The Barrett Company, Book, TV and Film Publicity Firm, Marks 20th Birthday on Tuesday, September 6

Sept. 5, 2011 - PRLog -- Hollywood, CA  - -   Award winining book, TV and movie publicist Charlie Barrett marks today (6) the 20th birthday of his public relations/publicity firm, The Barrett Company
(www.thebarrettco.com), established in the film capital after Barrett's long association with NBC and "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."  Since its creation 20 years ago, TBC has gone on to represent best seller authors such as John Locke (www.donovancreed.com) for Amazon (www.amazon.com), Carla Malden, Emmy winning TV shows such as CBS' "The Amazing Race,"  Fox's "Cops"  and Bravo's
"Millionaire Matchmaker" as well as motion pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Joe Mantegna, Tatum  O'Neal, Sting, Mark Ruffalo and many other screen personalities.

"Today," remarked Barrett, "we are expanding into new forms of digital delivery on television such as Netflix's offering.  It is an exciting time to be involved with the revolution going on both in  digital publishing as well as  breakthroughs in TV and film platforms that are becoming increasingly popular."  

The Barrett Company opened its doors on September 6, 1991 representing a handful of clients including Larry O'Daly and his seminal comedy series on A&E, "An Evening at the Improv," followed by "Comedy on the Road" hosted by comic John Byner. TBC also represented "Cops" producers John Langly and Malcolm Barbour in those days as well as Ed McMahon and his popular "Star Search" series, which some TV critics claim is the forerunner to today's "American Idol."  Barrett opened TBC after serving as President of the TV department at Beverly Hills PR firm, Guttman & Pam.  From the 1980s to 1990, Barrett was the NBC network staff publicist for Mr. Johnny Carson and his "Tonight
Show."

Barrett joined NBC in 1979 after serving as a department editor of The Hollywood Reporter, preceded with  executive PR posts with Capitol Records, 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (New York), Elektra Records and Mercury Records where he publicized Rod Stewart, Buddy Miles and other artists on the label in the early 1970s.  He began his show biz media career as a staff writer for Billboard, basing in New York.  In the late 1960s upon his graduation from college - - Barrett joined The Associated Press in New Haven, CT as a broadcast news writer and also went on to work as a bureau chief for The Hartford TImes newspaper.  Barrett is a native of Connecticut.  His father Russ Barrett and uncle Carlisle Barrett were executives with Warner Brothers Studios  exhibitor division during the golden age of studio moviemaking.

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The Barrett Company is a Los Angeles-based media relations and publicity firm serving authors, filmmakers, celebrities and television producers seeking media coverage and consumer awareness in the marketplace. The 20-year old firm has served Oscar winning actors and productions (James Bond franchise) to Emmy Award winner TV shows such as "The Amazing Race" in addition to author John Locke, the first self-published author to sell 1 million books on Amazon's Kindle.