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DirecTV’s been celebrating memorable movies and TV shows in its ads for more than a year, getting Sigourney Weaver, Charlie Sheen, Pam Anderson and others to reprise classic roles and then break character to deliver a pitch. Some think the latest installment, a Halloween-timed spot with Craig T. Nelson and Heather O’Rourke from Poltergeist, is in bad taste, given that O’Rourke, who played Carol Anne, died tragically in 1988 at age 12. Check out the 37 comments on this
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