The Corner Office: He Did It
… The publicist [for the book was] Michael Wright …. It was his strategy to keep the Goldmans off of television until [“The Oprah Winfrey Show”]. … So he sent out me and other surrogates to deal with the media and to keep [the interest] going, and also to get Denise Brown to say basically everything she would ever say and actually run out of things to say. Denise Brown, during this whole time, started a petition [to stop the publication of the book] and was on television everywhere, but everyone got tired of her. She was, like, whining. … She claimed she wasn’t going to go on “Oprah” and then at the last minute changed her mind. She did a separate interview; she didn’t have the guts to sit with the Goldmans [on Oprah]. She was a total flop on that show. … But the Goldmans were brilliant …. They were very authentic. That helped a lot.