Nuff respect goes out to John Brown, the eponymous chief executive,
who appeared on Ruby Wax Meets ... a couple of weeks ago.
Having to compete with the shy and retiring host, as well as former
Rolling Stones playthings Anita Pallenburg and Marianne Faithful, John
really pushed it to the edge with a tale of his wildest moments.
The king of contract publishing told of his young pup job as a chauffeur
in New York where he had - shock of shocks - ferried around members of
ultra-butch band, the Village People. Rock on, John.
The Second World War in Colour has been a vivid success for Carlton,
with the critics heaping praise on the three-part series. Sam Taylor of
The Observer said it should go ’straight on the national
curriculum’.
But perhaps the most interested viewer was a little beyond school
age.
Mr Martell - formerly Captain Alexander Naglovsky - spotted himself in
the promotional poster and contacted Carlton. Given that Hotcakes can’t
recognise herself in the last batch of Evening Out With ... photos (you
were upside down in most of them - Ed), we congratulate Martell on his
eagle eyes - especially as he must have been black and white back
then.
Last week a little-known publishing house called Yellow Man bought
several games magazines from receiver-bound Rapide Publishing. Hotcakes
called Yellow Man to discover the pedigree of this company. ’We have a
number of ventures in a number of media,’ explained Yellow Man boss Hugh
Gollner, helpfully. So what of Gollner’s own background? ’I was at IDG
and did a brief stint at Emap Images,’ he said. A quick check with Emap
revealed that his stint there was truly brief. One staffer remembered it
as ’about three weeks’, another said it was ’more like three days’.
Apparently he found life at Emap Images ’too stressful’ - strange
decision to set up his own company then.
