Shamless Self-Promotion
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Dr. Phil has taken blatant self-promotion to a whole new sneaky frontier. It's bad enough that the T-V talker constantly plugs his books on his show. He's also branched out to primetime specials and even offers advice to daters on Match.com. But the self-promotion fest on yesterday's show was just outrageous. The topic: people with strange phobias. The first guest was a woman who had a fear of scary movies. How convenient. Dr. Phil is playing a tiny role in Scary Movie 4. It was the perfect opportunity for him to plug the movie under the guise of helping a guest. Yes, he took advantage of HER phobia to plug HIS movie. First, he showed his short roll in the movie. Then, he showed about five minutes of behind the scenes footage from his acting stint saying it was all to show the woman that movies aren't all that scary. Right. The icing on the promotional cake: he ended the segment by telling his audience to run out and see the movie, but "not because I'm in it." Okay, Dr. Phil.
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