Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

The beauty shot in automotive advertising has become almost clich . But it takes on a different, refreshingly charming dimension in "Shoeshine," a :30 for the Volkswagen Passat out of DDB Needham Worldwide, Düsseldorf. A street-smart youngster-shoeshine kit in hand-knows exactly...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

Vince and Larry, the plastic crash-test dummies of past seat belt PSA efforts, have taken a backseat to live actors in the latest campaign for the Transportation Dept. and the Ad Council out of Leo Burnett Co., Chicago. The new PSA takes a realistic tack to pound home its...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

Bicoastal RSA USA has hired new Midwest rep Chris Karabas of Chicago-based Creative Management Partners (CMP), and East Coast reps Andrea Marcucci and Helen Blatt of CMP, New York....New York-based Big Wave Music has hired John Manning for national representation....Big Chair...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

CLIENT

General Motors/Oldsmobile.

PRODUCTION CO.

Orbit Productions, Hollywood. Danny Weisberg, director; Russell Swanson, DP; Lee Nelson, executive producer; Amy Peck, producer. Shot on location.

AGENCY

Leo Burnett Co., Chicago. Charley...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

CLIENT

Nike.

PRODUCTION CO.

radical.media, London. Ralf Schmerberg, director; Franz Lustig, DP; Guy Pechard, executive producer/producer. Shot on location.

AGENCY

Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore. Hal Curtis and Chuck McBride, creative...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

This spec :60 opens on a handsome couple-a man and a woman-as they leave a restaurant and climb into his late model sports car. There's clearly a chemistry building between the two but the escalating romantic mood is abruptly shattered by wailing police sirens. A moment later,...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

ly sent its $1.77 trillion budget to Congress. One line of the budget would require free, over-the-air broadcasters to pay a yearly $200 million fee to fund various spending items in the budget. The analog spectrum fee comes at the worst of all-possible times. Broadcasters are currently...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

Bozell Worldwide, Southfield, Mich., has promoted Lisa Nagno from producer to senior producer and has added Gary Johnston as associate creative director. Johnston had been creative director/senior VP at Ammirati Puris Lintas, New York.

AAA

Oasis Advertising, New York, has named...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

5 Years Ago

FEBRUARY 19, 1994

Following a contract dispute, director Irvin Blitz has been ordered by the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, to continue directing through bicoastal Stiefel & Company because when Blitz, a tabletopper, departed the company for...

Friday, Feb. 19, 1999

THIRTY-NINE ART TEACH-ers from Chicagos public school system turned out for a January 22 seminar so that they would be better equipped to make their students aware of opportunities in the animation industry. The session was hosted by the Chicago Public Schools, in cooperation with Target Group...

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