The Guardian published a story this weekend about a member of a Romanian forgery ring being arrested after he tried to pass himself off as Robert De Niro during a roadside check.   This was a week after a story was published about a group of Swedish tourists chasing Ricky Gervais down the street in Hollywood thinking he was DeNiro.   According to inside Hollywood sources, the two seemingly unconnected events have sent actor Steven Seagal spiraling into a rage; sources say the “Under Siege” actor was overheard screaming at his publicist, “DeNiro hasn’t done an interview in years but he’s in the news – that means HIS publicist is doing his job!  I don’t care how you do it, I want some of this PR – go on, find a bankrupt German town and give them ten grand to put a statue of me in the town square, and get it in the news!  Leak a rumor that I’ve fathered every kid in some village in Eskimo-land.   Name a disease after me – a hurricane –how the hell did Dolly Parton get that? — but make it freaking happen!”   Be warned, readers – if you hear about a guy climbing the Eiffel Tower while wearing a “Steven Seagal Rules” t-shirt, or two guys in Steven Seagal Halloween masks arrested in the men’s room at the Will Rogers Memorial Park restroom, it could be the work of a PR firm. 

The Guardian,, Monsters & Critics

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