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Pill bottles: the height of cool
—Posted by Mae Anderson |
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Published on April 29, 2005 | Permalink
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You, too, can be in an iPod ad (pun not intended)
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 29, 2005 | Permalink
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Search is so hot, Tony Danza wants in!
—Posted by Brian Morrissey |
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Published on April 29, 2005 | Permalink
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Bill Cosby a Cos to believe in
—Posted by Deanna Zammit Photo credit: PR Newswire Photo Service |
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Published on April 29, 2005 | Permalink
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Your chance to be Jerry Springer for a day
—Posted by Kathleen Sampey |
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Published on April 28, 2005 | Permalink
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Earbuds are over
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 28, 2005 | Permalink
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Stampeding buffalo prove Levi's spot wasn't a fantasy
—Posted by Andrew McMains |
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Published on April 28, 2005 | Permalink
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Does Mattel know from California?
—Posted by Celeste Ward Photo credit: Mattel |
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Published on April 28, 2005 | Permalink
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Exclusive photo from the Donny-brook!
The picture ain’t pretty, but neither is the plight of the art director, Jeison Rodriguez, who admitted to AdFreak that while he “should have been reprimanded,” being fired seemed a bit much. A 10-year Deutsch vet, Rodriguez sounded positively wistful, recalling the days when he perceived Donny as “always being able to look at himself and laugh.” Now here’s the follow-up: It seems e-mail, the very thing that got Rodriguez in hot water, is also getting him out of it—and leading to further distribution of the Donny pics. The firing incident, which actually dates back to late January, stimulated Rodriguez’s friend Mark Koelfgen to send around an e-mail to help his friend get a new job, with the offensive pics attached! Koelfgen, who also once worked at Deutsch, said of the pictures, “Hold up your hand if you didn’t go through a Billy Ray Cyrus stage.” Fortunately for Rodriguez, the e-mail campaign worked. (He now has a freelance gig.) Strangely the e-mail, having made the rounds throughout the ad industry, has tapped into not only empathy for Rodriguez, but also a weird dynamic in which at least one agency thought about riding Donny’s coattails for its own gain. Rodriguez told us that in addition to hearing from Crispin’s Bogusky and BBDO’s Eric Silver, he also got an offer from Modernista! in Boston to bankroll his job search and “put some sort of publicity thing in the trades.” Rodriguez declined; Modernista! could not be reached for comment. Below are partial contents of Koelfgen’s e-mail, though we're not vouching for this version of how the pictures got into the art director's hands. We hear he got them off the company server. It’s a poem, of sorts: Today my friend Jeison Rodriguez was abruptly fired. Jeison wasn't fired for incompetence. I worked for Donny. I can't speak for anybody else. It was probably stupid for Jeison to have done this. I'll hop off my soapbox now. And get to the point: if you need a talented freelance AD in the NYC area --or know somebody Thanks, mk! —Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 27, 2005 | Permalink
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Did I just see the Aflac duck get electrocuted?
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 27, 2005 | Permalink
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Why are cows planning to invade New York?
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 27, 2005 | Permalink
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TV makes you smarter, so don't bother reading this
—Posted by Aaron Baar |
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Published on April 27, 2005 | Permalink
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Happy slapping a great ad opportunity
—Posted by Steve McClellan |
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Published on April 26, 2005 | Permalink
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Maybe Microsoft should make the iLoo
—Posted by Brian Morrissey |
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Published on April 26, 2005 | Permalink
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Philadelphia: Most depressed place on U.S. soil
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Published on April 26, 2005 | Permalink
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Anyone see 'Making It Big'?
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Published on April 26, 2005 | Permalink
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Coming to the defense of Rottweilers
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Published on April 26, 2005 | Permalink
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Don't blame it on the Dell dude
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 25, 2005 | Permalink
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A footnote (fingernote?) on the Wendy's case
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 25, 2005 | Permalink
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Spice Hunter has a cow
—Posted by Celeste Ward |
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Published on April 22, 2005 | Permalink
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Get well soon, Paula Abdul
—Posted by Deanna Zammit |
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Published on April 22, 2005 | Permalink
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Tom Waits udders a complaint about an Opel ad
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 22, 2005 | Permalink
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KFC puts the fried back in "F"
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor |
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Published on April 21, 2005 | Permalink
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At least it’s not a Spongmonkey card
—Posted by Lisa van der Pool |
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Published on April 21, 2005 | Permalink
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A boomlet of baby Benedicts?
—Posted by Mark Dolliver Photo: Arturo/Mari/Agence France Presse/Newscom |
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Published on April 20, 2005 | Permalink
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PETA

It turns out that the ‘F’ in KFC is going to stand for fried again. Officials at the fast-food chain have come to this stunning conclusion as in their latest attempt to reconfigure the restaurant around contemporary tastes, whatever those are. KFC will “banner the name” Kentucky Fried Chicken, according to this 
