How Bruce Greenwood Ended Up Speaking Only in Ad Slogans

A chat with the director of And Now a Word from Our Sponsor

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It’s a story that may too closely resemble reality for some in the ad industry: You wake up one morning and realize that you can only speak in slogans. Next week marks the launch—May 6 on demand, and May 10 in a handful of New York and L.A. theatres—of ad-themed indie flick And Now a Word From Our Sponsor. In the movie, actor Bruce Greenwood plays a mysteriously traumatized ad man incapable of spouting anything but ad copy.

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