David Wallace has been an active journalist on the
national, Colorado, and Southern California scene for many
years.
For the decade of the 1980s, he was the National
Correspondent for People Weekly, reporting most of their Hollywood
celebrity cover stories including many exclusive “scoops” for the
multi-million circulation magazine. Among them was the first
interview with Robert Wagner and Jill St. John after Natalie Wood's
tragic death, and Mel Gibson's first major interview with U.S.
media (which became the first of People's celebrated “Sexiest Man
Alive” series). He also represented columnist Liz Smith on the West
Coast.
In the past, Wallace also wrote extensively for The
Denver Post; the Los Angeles Times (primarily entertainment
features); Ladies Home Journal; Life; and, from 1995 until 2003,
for Colorado Homes & Lifestyles magazine (more than 150
features on home design, decoration, art, travel, and lifestyle
plus a regular car column). He also is a recognized classical music
critic.
Before his present writing activities, Wallace
co-founded New York's Gifford/Wallace publicity and public
relations firm, and subsequently founded his own associated firm in
Hollywood.
In New York, Gifford/Wallace represented the hugely
successful rock musical “Hair” (eventually – with Wallace's
continuing association after his move to California – for its
entire 10-year run). The firm, hailed by Esquire as “suavely hip,”
also represented many other Braodway and Off-Broadway theatrical
productions, including the long-running hit “Your Own Thing”; the
Fillmore East (the late Bill Graham's famed rock music palace); the
Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park; American Ballet Theatre
(national representation); Cue magazine; restaurants including the
now-legendary Le Mistral and The Ground Floor (CBS chairman William
Paley's personal restaurant project); plus numerous personalities
including “Hair” producer Michael Butler.
Among Wallace's clients after his move to Hollywood
were the California 500 (soon to be the biggest sports event in the
West); 20th Century Fox-TV; KLOS-FM (it became Los Angeles' major
rock music station); The New York Times Publishing Company; “Hair”;
one of the largest art galleries in America (in Santa Fe, NM); and
the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.
