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The senior publicist at PMK/HBH was let go by the actress after 15 years. That’s right, 15 years! Sure, like it’s Olim’s fault that Nicole Kidman is box office poison (because she has zero charisma onscreen: women don’t like her and men think she’s sexless). “For years Catherine gave her all to this woman, including orchestrating Kidman’s victorious Oscar campaign during her heydey and was slavishly devoted to her,” a PR source emails me. “Now that the bloom is off Kidman’s career, Olim got thrown to the ground. Hollywood is a tough business.” Kidman has moved on to Leslee Dart at 42 West. Olim still handles Glenn Close, Ed Harris, Donald Sutherland, Legendary Pictures, and others.
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Catherine is terrific. I had one of her clients star in something and she handled him and the press we needed incredibly well. Nicole Kidmans loss for sure.
You nailed it! “..zero charisma,, sexless” and thinking to kill the messenger will help the career. Spineless, nuevo riche’ , tactless, plastic. But then again, has she done anything recently? or anything in the can for release?
Nikki..not a fan of Ms Kidman are we;-)
Seems your bashing of her has no limits! Sheesh! How about supporting your own gender in the land of ‘Man & Big Ego only’ ?
C’mon now! She is alright. She has appeared in some good movies that unfortunately, not for the massess.
There is nothing wrong in changing one’s agent is there? I mean, not every married couple live happy ever-after you know.
Kidman should fire her plastic surgeon, not her publicist-Nicole looks like she had been embalmed! And her acting is certainly post-mortem.
Next up – Lose Kevin Huvane. He’s the one who’s wrecking her career. I don’t get what’s so great about him. He was also responsible for that horrible movie RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, and now he’s put Julia Roberts with that horrible director of his in EAT PRAY LOVE. Which is my exact advice to his clients. Eat crow, Pray that he still Loves you or he’ll never call you back!
From someone who works with him but wishes she didn’t.
“Nicole Kidman has zero charisma onscreen because women don’t like her and men think she’s sexless.”
Stay classy, Nikki.
That sucks for Olim, but you can’t really blame Kidman.
Deserved or not, she’s taken a beating from the press over the last few years and is now considered box office poison.
Why shouldn’t she make a change?
And…”men think she’s sexless”. Who, gay men?
Where do you get this stuff? Women like Kidman. She’s one of the few actresses (and actors) who has some humility and honesty and is not totally uncouth. She also doesn’t do the usual self-congratulatory exploitative BS most other actresses participate in. Who do you favor? Jolie? LOL.
For the record, I’m a man and I don’t find her sexless.
PMK/HBH & Olim will survive this.
Kidman will end up starring in a TV series sometime around 2010 or 2011.
It’s that or oblivion for her!
Her movie career is toast!
Catherine is a master of the biz and I don’t think 42 West can do anything to fix up the box office rut that Nicole has been in. That is a larger problem and not at all a reflection on the work Catherine has done. She dots her “I”s and crosses her “T”s like few others and Nicole was lucky to have her.
Sounds like someone here has an axe to grind. Wonder what that’s about?
Cry me a river.Olim knew the business she got into.
Catherine Olim is a very good publicist and so is Leslie Dart. Fifteen years is a long time — longer than most Hollywood relationships — and shows loyalty. Where is it written that an actress must stay with a publicist until death do they part? Why so harsh on this girl?
What a bizarre move. I’m going to maybe be a bit unpopular and say that as far as aggressive heft Dart has more game than Olim, but as far as Kidman goes, who really cares?
Olim has continually pushed her (publicity wise) into a totally undeserved status…i.e. getting her a Vogue cover for the completely unanticipated Australia.
If Kidman seriously thinks that career-wise a change in publicist is the answer, she’s in for a big surprise.
Sorry to be a mean, but the “box office” tittle tattle that surrounds her project-wise is not b/c people think she has the wrong publicist.
Nicole has the personality of wet cardboard onscreen and costs the studios just as much as they make off her boring films where her face is often frozen solid. I don’t think at this point that Catherine’s losing too much because Kidman ain’t making much. Hardly a loss. Besides, Catherine needed a break after putting up with her through the Cruise/Scientology years.
It’s hardly Olim’s fault for bad career choices. If NK does one more remake I’ll scream!
I sense Kidman is finally doing the right thing. Have you seen her recently? Totally unbotox and looking more natural than she has in over the last ten years. If Olim was so good, Kidman would have got the public perception of her years ago. Instead Olim has been protecting her client from all that.
This is not the end of Kidman….it’s the beginning.
If Kidman is such a cold fish and lost cause then anyone who worked as her publicist all these years would be a fool, now wouldn’t they?
Looking under her wig, nothing is going on for Nicole..period.
I have never seen any actress ever go from white hot to DOA so fast with no real explanation. Give it up for now, she has to go away and try again after re-inventing herself.
nikki i feel nicole is being punished for doing independent cinema. if you look at her track record since (or including) the hours it’s clear her focus has been taking risks with interesting directors. sure, some have worked better than others, but i don’t believe for her it’s about “being at the top of the game” nor getting 20 mil for her next film. i still feel she is unrivalled in her acting ability compared to all the current crop, and think she’ll last longer this way as well.
All of these nasty comments about Nicole Kidman. Why does everyone dislike her so much!?
It sounds like she’s got some bad p.r.! Maybe this is a good change!
Besides, when has acting ability ever been reflected in the box office?
Very good move. Good for Nicole. Olim is a bad publicist.
meow!
When she’s interviewed she seems really nice. (Nicole) When she’s in a movie, I’m almost repelled by her. There’s some sort of disconnect going on. She needs to learn to relax on screen or something. She needs to get dirtied up a bit. She should go work in a refugee camp for a year and get rid of that hollywood gloss. Then come back to film. I’d give the same advice to many of the male so called “stars”. They need to go join the army or work on a fishing boat in alaska (with Sarah Palin?) for a year. It’ll mature them, if they survive. None of the actors working in film today have that “I’ve lived life look”. They all look and act like pampered twits and Americans aren’t putting up with that anymore.