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...want it to. In March Chevrolet organized an online make-your-own-commercial campaign for its Tahoe SUV. Green-minded humorists hijacked the campaign, creating widely circulated Tahoe ads with slogans like, "Nature? It'll grow back. Drive a car that costs the earth." Last year, Lee Ford and Dan Brooks, a London-based creative ad development team, came up with an "edgy" Volkswagen spot for a demo reel: a terrorist tries to detonate a car bomb outside a crowded café. But the car, a VW Polo, is too sturdy--it contains the blast, killing the terrorist but saving...
...Dan Brown's best seller (40 million copies in 44 languages, with 6 million paperbacks sold since they arrived in bookstores March 28) portrayed Opus Dei as an ecclesiastical Cosa Nostra. That was painful enough for the secretive Roman Catholic society. But the thought of having those words put into pictures called for direct action, especially after the group's attempts to negotiate with the filmmakers were declined. "We could not just sit still and wait for the flagellation of the film itself," says Juan Manuel Mora, director of Opus Dei's communications department. "Nobody wanted a battleground...
...years, have been speaking out about their experiences in the organization. Silas (the real one) says he doesn't mind his unusually earned public profile: "I am pleased with the publicity in a way. It helps counter some of the impressions that the author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, was trying to portray about Opus Dei, the church and Christianity in general...
...most likely, my words of warning are already too late. Certainly the imaginary game that was born among the literary elite has already taken irreversible root among the undergraduate population of one of America’s most elite universities. Dan Okrent, first public editor of The New York Times, thought up the cruel sport, which came to be named after the Manhattan restaurant, La Rotiss�rie Fran�aise, where he and his fellow New York cognoscenti (and members of the first-ever Roto league) gathered to lunch and talk baseball...
...Staff writer Dan R. Rasmussen can be reached at drasmuss@fas.harvard.edu...