Karl Williams, the longtime Paramount Pictures publicist who was integral in campaigns for the studio’s Transformers, Iron Man, Star Trek, Indiana Jones and other franchises, died Sunday of liver complications at Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, IL.
He was 52.For those like me who worked with Karl, he was a hysterically funny, good-guy, cinema savant and ultimate fanboy; a trailblazer in digital PR before any studio employed such experienced flacks in the current Twitter/YouTube/Facebook/Snapchat obsessed-promo era.
For reporters, he was the face of the studio he worked with, notably Paramount where he worked a bulk of his career. And for those who annually spent time with Karl at Burning Man, he was that groovy guy who ran camp.Even when
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