At the very end of Mike Barnes’ THR obituary for Murray Weissman, a USC journalism grad who went on to essentially invent the craft of Oscar whispering PR, there is mention of a minor professional blemish. Weissman died Monday at age 90, just a few days after his birthday.
In 2003, under the guise of promoting Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, Weissman put words into Academy Award-winning director Robert Wise’s mouth, penning a column that was published under Wise’s name in the Los Angeles Daily News and Long Beach Press-Telegram, and then reprinted as an ad in trade publications.
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