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Commercial Music Composer Tom Pomposello Dies At 49
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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Tom Pomposello, president/founder of New York-based music/sound design house Pomposello Productions, died Jan. 25, reportedly from an aneurysm, which led to an automobile accident. No one else was...
Autodesk And Discreet Again Amend Acquisition Terms
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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Autodesk and Discreet Logic announced last month that the two companies have amended for a second time the definitive agreement entered into in August 1998 that provides for the acquisition of the...
Tomandandy Plus Jonathan: Music Shop Names Slater VP Of Ops.
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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Bicoastal music shop tomandandy has named Jonathan Slater as VP of operations. An agency veteran with experience on the production shop side as well, Slater will be very heavily involved in...
John Lindley Signs With Perretti Prodns. For Spots: Noted DP Signs To Direct Via New York Shop.
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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John Lindley, a cinematographer whose long list of feature credits includes Pleasantville and Youve Got Mail, has signed with Perretti Productions, New York, to direct commercials. Lindley will...
Eat Your Heart Out, Baba Wawa: Jon Kane Talks With Music Celebs In VH1 Campaign.
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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Its 1999, and what were doing is just trying to get out of the way of the material because its so easy for us not to, says director Jon Kane talking about spotmaking in general and Go Behind the...
YOUR SHOT: Talk To Me
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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ful world of faxes, you, the bidding director, have seen the storyboard. The conference call begins. Your producer is on the phone. Our agency producer is on the phone. Even the rep is on the...
SPOT.COM.MENTARY: Numbers Game
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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ing to their census. At least, thats the view of agencies that specialize in ethnic markets, including African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American.
With the U.S. Census Bu-reaus...
AGENCY PRODUCERS/WINTER EDITION: Alphaville - Jan OMalley helps turn the Nike store into a little shop of horrors.
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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Its like working at a school for gifted children, raves senior producer Jan OMalley about San Francisco-based agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, where, to hear her tell it, even the mail...
AGENCY PRODUCERS/WINTER EDITION: Did Somebody Say, Greg Lane? From producer to creative and back again.
- Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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Copywriters and other creatives at DDB Needham Chicago no doubt will appreciate the wealth of experience Greg Lane brings to his new position as the agencys executive producer on the $600-million...