‘The Paperboy’ Promoters Can’t Handle Bad Press

Today in Incestuous PR Fail News: DC-based media relations company PR Collaborative invited Eddie Scarry of our sister blog FishbowlDC to a screening of the neo-noir film The Paperboy—and he didn’t much care for it!

The film, directed by controversial Precious mastermind Lee Daniels and starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron (?), received a bit of press earlier this summer for featuring a scene in which Kidman’s character pees on the High School Musical star in order to relieve his allergic reaction to a jellyfish sting—not weird at all, right?

Anyway, Scarry did not pull

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