Friday, Aug. 18, 2000

Chicago-based rep firm Nikki Weiss & Company has added partner/sales associate Karen Dixon....FinnSaxon Represents, Santa Monica and San Francisco, will handle West Coast representation for production house TAG Pictures, New York.... Compass Films, New York, has signed independent rep...

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

New York-headquartered commercial house Shooting Gallery Productions is in the process of launching a music video division….The New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE ) has elected its slate of officers set to serve two-year terms starting January 2001. Chris...

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

Happy scenes of kids being kids—climbing trees, picking up seashells, playing in the backyard—take a dramatic mood swing to unnerving and a bit frightening in "Live Forever," an American Cancer Society PSA directed by Ray Dillman of bicoastal Gartner, for Austin, Texas, agency GSD&M.

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Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

It's time for that feel-good Home Shopping Network-like experience in which a warm, loving TV hostess touts an amazing product, fields phone calls from satisfied customers and then closes the deal as evidenced by an ever-increasing number of "items sold."

However, this sales session takes...

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

The last time we saw Lee Dungaree's spokesdoll, Buddy Lee, he was riding the backs of wild animals and hobnobbing with celebrities. In the latest campaign out of Fallon, Minneapolis, for the denim retailer, the 12-inch man of action appears in a DJ contest and wins. Excellent!

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Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

Convergence is the buzz word du jour in media circles. But what does convergence mean for those of us who produce music and sound design? What happens when the public is armed with a digital television that allows viewers to delete commercials with a simple command? You could assume many of us...

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

- AUGUST 11, 1995/EDEFX Group, with offices in New York and Miami, has named former executive VP/COO Patrick Howley president. He succeeds Marcos Obadia, who departed to assume the same title at Click 3 West, San Francisco....Freelance visual effects artists Jon Warren, Douglas Miller and Evan...

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

Just fill in the blank with the name of a city. Seemingly, that's all that's required if you're a politician looking to intervene in the actors' strike against the ad industry.

The blank is in the text of a resolution proposing that a municipality not issue film permits to spots using non...

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

AUGUST 11, 1995/EDEFX Group, with offices in New York and Miami, has named former executive VP/COO Patrick Howley president. He succeeds Marcos Obadia, who departed to assume the same title at Click 3 West, San Francisco....Freelance visual effects artists Jon Warren, Douglas Miller and Evan...

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000

Just fill in the blank with the name of a city. Seemingly, that's all that's required if you're a politician looking to intervene in the actors' strike against the ad industry.

The blank is in the text of a resolution proposing that a municipality not issue film permits to spots using non...

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