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TELEMUNDO HASN'T RESORTED to classified ads yet, but it has done the next best thing. Starting this week, in conjunction with a local community college, the giant, Miami-based Spanish-language TV network is offering a college course to train new writers of telenovelas. Those prime-time soaps, with their stories of love lost and love found, are immensely popular in Latin America and increasingly so among the U.S. Hispanic audience. Telemundo, which produces all its own soaps, has four of them on the air each weekday evening, accounting for 40% of the network's total ad revenues...
Young inventor Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor) has come to Robot City to present his gadgets to revered Mr. Bigweld (Mel Brooks), whose company has been subverted by his underlings' plan to phase out all old robots with the ad line "Why be you when you can be new?" Rodney's allies in the good fight include feisty young Piper (Amanda Bynes) and garrulous old Fender (Robin Williams...
Once these previously jobless citizens are employed, they will spend more money on the economy, thereby spurring greater job growth and causing more hiring, ad infinitum. Thus, eliminating EPA standards would single-handedly pull the United States economy out of its slump. Of course, once the economy was growing at a fast rate, the government would be collecting more money in taxes that it could then use to either pay down its national debt or invade Iran or Syria, as our President sees...
Speaking of hot women, one of the redeeming qualities of February is the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. But the best two-page spread this year did not involve swimsuits or models, and instead hinted at one more reason to dislike the month: it was a humble four-color ad for ESPN, with a black-and-white photo of Celtic greats Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, and Larry Bird at the Boston Garden. The heading on the opposite page read, “Without sports, 32-00-33 wouldn’t be considered beautiful...
...debate over Social Security reform got nasty last week when this ad from conservative lobbying group USA Next appeared on the American Spectator website. Blogs such as DAILY KOS and TALKING POINTS MEMO (TPM) challenged the implication that the AARP, which opposes Bush's privatization plan, is antitroop and pro--gay marriage. The ad was removed hours later, but TPM continues to ask whether USA Next, whose assault on the AARP is run in part by the people who created last year's Swift Boat ads, is connected to the Administration. USA Next denies...