Opportunistic ways, celeb arm's length, milking publicity

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Knowing Mallika Sherawat's opportunistic ways, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Deepika Padukone had kept her far, faaaaaaaaar away from their celeb arm's length at Cannes. Milking publicity out of super photo ops, comes easy to MS.
Reportedly, the 'Hissss' star had shelled out a fancy amount to a lensman to go click happy whenever she posed or shook hands with any A lister.

Source : http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news-detail/87664/Royal-Ignore-Mally-Bags-Hilton-Snub.html

Mr Wordy · Accepted Answer

"opportunistic ways" = tendency to behave in an http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opportunistic manner.

"arm's length" = literally, the distance that one can reach with one's arm; figuratively, not too close, a reasonable distance away. "celeb" is informal for "celebrity".

"milking publicity" = exploiting any opportunity for publicity.

Avangi · Answer

User_gary had kept her far, faar away from their celeb arm's length at Cannes.

This is confusing to me. Are you sure you're not missing a word or two?
Is MS a "celeb" or a publicity agent?
"Arm's length" doesn't seem to comport with "far, faar away."
The sentence makes no sense, even for low quality journalism.

Okay, I checked your reference. It still makes no sense.
I get the idea that A R B and D P kept MS far away from [Paris Hilton?].
But it's still no kind of a sentence.

User_gary · Answer

Thank you all. I almost got it.

@Avangi
I could understand it as "All celebrities kept MS(Malika Sherawat) far away from them so that she could take advantage of their celebrity status to get publicity of herself".

Mr Wordy · Answer

User_gary
I could understand it as "All celebrities kept MS(Malika Sherawat) far away from them so that she could take advantage of their celebrity status to get publicity of herself".

I hope you mean "couldn't take advantage"? With that correction, that's exactly how I understand it:

ARB and DP know all about MS's opportunistic ways (like how she milks publicity from photo opportunities and pays photographers to take picture of her with A-list stars). Therefore, they keep well away from her, so as not to get taken advantage of for that purpose.

User_gary · Answer

Thanks Mr. Wordy. Yes I intended "couldn't", it was a typo.

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