{"id":337271,"date":"2015-03-27T01:47:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=337271"},"modified":"2015-03-27T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T22:15:50","slug":"talent-agency-wants-matt-mcconaughey-speaking-fee-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=337271","title":{"rendered":"Talent Agency Wants Matt McConaughey Speaking Fee Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Matthew-McConaughey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Matthew-McConaughey-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew-McConaughey\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-337272\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A celebrity booking agency is saying it&#8217;s not all right, all right, all right to make public how much the University of Houston is paying actor Matthew McConaughey, a former Longview resident, to speak at the school&#8217;s May commencement ceremony. The university has declined to release the information because its contract with Celebrity Talent International includes a confidentiality clause. The school asked the Texas attorney general&#8217;s office to issue an opinion on whether such information can be kept private. The Houston Chronicle reports Celebrity Talent International President Glenn Richardson sent a March 9 letter to the attorney general&#8217;s office, saying payment and other details in McConaughey&#8217;s contract are a trade secret. Richardson also wrote that a reporter could use the information to create &#8220;unfair negatives online and take things out of context.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A celebrity booking agency is saying it&#8217;s not all right, all right, all right to make public how much the University of Houston is paying actor Matthew McConaughey, a former Longview resident, to speak at the school&#8217;s May commencement ceremony. The university has declined to release the information because its contract with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=337271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talent Agency Wants Matt McConaughey Speaking Fee Secret<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 17:16:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337285,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337271\/revisions\/337285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}