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Instead of the Artist as Star, we have the Artist as Victim, or as Victim's Representative. The key to the show, the skeptic might say, is its inclusion of the tape of the police bashing of Rodney King taken by George Holliday, a plumbing-parts salesman not known for his artistic aspirations before or since. The '93 Biennial is anxious to present all its artists as witnesses, just like Holliday. Witnesses to what? To their own feelings of exclusion and marginalization. To a world made bad for blacks, Latinos, gays, lesbians and women in general...
...clients conduct tough, private "internal reviews," confronting their agencies with threats to replace them. Some clients seem fickle as well, bouncing like bungee jumpers from agency to agency. A little more than a year ago, a dissatisfied Reebok moved its account from California-based Chiat/Day/Mojo to Boston's Hill, Holliday, Connors & Cosmopulos. But last March the athletic- shoe maker left the Boston agency and gave part of the $40 million account back to Chiat, which has produced such memorable ideas as the Eveready Energizer Bunny and Nissan's fantasy drives, in which a young man dreams of Christie Brinkley coming...
Though it takes for its subject one of jazz's great tragic figures, Yesterdays is not concerned with scaling the heights of Holiday's mythic stature, nor with undoing it. Rather, it engages its audience in discovering Holliday's life through her own music and that of others. Like a great jazz composition, Yesterdays hovers about its theme without suffocating it, evades static and predetermined theatrical structures, defies classification and resists resolution...
...that their critics may be as successful as the antismoking groups that have sharply curbed tobacco marketing over the past 25 years. After requiring warning labels on cigarette packages in 1965, Congress ) in 1971 banned radio and TV cigarette ads. Says John Ferrell, chief creative officer of the Hill, Holliday agency: "I was working on the Marlboro campaign when the TV-advertising ban came down. I think the same thing is going to happen with beer and wine. It is inevitable." Brewers are especially worried about curbs on broadcast ads, since their primary target group of young men is best...
...asks whether love is really forever when the young, beautiful person you married is suddenly a dying old man. Writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene have an off-Broadway winner, on its way to Broadway, and Mary- Louise Parker is the most fetching dizball leading lady since Judy Holliday...