Adventures in Advertising
Oprah!
When Oprah bought the Fred Niles studios and transformed them into Harpo Studios, it created a lot of employment for Chicago. The first time I ...
READ MOREA Miraculous Flight
One of the perks of my career was travel. I won jobs that allowed me to travel to many different cites in the United States ...
READ MORECubs Win World Series!
Last year, I acted in a commercial for a video game in which the Cubs win the World Series. We shot outside two nights last ...
READ MOREA Cup Of Joe . . . DiMaggio
Nothing goes together better than baseball and a steaming cup of coffee. Personally I never saw a coffee vendor at a baseball game. Baseball goes ...
READ MOREHow Do You Make a German Laugh?
One of the most interesting apprentices we had at Cerny/American was an actor who had an interest in becoming a clown. His name was Joel ...
READ MORERepeat w/Madeline
One of my favorite theatre roles was playing the title character in repeat w/Madeline. The play was written by Jim McDermott, a Chicago playwright and ...
READ MOREMagenta
Near the end of last year, an old friend stopped by the studio. He was more than a friend to me over the years. He ...
READ MORENot Not is Something
When is a double negative a positive? When it sells billions of dollars of products. A double negative is at the core of one of ...
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