Adventures in Advertising
Hockey For Southerners
Fifteen years ago, I was asked to give a speech about creativity by John Matthews of Alabama Farm Bureau Insurance. I had written hundreds of ...
READ MORE19th Annual SAG Awards
As a working member of SAG/AFTRA for the past forty years, I look forward to voting each year in the SAG awards. I am proud ...
READ MOREAdvertising & The Super Bowl
It is twenty-eight years since the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots. When the Bears returned home to Chicago to ...
READ MOREA View From The Top
One day I got a call from Joe Sedelmaier’s casting director who said Joe wanted to book me for a shoot without first seeing me ...
READ MOREAdvertising on Ice
Good News! The NHL will resume playing hockey. I’ve always been amazed how many advertising people are involved in hockey. I grew up a Black ...
READ MOREMy Lucky Number
I posed for the first print ad for the Illinois Lottery. As the mythical first winner, I stood in front of a Winnetka lake front ...
READ MOREAll I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
This isn’t a story about dental hygiene. It isn’t even a story about teeth. It’s a text book lesson about advertising. A copy of the ...
READ MOREFruitcakes
It’s that time of year. Fruitcakes are on everyone’s mind. Most people make fun of fruitcakes. After all “fruitcake” is also a derogatory term for ...
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