TEAM COSBY’S MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

Daily Beast ^ | 12/18/14 | Lloyd Grove

[BunnySlippers]

“I’ve been in contact with Cosby’s team for about three and a half weeks and I got the feeling that there was a lot of internal turmoil,” said Stacy Brown, the freelancer who got the brief exclusive interview with the comedian, simply by dialing his home number in Massachusetts, and wrote it for the New York Post.

“When you talk to them, you get the distinct impression that there are some who really wanted him to talk and other people who were adamantly opposed to him talking to the media. It just seems like there’s this huge war going on inside the Cosby camp about what he should and should not do.”

Although it’s impossible to know precisely what’s happening inside beleaguered Team Cosby, which is attempting to present a united front despite internal differences of opinion, it’s revealing that New York-based entertainment publicist Matthew Hiltzik, who was recruited by Singer to advise the Cosby family, dropped out recently after just a few weeks, apparently convinced, according to a source, that there were so many competing voices offering conflicting tactical advice that he couldn’t be effective. Hiltzik declined to comment.

[BunnySlippers]

A good article and it covers multiple points.

The tiny bit I have included does not do the article justice.

[libstripper]

Agreed; an excellent article. The message I get from it is Cosby has a first class team of legal and PR Pit Bulls and that team can’t seem to do much for him. From that it looks to me that he’s probably guilty.

[BunnySlippers]

I think the Barbara Walters think awaits Bill as the author hypothicized ...or perhaps not.

I can’t figure a punishment ...

[nascarnation]

The Cos lives in Taxachusetts?

Sounds like he also needs some domicile advice on income and death taxes.

[CGASMIA68]

Me thinks Cosby is done

[BunnySlippers]

He and his wife bought a massive home (not to my taste) but long ago, and a lot cheaper.

[nascarnation]

Of course unless you see the tax returns, you never know for sure where their legal residence is. I know a lot of New Yorkers are Floridians when they die....

[BunnySlippers]

A good article about his behind the scenes team ...

[Alex Murphy]

....team leaders Martin D. Singer and John P. Schmitt—Bill Cosby’s longtime attorneys in Century City, Calif., and midtown Manhattan, respectively—and David Brokaw, his loyal personal publicist in Beverly Hills, soldier on. Brokaw, who has handled PR for celebrities ranging from Tony Orlando to Roseanne Barr to troubled televangelist Jim Bakker, has represented Cosby—his most important client—since 1974, “through sometimes tragic and trying times,” says his official bio on the Brokaw Company’s website.

Brokaw would have been the person responsible for changing Cosby's 1970s "Playboy" image into the 1980s "America's Dad" image starting with the Himself tour and leading into The Cosby Show.

[TChad]

“Maybe this sounds bizarre,” said Cosby interviewer Stacy Brown, “but I do believe that at some point, sooner rather than later, they will hold some sort of news conference and that Bill and Camille will sit down with Barbara Walters.”

Remember that after Bill and Camille Cosby's son Ennis was killed by a Ukrainian immigrant in 1997, Camille Cosby said "I believe America taught our son's killer to hate African-Americans."

I can't wait to hear Bill tearfully explain to Barbara Walters how white racism made him rape women.

[Birdsbane]

“Me thinks Cosby is done”

The “Cos” has scre(uu)ed the proverbial pooch more times than anyone could possibly imagine and the results have not been puppies. What he got more resembles hellhounds.