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Commercial-isms: JCPenney vs. Rosemary Clooney “On the First Warm Day”
It’s ten years ago this summer that jazz and pop singer Rosemary Clooney, (George’s dear aunt, and this dude’s mom) died of lung cancer at the age of 74. But a new JCPenney ad is making sure she’s not forgotten.
And like the retailer’s April ad featuring a little-known song by 60s teen pop star Lesley Gore (“Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows”), they’ve dug deep and come up with a lovely find – the […]
Commercial-isms: JCPenney vs. Lesley Gore “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows”
Attention all professional (and do-it-yourself) outraged social conservatives! JCPenney is now officially f*cking with you.
We all remember your impassioned pleas to the big-box retailer to drop their tacit endorsement of the homosexual agenda, embodied by their hiring of arch-lesbian Ellen DeGeneres to appear in a series of ads touting the chain’s revolutionary (giggle) new pricing scheme. Not only did they refuse to back down and give the job to someone more appropriate – like Elizabeth […]
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Before he was a Monkee, a teenaged Davy Jones originated the role of the Artful Dodger in the musical Oliver!, and even landed himself a Tony nomination when he played the role on Broadway in 1963. But he’ll best be remembered for creating a different kind of role: a model for virtual life-long teen idol-dom. Like all boy bands, the made-for-TV Monkees were an easy target for the scorn of an increasingly […]