Toureg and the Angry Inch

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John Cameron Mitchell, who played the dynamic almost-transsexual in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which he also wrote and directed, may seem an unlikely spokesman for Volkswagen, but hey. VW is sponsoring Escape From Hollywood, the show Mitchell is hosting on the Independent Film Channel. And one of the things that commercial-free IFC offers sponsors is to create brief promos on their behalf. Thus was born a new VW spot in which Mitchell spoofs Arnold’s Toureg ads from this past spring.

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