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Jason English
Casting Literary Pitchmen (and Pitchwomen)
by Jason English - November 28, 2006 - 9:52 AM

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Ever wanted to turn a famous work of art into a print ad? Well, you just missed your chance. The deadline has passed, but you can still head over to Worth1000.com and see the gallery.

I feel like a tease, getting your hopes up like that. So let’s try this: pick any product, then pick any character from any book to be your product’s pitchman.

To start us off, I’ll pick Lennie from Of Mice and Men. He can chase the Energizer Bunny around the Salinas Valley in an award-winning series of TV spots.  Lennie could also work for Trix.

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  1. “Oh James! How can you be so cool and dry after saving the world yet again?”

    “Bond. GOLD Bond.”

    posted by Sheldon Siegel on 11-28-2006 at 11:08 am

  2. Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee trek across the face of Middle-Earth, fighting off orcs, spiders, the undead, Gollum, and the temptation of power. After tossing the ring into the Crack of Doom, they pause, absorb the monumental importance of their accomplishment…
    and toss back some Gatorade!
    (The One Ring to Rule Them…er, Gatorade. Is it in you?)

    posted by Paul on 11-28-2006 at 11:54 am

  3. Holden Caulfield as the face of Paxil. He could be sailing, or doing gymnastics (or whatever really happy people do) in the background during the long disclaimer and then he’d tell me to ask my doctor about it.

    posted by Leah on 11-28-2006 at 3:06 pm

  4. Dorian Gray for botox…

    posted by hannah on 11-28-2006 at 3:40 pm

  5. “So Bob, how’s the new job going?”

    “Just great Phil! I can’t believe how long I worked for that skin-flint Scrooge before I found out about MONSTER.COM.”

    posted by Sheldon Siegel on 11-28-2006 at 5:31 pm

  6. jack kerouac standing by a roadside, tired, hungry, thirsty, thumbing for a ride. a car pulls up–piloted by a little lawn gnome who advises him that he should have used travelocity before zipping off down the road again…

    posted by ian on 11-28-2006 at 9:24 pm

  7. posted by dustone on 12-4-2007 at 2:40 am

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