News

Stealing hubcaps used to be regarded in some circles as a rite of passage for juvenile delinquency. But surreptitiously installing custom magnesium alloy ("mag") rims on unattended parked cars is...

New Faces

Mike Sheehan has been named CEO of Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulous. He will remain president of U.S. operations for the agency, which has offices in New...

SHORT CUTS

Tim Cahill of 89 Editorial, New York, cut four :30s for MCI and Deutsch New York. The ads, which feature actor Danny Glover, introduce "The Neighborhood" plan from...

Director/DP Janusz Kaminski—who has won Oscars for his work as cinematographer of the feature films Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List—has signed with Space Program, Universal City, for...

Carmaker Mini Cooper and its ad shop, Crispin Porter+Bogusky (CP+B), Miami, were the big winners at The One Show, held on May 9 at the Winter Garden in New York's World Financial Center. Mini—a...

Director David Dobkin, who took a year-and-a-half hiatus from commercialmaking to helm the feature Shanghai Knights starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, has returned to the ad discipline, signing...

SHOOT is pleased to present its very first New Directors Showcase, which spotlights directors who have been helming ads for less than two years. The new kids on the block come from a variety of...

CLIENT

Quaker State Motor Oil.

PRODUCTION CO.

Maysles Shorts, New York.

David McNamara, director; Karl Hahn, DP; Bill Curren, executive producer; Margaret Ambrosoni,...

CLIENT

United States Coast Guard.

PRODUCTION CO.

Plum Productions, Santa Monica.

Eric Saarinen, director/DP; Chuck Sloan and Shelby Sexton, executive producers; Joel...

World Wide Wadio, Hollywood, serving as a hybrid agency/production house, won the Sweepstakes Best of Show Radio honor at the 43rd annual International Broadcasting Awards (IBA) competition, for...