Pat Kingsley

And because I was known as an expert in write-arounds, or stories in which you don't have the cooperation of your central figure, they asked me to do Gere.

And the first thing that I did was call his PR person, who was a very, very famous Hollywood flack named Pat Kingsley.

And I think I never even got a response.

but I knew where Richard lived.

He lived right around the corner from me.

So a day or two later, I typed up a letter to him and I walked it around the corner and I dropped it for this doorman.

Later that day or early the next, I got an outraged call from Pat Kingsley.

How dare you contact my client? At which point I explained to her that I worked for Esquire, not for her.