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Close-up: EffectsBasketball 101Five TV spots from WongDoody in Seattle place Seattle SuperSonics coaches and players, wearing tight white shorts and knee socks, in 1940s basketball instructional films, complete with grainy [...]

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Close-up: MusicWhere Wu-Tang Meets Full MontyTwo very different composers—David Yazbeck, Tony-nominated for The Full Monty, and the Wu-Tang Clan’s Killah Priest—lend their talents to a Florida Department of Health “Truth” [...]

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Shiny Happy MiniNEW YORK-The new Mini’s two-tone design and tiny size certainly don’t call to mind the arrogance of many sports-car ads. That, in part, inspired the friendly attitude of [...]

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Drowning in CashTitanic has become a classic film—which means that four years after the release of the blockbuster, it’s still as ripe as ever for parody.Breaking today, a spot from [...]

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Close-Up: Your Underwear Is ShowingWhen New York visual-effects shop Rhinoceros landed a Dockers spot from FCB, San Francisco, it had a twofold challenge: to create a way to show a [...]

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Controversy: Gold Turns to DustGold Lions eluded a few almost-winners at the Cannes Press & Poster competition last week.Bartle Bogle Hegarty chairman John Hegarty had to do right by his [...]

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DéjàThinking Inside the Box Television has long inspired viewers to dream of joining the action onscreen. In the early ’50s, an ad in the Saturday Evening Post told readers that [...]