S2E19 - Nothing In Common: How Hollywood Portrays Ad People
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2013
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Most pilots, lawyers and doctors roll their eyes at the way Hollywood depicts them, and ad people are no exception. From the 1947 movie The Hucksters, to the Rock Hudson/Doris Day film Love Come Back, to Darrin Stephens in Bewitched, to Dudley Moore in Crazy People, to the Tom Hanks movie Nothing In Common, all the way to Mad Men.
We'll rate them all, and see where they got it right, and where they got it very, very wrong.
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| 0:32.2 | but wait, there's more. |
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| 0:47.1 | Just repeat after me. |
| 0:52.5 | It's not me, it's definitely you, you rigid, unfriendly software. |
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