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AOL to Run Super Bowl AdsNEW YORK—America Online made a last-minute end-run into the Super Bowl to push its AOL Broadband service. Sources said the company made plans with nearly all of this year's advertisers to have their ads rerun on AOL during the game's fourth quarter. AOL purchased one 15-second spot and received one mention of the promotion during pre-game and one during the event. Omnicom Group's BBDO was brought in to create the ad, sources said.Dell Reviews $50 Mil. Catalog-Business AccountDALLAS—Dell Computer Corp. has put its estimated $50 million catalog business into review, sources said. Omnicom's Rapp Collins in Dallas, the incumbent on the consumer-catalog business, is expected to defend. It is unclear whether Austin, Texas-based T3, which handles the small-business catalog, will defend. Neither the shops nor the client could be reached for comment.Berlin Cameron Sells Coke WorkNEW YORK—Berlin Cameron/Red Cell has sold at least one new spot and is preparing several others for Coke Classic's "Real" campaign, sources said. The WPP Group shop created the work, which launched on Jan. 13 and features ordinary people and celebrities. Sources said Coca-Cola marketing approved a 30-second spot slated to break in mid-February. It shows a group of African-American guys playing a videogame and drinking Coke Classic. One loud braggart, or "trashtalker," opens a jostled can, unwittingly spraying himself with soda. Lawmaker: Give More Biz to Small ShopsWASHINGTON—Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick, D-Mich., introduced a bill that will require federal agencies to award a "fair" number of ad contracts to small and minority-owned businesses. "Federal advertising contract obligations increased from $139 million in 1994 to $368 million in 1998," Kilpatrick wrote in a letter to fellow lawmakers. She noted that "91 percent of the total federal advertising budget" went to large agencies in 1998. Lawsuit Against Interpublic Group AmendedNEW YORK—A federal securities class-action lawsuit filed in August against IPG and several current and former senior officers was amended this month to include charges of further damage, following IPG's disclosures of accounting improprieties last fall. The lawsuit also claims that IPG tried to hide the true value of the company. The plaintiffs brought the suit on behalf of investors who acquired IPG common stock between Oct. 28, 1997 and Oct. 16, 2002. Account ActivityWyeth Laboratories hasn't yet made a decision in its $30-40 million FluMist review, sources said. The review began in July and narrowed to three in October. Contenders are IPG's Foote, Cone & Belding and McCann-Erickson, and Publicis' Saatchi & Saatchi, all in New York. AAR Partners in New York, which is running the review, declined comment. … Pfizer is shifting its Lubriderm account from WPP's J. Walter Thompson in New York to BBDO, also in New York, sources said. The brand and its extensions got nearly $30 million in media support in the first 10 months of 2002, according to CMR.

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