Everybody Say 'Shhhh!'

If the company you’re pitching isn’t doing so well, does the client’s presumably bad mood make him more receptive to fun, lighthearted pitches?

Who knows? But that’s what Team One gave Movielink, the film-downloading service. Movielink has struggled to find users, partly because the five participating studios have limited its features due to piracy fears and partly because not many people seem to want to watch movies on their computers. (If the movies can’t be transfered to a TV, “they’re hosed,” a Forrester Research analyst told the Los Angeles Times recently.)