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The Atlantic has published a profile of Paul Marcarelli, Verizon's "Can you hear me now?" guy. What's next, a three-part series on Flo from Progressive Insurance? But actually, it turns out the Marcarelli piece is quite provocative, with a recurring and ironic theme of his being stifled from talking by the marketer—raising salient points about consumerism, identity, and the failure to communicate in our media-drenched society.
There are lots of fun, juicy tidbits about the bespectacled actor's decade-long tenure as the telecom's pitchman.
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