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...name sounds as normal as can be: Tom Green. But over the past year and a half, this MTV sensation, Pepsi pitchman and movie star apparent has slurped milk from a cow's teat, snorkeled for pennies in a shopping-mall fountain, worn an ELVIS SUCKS T shirt at Graceland, fought Monica Lewinsky with a lightsaber and gargled with mustard. Contrary to rumor, however, he did not dress as Hitler to attend a bar mitzvah. Although it is true that he humped a dead moose on camera...
...consequence, the work remains one of confusion punctuated with moments of humor-the latter derived mainly from product placement. The ghost of Old Hamlet disappears into a "Pepsi One" sign, and the infamous brooding and melancholic speech "To be or not to be" is delivered in a Blockbuster video store in the "Action" section, next to the sign "Go Home Happy." Whether intentionally comic or not, they detract from the play's tension, sucking out any emotional involvement that might otherwise have existed...
...sold Levi's as well. The Tealuxe spotlight that casts the company logo as a shadow on the sidewalk outside its Harvard Square store is a particularly nice example. Blimps and banners pulled by planes are similarly familiar, but negotiations between the Russian space program and Pepsi to put the company's logo on Russia's rockets a few years ago took the insanity, quite literally, to new heights...
...effective collection system, yet all government workers get paid. Street signs and numbers are erratic. If you ask, "Where is the IBM shop?" you will hear something like this: "Find the old Swiss Pastry Shop that was bombed in 1978, go across the street, turn right at the Pepsi-Cola sign; make a left where Ali's Java Shack is; go into the car dealership and ask them; they will tell you where the IBM shop...
...Surely the two guys will be up for some old-fashioned male bonding on 4E. I take a sip of my Diet Pepsi and walk over to a smallish Asian student who is watching a CS 124 lecture...