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HARDEE'S TO HEAR FROM 3 SHOPS LOS ANGELES-Hardee's Food Systems, Rocky Mount, N.C., on Feb. 26 will hear presentations from three finalists: Angotti, Thomas, Hedge and Publicis/Bloom, both New York, and The Leap Partnership, Chicago, said Jim Bishoff of Strategics, the Los Angeles consultancy assisting in the review. A decision will follow shortly thereafter, he said. EL POLLO POKES FUN AT TACO BELL'S CHIHUAHUA LOS ANGELES-Comedian Paul Rodriguez warns a chihuahua of the consequences of eating too many tacos in a new TV spot from Foote, Cone & Belding's Los Angeles office for fast-food chain El Pollo Loco. The 30-second spot spoofs rival Taco Bell's commercials featuring a chihuahua with an appetite for Taco Bell. The spot, which broke last week, was one of the last FCB ads completed for Irvine, Calif.-based El Pollo Loco before it resigned the account late last year. The $10 million account is now handled by Dailey & Associates in West Hollywood, Calif. ANDY JUDGES HEAD TO MOROCCO NEW YORK-Lee Garfinkel, chief creative at Lowe & Partners/SMS here led a team of 23 top creatives to Marrakesh, Morocco, on Friday to judge the International Andy Awards, of which Garfinkel is honorary chairman. Other judges include Rick Boyko, creative head of Ogilvy & Mather's New York office; Jeff Goodby, co-chairman of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; Bill Westbrook, creative director of Fallon McElligott; Bob Scarpelli, chief creative of DDB Needham; Ted Bell, worldwide creative director of Young & Rubicam; and John Nieman, worldwide creative director of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. The Andy's were established by the Advertising Club of New York in 1964. EXECUTIVES BLAST MEDIA BUYERS NEW YORK-Phil Guarascio, vice president and general manager of marketing and advertising at General Motors, last week said media buyers "have walked away from their responsibilities," during a panel discussion at the American Association of Advertising Agencies in Anaheim, Calif. He called upon ad agencies and media buying services to step up efforts to educate clients about controversial editorial and programming content. Other panelists, including Jack Klues, executive vice president, worldwide director of media at Leo Burnett, echoed Guarascio's comments. BOZELL PRESENTS TO QUAKER; LEAGAS TESTED NEW YORK-Bozell Worldwide here will make a creative presentation to Quaker State next week for the company's estimated $20 million motor oil account. Bozell, a late entrant in the pitch, is competing against Leagas Delaney in San Francisco. The client, in the midst of a three-week on-air evaluation of work by Leagas, does not plan to test the Bozell work, sources said. The Leagas test will run until the first week of March, and the winning agency is expected to be named shortly thereafter, said William Tucker of the Tucker Partnership, which is overseeing the review. CRUISE LINES BEGIN MEDIA REVIEW CHICAGO-Seven media buying agencies were sent questionnaires last week for Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruise Lines' $40 million TV media buying account, according to Jan Apple, the Minnetonka, Minn.-based consultant running the review. Royal Caribbean incumbent McKinney & Silver, Raleigh, N.C., and Celebrity incumbent Harris Drury Cohen, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., also are participating, she said. CRYOVAC EYES 8 CONTENDERS ATLANTA-Plastic packaging manufacturer Cryovac, Duncan, S.C., is considering eight agencies for its estimated $8 million global business-to-business account. Newman, Saylor & Gregory, Columbia, S.C., is the incumbent. In the running are: Fitzgerald & Co. and Ogilvy & Mather, both Atlanta; Publicis/Bloom, Dallas; O'Connell, Norton & Partners, the food-service specialty unit of Bozell, Chicago; Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners and Grey Advertising, both New York; Young & Rubicam's Miami office; and the incumbent. NEWSWIRE ROUNDUP J. Walter Thompson of Germany is in the final stages of contract negotiations with the private communications division of Siemens AG in Munich, Germany, to handle its estimated $100 million global ad account . . . The Minnesota Lottery will open its $9 million account to a review next month and will not limit the competition to in-state agencies. The incumbent, Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis, has not decided whether it will defend . . . Hyundai Motor America, Fountain Valley, Calif., has awarded its interactive account to its lead agency, Bates USA West, Irvine, Calif . . . The Chicagoland/Northwest Indiana Chevrolet Dealers this week breaks two spots featuring sports greats Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali. Lois/EJL, Chicago, created the spots . . . Grey Advertising, New York, has won the estimated $5 million corporate account of Thiokol, an aerospace components manufacturing company . . . Seagram Americas said discussions about "some new product assignments" have taken place with Arnold Communications. Sources said the Boston agency is being considered to launch a new superpremium vodka under development. FOR THE RECORD A new campaign story about The Lord Group's TV spot for KeyCorp [Adweek, Feb. 9] failed to list the following names in the credits section: Mike Simos, vice president, associate creative director (copy); Elana Hershman, art director; and Lois Rice, senior vice president, executive producer (agency).

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