There are very few people who deserve some measure of fame for appearing on reality TV. Johnny Weir, for one, clearly. And also New York fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone. So here's a very limited (and slightly rough) transcript of Bravo's press conference call today, in anticipation of her reality show "Kell on Earth" next month. (See also: how your tabloid sausage quotes get made!) READ MORE

This profile of PR man Matthew Hiltzik today-and Hiltzik's relationship with his client Glenn Beck-is a fascinating thing. Hiltzik leapfrogged from Miramax to the New York office of Freud Communications to a time when he went missing in Florida for a while to his own firm. Along the way, he worked with Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric. Well. Hiltzik has, let us call it, a style that is remarkable. His technique consists of actually not being able to stop talking. He will call you on the phone and eventually you just have to hang up on him. He says now that he represents Couric and Annie Leibovitz and Alec Baldwin, but I don't think that's entirely accurate; actually, other people at Freud handled Baldwin during the time he needed "crisis management," and I believe they still do. (Baldwin is in fact still listed as being handled by Freud on Who Represents.) For another thing, Freud Communication's disentanglement with Hiltzik was intense. The home office in London actually could not get him to leave the office. As far as Katie Couric goes? Hiltzik's interventions with the press drove Couric's CBS people to distraction and even rage. Don Imus, who he also calls a client, was in crisis management at Freud as well. [Update: Apparently Baldwin and Don Imus actually did follow Hiltzik, after Freud! And Imus is, like Beck was, a client of Hiltzik's father.] Anyway, fascinating guy!

"Hollywood publicists are so used to journalists kowtowing to their every request that they no longer understand what journalism actually is." I bring that up because I just always like hearing people say that out loud! So yes, this was even the case when John Ortved was writing about 'The Simpsons' for Vanity Fair.

Slate's Jonah Weiner writes a good piece about why music magazines are dying. Part of the problem is what they like to call "access": "When I profiled Beyoncé for a 2006 Blender cover story, I was granted one hour to interview her and one hour to observe her at a video shoot. I stayed on the set for three hours, hoping to wring some lively detail from the mundane proceedings, until a bodyguard showed me the door. Beyoncé's mother, Tina, gave me a warm goodbye, then called a publicist to chew her out for letting me hang around so long and accused me of 'going through Beyoncé's underwear.' (I'd quizzed a seamstress about a pair of hot pants she was mending.)"

AMC brought out the cast of Mad Men last night in L.A. (well, PASADENA) for the Television Critics Association hoo-ha. There was much Jon Hamm chasing (obvs), which did not go well, as handlers kept yanking him away. But things apparently got worse? Reports the LA Times: "There was nothing else to do but whine to a colleague from another major newspaper who then shared that while he was interviewing one of Hamm's costars, he was interrupted by a publicist who resorted to violence to end that interview. She had the nerve to strike him in the back!" I knew the publicists were out of control-but I do believe this is the first non-paparazzo celebrity entertainment publicist-instigated violence incident! Also: who? Who hit whom? What!

Dear ID PR professional publicity service representatives, I'm quite sorry that I referred to your staff as "girls." I was actually reeling at the moment, because one of you popped on the phone and interrupted your client mid-sentence, your Bernie-Madoff-victim client Kyra Sedgwick that I was talking to on the day Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. That reflexive, unacknowledged, totally random sexism on my part was realy uncalled for! Next time I will aim for "ladies" or even higher, like "women" or "people." Also some of you somewhere are probably men even! (Or boys, I guess.) Sorry! I guess at least I didn't go all Carol Rosenberg on you. Again: sorry!

There is no way this is true. This year, says the New York Observer, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg News are actually co-hosting an afterparty for the White House Correspondent's Dinner. (In previous years, they've been "competing" parties. Which is to say, one was at an embassy, the other was at Chris Hitchen's not-so-big apartment.) According to Vanity Fair's publicist Beth Kseniak, "the entire guest list will be trimmed to just 200 people." Highly unlikely!