They don't understand each other, fo' shizzle
Apparently, the language barrier that separated Lee Iacocca and Snoop Dogg is even vaster than we’d been led to believe. In an interview in this month’s Fortune, the former Chrysler CEO tells Alex Taylor III about his experience last year shooting a Chrysler spot with Snoop. (Sorry, we haven't found a link to it yet.) Says Iacocca, “When I did those commercials for Chrysler last year, they gave me five million bucks, which I donated to the [diabetes] foundation. I spent 24 hours with Snoop Dogg and didn’t understand a word he said to me the whole time.” If you’ve been watching this story closely, you know that in this August 2005 piece, Iacocca claims to have not understood only half of what the rapper said.
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor
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They paid that dinosaur $5 mil? How many New Yorkers did they have to sell to make up for that? Another brilliant marketing move by Mr. Topolewski. Thank God Lubars put that situation out of its misery.
Posted by: ad_scribe | Jun 13, 2006 4:05:10 PM
I never understood a word Lee Iacocca said. Yes, I loved the Mustang, but he always sounded like Rich Little doing an imitation of Ed McMahon doing an imitation of George Burns.
Posted by: AndyWilliamsAndTheBear | Jun 20, 2006 11:26:34 AM
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