Brains! Brains!
Published 9:29 pm Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Dawn of the publicity stunts: Two dozen zombies shuffled along the streets of New York on Tuesday and clambered over a taxi cab. The zombies, disheveled and drunkenly stumbling actors in ghost-white makeup, were hired by cable channel AMC to publicize its new television series, “The Walking Dead.”
The publicity stunt ended quickly when scores of New Yorkers eagerly drew their guns and threatened to recreate the final scenes from “Night of the Living Dead.”
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Coming next fall: “One and a Half Men”: Charlie Sheen of the sitcom “Two and a Half Men” was hospitalized Tuesday after security at a New York hotel called police to report Sheen was disorderly and had broken furniture in his room.
Sheen’s publicist explained that the disheveled and drunkenly stumbling actor had been hired by AMC to publicize its new zombie series.
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Do do that voodoo that you do: A radio show host in Cleveland has hired a witch doctor to cast a curse on basketball star LeBron James, who earlier this year snubbed the Cleveland Cavaliers and signed with the Miami Heat.
All we can say is good luck. We tried the same thing when Clay Bennett moved the Seattle Sonics to Oklahoma City in 2008, and he still hasn’t turned into a donkey.
