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Take that Geraldine A. Ferraro spot for Diet Pepsi. It opens with Geraldine having a poignant heart-to-heart with her daughter, the American heroine--mom, wife and would-be vice president--talking with her attractive daughter about life and success. But no, she never mentions Diet Pepsi. In fact, you never realize it's Diet Pepsi. In fact, you never realize it's Diet Pepsi they're hawking until the announcer comes...
...getting and by the downright amazing adoration he encounters all over the country. Lee Iacocca did not set out to become the object of a personality cult, but hey, what the hell? It is fun for him to be able to turn down a $300,000 TV commercial for Pepsi. "I took a powder," he explains. It pleases him to decline movie producers' serious offers to buy the rights to Iacocca. "The hell with the half-million advance," he says. At a safe distance, he even likes the loving mobs. On a damp evening last week in Rochester, he showed...
Wanda: What did you think of Geraldine Ferraro's appearance in the Diet Pepsi commercial, Ralph? Have you switched to Coke...
...Wanda. Great photography and a real slice of life as it is undoubtedly lived in the Zaccaro household, at least when all those accountants aren't cluttering up the place. Here we are, sharing a typical moment of televised intimacy between a famous mother, her two daughters and a Pepsi. Like most Americans, I found myself riveted to the tube as she told the daughters, "You can be anything you want to be" and that being a mother was one of the choices she was most proud of. You've just got to admire a politician who comes...
...sentenced by a New York court the next day to 150 hours of community service for his involvement in a fraudulent real estate deal). Last week also brought news that Ferraro, who previously signed a $1 million book deal, has just filmed a TV commercial for Diet Pepsi. Reported fee: $500,000. Would all that loot seem like a crass cash-in to the electorate when Ferraro runs for the Senate in New York next year? She was not saying. But if she loses, she just has to rework one of her jokes: when her mother asked if Ferraro would...