You Can Quote Me!

Need some tinseltown nostalgia for the 25th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination Nov. 22? It’s available from Levine/Schneider Public Relations, which issued a press release aimed at getting a bit of ink for a few clients: “Some of Hollywood’s most prominent celebrities share their memories of where they were on that fateful day.”

Five of the firm’s 60 clients reveal their 1963 remembrances. “We’ve been getting calls for quotes on this event the past two months from Entertainment Tonight, People, Us, Time and the wire services,” founder Michael Levine told us.

Among the revelations: actor Lou Ferrigno’s father was painting a ceiling when he broke the news about JFK’s death to his seventh-grade son; actress Adrienne Barbeau was at the desk of the termite control company she was running; Fred Travalena was a trainee for a NYC paper company when he dreamed, just before JFK’s death, that the President was shot as he walked up the Capitol steps; Valerie Harper was rehearsing a satire on the First Family at the time and upon hearing the news exclaimed, “Oh my God. It’s Abraham Lincoln time.”

Levine added that his company also gets requests for celeb quotes connected to the anniversaries of the deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., among others.

“We try to match the celebrity with events that most shaped their lives,” said the publicist. “There’s a big demand for celebrity opinions on everything, so this isn’t in bad taste.”