The Devil, in Fact, Wore White House Black Market
I was Andy before Andy was cool. Not entirely, of course. For instance, I made it two years at a national fashion industry publication that shall remain nameless but was …
Why “Love, Actually” is a bad movie and also a holiday classic
As the holidays draw to a close, decorations start coming down (mine stay up until January 6, but you do you), seasonal playlists return to their li’l media caves or …
Pay your damn writers. (Or, Why You Need Screenwriters on Set During Shooting)
Currently, the Writer’s Guild of America is on strike for a number of reasons, all of them perfectly valid: better pay in general, better streaming residuals specifically, better pensions and …
Totally Unrelated to Advertising: Why Michael Caine deserved an Oscar for The Muppet Christmas Carol
I’m sure, if I put enough work into it, I could wank this post around until I had some quasi-valid connection to advertising such that it would suit the theme …
Dear Baby Creatives: Advertising movies aren’t real life
Dear Baby Creatives, I mean, of course advertising movies aren’t real life. They’re movies. (If you haven’t grasped that fictional movies are fiction, you’ve got bigger issues than ad industry …