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Did Armstrong Lance The Boil? Not So Much
From our Lance Armstrong Death Watch desk According to ad industry bible Advertising Age, it’s Kaddish for Lance Armstrong in the marketing world. Lance Armstrong Blew His Last Chance, Experts Say Other Disgraced Athletes Have Made Comebacks, So How Marketable … Continue reading
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A (Jason) Gay Ole Time! (Lance/Oprah Edition)
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay has thankfully weighed in on the upcoming Lance Armstrong/Oprah Winfrey cable TV summit: What Lance Wants From Oprah I would like to go on Oprah. So would you. Don’t lie. Oprah is Oprah. Come on. … Continue reading
Dead Blogging The 83rd Annual Academy Awards
First things first: If you picked “amazing” for your drinking game, you were knee-walking the Red Carpet by 6:16. Rating the Red Carpet Shows √ TV Guide Channel: Chris Somebody, Harrison Somebody, and Tabitha the Tonsorial Tsarina from some cable … Continue reading
Ad o’ the Day (pat. pending)
As part of its effort to make a buck wherever it can, the Boston Globe ran a house ad on Thursday with the headline, “Moms who rock are moms who bowl.” The ad promotes a new bowling league, organized by … Continue reading