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...Kureishi himself. For a quarter-century his films, plays and novels have captured the motley qualities of post-colonial Britain - its Karachi-born taxi drivers, jack-booted skinheads, coked-up admen and firebrand mullahs. His latest work, now playing at London's National Theatre, dramatizes his 1993 novel The Black Album. Set in 1989, during the furor over Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, it follows a British Pakistani college boy torn between the delights of sex and Western culture and the lure of Islamic fundamentalism. The book is a fresh and funny bildungsroman, capturing an antic '80s London. Sadly...
Created by Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner, the drama (debuting July 19) is set just after the creation of the revolutionary "Think Small" Volkswagen ad campaign, a time widely considered to be Madison Avenue's golden age. "Admen were the rock stars of that era," Weiner says. "They had creative jobs, they earned a lot of money, they drank a lot. There was this real cowboy image...
...purity to refer to a medium that is at least 5% fart jokes. Nothing can force a clip to go viral. It requires an authentic response from a mass audience, and the mainstream is learning to respect that. Soon after their unsanctioned VW spot hit the Net, viral admen Ford and Brooks were hired for a series of spoof political spots for Britain's Channel 4, and they've gone on to work for McDonald's and the Sci Fi Channel Europe, among others. Says Brooks...
...looking for the people who actually buy cars," he asked, "or the people who say, 'Daddy, please buy me a car'?" Nice line, but CBS has scheduled Clubhouse, a drama about a 16year-old bat boy for a fictional New York baseball team, which Moonves told the admen would "make us much younger" on Tuesday nights. A show like Clubhouse, however, raises the question of what exactly male-friendly programming means. Last fall some executives blamed the XY flight on too many new shows with female leads (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). But casting men doesn't automatically mean attracting...
...with only an elementary school education, Burroughs landed a job at Ogilvy & Mather and in short order became a Manhattan adman with a six-figure salary. "It was just thrilling," he remembers over lunch at the sort of expense-account restaurant frequented by Manhattan admen. "I thought I would end up in a mental hospital, or pumping gas for the rest of my life...