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...triumphant life: the son of Italian immigrants, he scratched his way to the top of the Ford Motor Company, then guided Chrysler from the brink of financial ruin to robust health and considerable profits. And, yes, he has become a household name as the earnest TV pitchman for his company's cars. He is also the author of the best-selling autobiography ever (more than 5 million copies, hardcover and paperback, are in print) and a proud patriot who raised $277 million for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. But Iacocca has said he is "repulsed...
When seen earlier this year on network television, Ronald Prescott Reagan, 28, was dancing in his underwear on Saturday Night Live. Next month he returns to the tube as a pitchman. Seated in a crowded airliner, he asks a familiar question--"Do you know me?"--then proceeds with a gentle spoof of his family connection: "Every time I appear on a talk show, people ask me about my father. Every time I give out an interview, people ask me about my father. Every time I pull out the American Express card, people treat me like my father. Come to think...
...success of Fred Rated and other weirdos like him has spurred more and more regional businesses to peddle their products with commercials that are goofy, whimsical and sometimes downright obnoxious. One of the pioneers in the field is Crazy Eddie, the New York-area consumer-electronics chain with the pitchman who raves about "insane" prices and "Christmas sales" in August. Instead of copying the slick style of the ad factories on Madison Avenue, local advertisers churn out low-budget affairs that they often write and produce themselves. Nothing is too ridiculous if it catches a viewer's attention: announcers attack...
...population--often do not realize what is the matter and stumble downhill under the self-destructive notion that they are stupid. In fact, many victims are exceptionally bright and ambitious. Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson and Nelson Rockefeller were dyslectic, as are Singer Cher and Athlete-TV Pitchman Bruce Jenner. The National Institute of Dyslexia gives annual achievement awards; winners this year include Stanford Political Scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and Timothy Loose, a Tucson math teacher who learned to read when...
...much of a birthday present for Lee Iacocca, Chrysler's celebrated chairman, best-selling author, television pitchman and, now, syndicated newspaper columnist. He turned 61 on Oct. 15, and less than 24 hours later some 70,000 American and 10,000 Canadian members of the United Auto Workers walked off their jobs at Chrysler. It was the company's first major U.S. strike since...