Maxim Fires Blurb Whore Peter Hammond
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
PANNED, CANNED Hammond
Hiring OK! magazine Ruth Hilton as his West Coast editor wasn't the only housecleaning move newly installed Maxim EIC Jim Kaminsky made this weekend: According to sources, the lad mag's PR shill-[expletive]-film critic Peter Hammond, who never met a BRAVURA PIECE OF FILMMAKING! that didn't leave him BREATHLESS!, has been canned.
Hammond, as has been noted elsewhere, was pretty much the definition of a "tool" in his capacity at Maxim, where he continually gave universally decried flicks glowing reviews in order to get his name splashed across newspaper ads. (Of 2007 Jennifer Lopez-Marc Anthony abomination El Cantante, which received a 23 percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes, Hammond writes, "It's hot stuff! Lopez and Anthony set off fireworks.")
A rep for the lad mag confirmed that Hammond was no longer with the magazine. At least studios with crappy product to push still have noted Rolling Stone blurb [expletive] Peter Travers to rely on.
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