The Case Of The Missing Cars
The answer is: McCloud (Dennis Weaver), McMillan and Wife (Rock Hudson and Susan St. James), and Columbo (Peter Falk). The year is 1973. A few years earlier, NBC and Universal signed a multi-year...
View ArticleThe Rocket Car
Here’s my story it’s sad but true, it’s about a car I once knew. It took my love then ran around, through every light in town…Hayp, Hayp. Bumda hady hady hayp hayp… Well, most of you know the lyrics...
View ArticleYou’re Here To Do What?????
Ahhhhh, the magic of Hollywood! Where dreams become reality, and things aren’t quite what they seem. Chevy was still sponsoring the NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie. McMillan & Wife, McCloud, and...
View ArticleBecoming A Non-Person
Thanksgiving of 1977 was particularly festive…despite the Lions being drubbed by Walter Payton and the Bears 31-14 in the Thanksgiving Day Game. My wife and I had told our families about the impending...
View ArticleThese Guys Are A Lot Different From GM!
I landed at LAX at 3:30 PM, and it already felt different. This was to be my new home. There was no thought that someone would walk into my office and tell me that I was being transferred back to...
View ArticleFast Times At FCB High
LA wasn’t Detroit, FCB wasn’t Campbell-Ewald, and Mazda wasn’t Chevy. That’s not a comparison of merits, but more a statement of fact. Like saying a book isn’t a spleen. But it was still auto...
View ArticleLife Imitates Art!
Advertising is stressful, competitive, daunting, draining, exciting, and stimulating. It also tests the limits of your endurance, and is always just a hair’s breadth away from erupting into violence....
View ArticleRolling Coconuts and Footballs
In addition to getting free cars, another great thing about being in advertising is the opportunity to meet fascinating people at free dinners in fancy hotels. This was the case when an old friend of...
View ArticleI Leave Home
As in many other industries, ad agencies follow a certain protocol when poaching talent from another agency. Rather than use a “scorched earth” policy that leaves behind bad feelings, reputable...
View ArticleTerror In Tokyo!
Or for fans of Japanese Literature puns: がいじん ものがたり (Gaijin Monogatari) Yes, that is a giant spider (statue) terrifying residents of the Roppongi District of Tokyo. I will let you know later how I...
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