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March 29, 2006 in Healthcare PR, Media Orchard by Scott Baradell
Um, Couldn’t That Cause a Heart Attack?

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Add the Cardiovascular Research Foundation to the list of organizations we won’t work for. Not cuz we’re above the work — we’d just have no idea what to tell them.

The scoop:

NEW YORK — A charity foundation’s former accountant, accused of embezzling heart disease research funds to pay an Ohio dominatrix to beat him, pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand larceny and admitted that he stole more than $237,000.

Abraham Alexander, 45, of East Meadow, N.Y., admitted he stole the money from the Cardiovascular Research Foundation between Nov. 2, 2003, and April 20, 2005, by using company credit cards and writing checks to himself…

At least $11,000 stolen by Alexander, who was an accounts payable executive, went to pay Through the Looking Glass, an online company run by Columbus-based dominatrix, Lady Sage, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s Robert Morgenthau’s office…

Lady Sage’s Web site features numerous photographs of the 43-year-old pain professional in a leather, metal-studded thong and bra, high-heeled lace-up boots, a leather dress and in what appears to be a red latex rubber evening dress.

Lady Sage says on her Web site she charges $250 an hour for her services and $1,500 for eight hours. She says the client pays her expenses if she has to travel for a meet-and-beat session.

On the site, she declares, “Professional domination sessions are about good people having great fun.” And, “I love nothing more than coaxing you to accept more pain and torment for my pleasure. I love holding your very soul in my hands.”

If it’s alright with you, we’d rather just watch the Sharon Stone video and think really hard that Strumpette isn’t Brian Connolly.

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March 29, 2006 in Media Orchard, Public Relations by Scott Baradell
Does Sharon Stone Work for Fleishman-Hillard?

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Oh, great. Like we don’t have enough problems without Sharon Stone playing a larcenous PR exec on Showtime’s Huff. Here’s how she’s described in the press release:

Stone will portray a high-powered Los Angeles public relations executive who retains HUFF’s (Hank Azaria) best friend and attorney Russell (Oliver Platt) after an audit reveals she has grossly over-billed her government clients. The cheated clients all hold political stances that she detests.

Sounds more noble than what Fleishman did in L.A., we guess.

Whatever. Here’s Sharon getting completely naked at age 48 in the unedited Basic Instinct 2 trailer, if you can bear to watch. (We stuck it out.) Um … it’s not safe for work.

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March 29, 2006 in Celebrity, Media Orchard by Scott Baradell
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March 28, 2006 in Media Orchard, Public Relations by Scott Baradell
Brian Connolly Biography

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We didn’t know much about Brian Connolly, who has been accused — falsely, according to Brian — of being Strumpette.

So we Googled him.

Here’s some info. Official bio, from his site:

Brian Connolly is one of the founders of the Literati Group.

Brian is a mathematician turned poet, a combination that makes him a particularly passionate and effective client advocate. He’s accomplished at articulating models and relationships in dynamic business situations. He’s also skilled at engineering creative communications strategies that optimize outcomes.

With more than 20 years in marketing communication, Brian has provided communications counsel to clients ranging from business service firms to consumer companies. He has provided strategic and tactical support to major brands such as Sears, McDonald’s Corporation, Coopers & Lybrand and T.Rowe Price, to name a few.

In the last 10 years his primary focus has been in the technology sector. His client portfolio has included IT management firms and internet security management companies, as well as companies involved with enterprise software, supply chain management and application development. As Senior Vice President and head of the Technology Practice in the Chicago office at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, he was a recognized leader in the Practice globally. At the time, Ogilvy was the #1 firm in Tech communications internationally.

Brian’s career also includes senior management positions at several nationally recognized communications firms including Cone Communications/Boston, and Manning, Selvage & Lee/Chicago.

Throughout his career, Brian has always pushed the envelope to expand the depth and breathe of communications services. He launched a successful competitive intelligence firm. He was also a principal of a company offering a web platform that facilitates marketing communications automation and brand management.

Brian was on the board of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Internet Professionals. He was also a member of the executive committee of KnockNOW.

Contact: phone 312.482.9229, e-mail connolly@literatigroup.com

Here’s some other info about Brian: He was involved in a big stink with the open-source community a while back — details here.

He’s also posted comments on Steve Rubel’s blog from time to time.

The attached pic, we believe, is of Brian Connolly. It was on the Literati Group Web site.

That’s all we know, for now.

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March 28, 2006 in Media Orchard, Public Relations by Scott Baradell
Strumpette Is Brian Connolly

According to two reliable sources, including Mike. The other source prefers to remain anonymous.

Nail, meet coffin. (We love that line. Thanks, Your Logo Here.)

Give it up, Brian.

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