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Maybe the DNC should cut Alex Castellanos a nice fat check. After all, the GOP adman has produced a TV spot that's eliciting torrents of high-level sweat over at RNC headquarters (and, no doubt, torrents of jokes for Jay Leno and David Letterman...
...their candidate) from the ad, they've got to castigate Castellanos as publicly as possible. The fact that Castellanos is one of the best in the business won't make their decision any easier; with the exception of his work on Bob Dole's 1996 presidential bid, the adman has generally thrown his hat into the winning ring. He can be venomous, but he gets the job done...
Capturing that feeling and conveying it over the airwaves to the broader public is the job of Bush's unusual media team. Led by McKinnon, a lapsed Democrat and former guitar picker who in his youth hung out with Kris Kristofferson, the bunch includes veteran G.O.P. adman Stuart Stevens, who doubles as a successful novelist, travel and TV-script writer, and a cadre of Madison Avenue advertising whizzes who call themselves the Park Avenue Posse...
...adman's adman. He wasn't a hipster like William Bernbach, who tapped into youthcult with the "Think Small" campaign for Volkswagen. He wasn't an elegant rationalist like David Ogilvy, whose ads famously advised the rich that a Rolls-Royce was the sensible car to buy. He didn't even work on Madison Avenue, but in Chicago's Loop instead. But Leo Burnett, the jowly genius of the heartland subconscious, is the man most responsible for the blizzard of visual imagery that assaults us today...
...Thankfully, this smart sitcom was not the victim of its network's scratch-happy spirit. Now in its second season, the show about mismatched lovebirds in the making has given us a chance to feast on the prodigious comic gifts of Thomas Haden Church, who plays Ned, a voluble adman. If there is a more engagingly comtemptuous character on TV, we haven't come upon...