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Lewis Lazare: It's almost enough to make a grown man weep for joy. We're talking about the debut this week of a dramatically different ad campaign from trendsetting shop Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Ore., for Miller High Life, known for many years as the champagne of bottled beers. Miller High Life's gloriously literate "Girl in the Moon" commercial is precisely the sign we've been awaiting. Claiming the juice had …

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Oh, delicious irony. Here's an article from BusinessWeek about Gillette's new Fusion razor, which features 5 blades. And here's an "op-ed" piece from The Onion, written last year, titled...well, you just have to read it. Life imitates satire. …

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First Jeff Jarvis launches an all out assualt on Dell. Now Sun Microsystems is getting in to the act. Sun Censored but Not Silent Top business publications refused to run our bold ad concepts because the headlines were thought too controversial. At Sun, we're the radical engineers that build "ass-whoopin" technology - we're not Miss Manners and we never want to be. We ask all you contrarians out there to e-mail us …

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I like to see Lewis Lazare upset by a weak ad campaign. Seriously, it's a fun way to start the day. Much as it pains us to say so, American Airlines is sticking with the mantra "We Know Why You Fly" that the carrier introduced a year ago in an ad campaign from TM Advertising in Irving, Texas. In a hugely disappointing new television, print and Internet ad campaign breaking today, American purports to build on the …

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Here's a new corporate image campaign from some company called Areva. Which I've never heard of, but they are apparently one of the largest producers of nuclear power in the US. So I guess we should know about what they do, and who to blame if the meltdown comes. Click here to see their new website that's part of their campaign, and you can watch the relatively cool animated spot that uses "Funkytown" to explain, as …

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Could this be Ralph's response to Tommy's domination of the urban market? …

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According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Ruth's Chris is permanently relocating its headquarters from New Orleans—the city where it got its start—to Orlando, Florida. On Aug. 31, not long after the levees burst in New Orleans, the top executives of Ruth's Chris Steakhouse gathered in the lobby of the Orlando Embassy Suites for an hourlong, soul-searching meeting. "It was probably one of the toughest decisions that …

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This from Ad Age: Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Eddie Lampert has demoted Sears CEO Alan Lacy, replacing him with former Kmart CEO Aylwin Lewis, while expanding his own role in day-to-day merchandising and marketing duties. Analysts and industry watchers lambasted Mr. Lampert’s move to take a more active role in merging marketing at Sears and Kmart, saying the hedge-fund manager and financier, whose company ESL …

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