If one ad campaign lands in the pop culture file for 2010, it is likely to be the hit spots for Procter & Gamble's Old Spice. Surely you've seen them: The tongue-in-cheek ads, dubbed "Smell like a man, man," star a studly, bare-chested Casanova who tells female viewers Old Spice body wash will make their male partners smell like him. It's so hilariously over the top that after making its debut online during the Super Bowl this year, the first spot went viral and has since been viewed more than 20 million times on YouTube. A follow-up ad in June garnered another 15 million views. The agency behind it, Wieden & Kennedy of Portland, Ore., might have stopped there and called it a success had it not been for Iain Tait, 38, the global head of digital creative who joined W&K in April.
"I'm a big history buff," President Obama said in an interview with ABC News" George Stephanopoulos. "And I think that understanding the history of the Confederacy and understanding the history of the Civil War is something that every American and every young American should be part of."
Brian Kelly At a news conference Friday in South Bend, Indiana, the University of Notre Dame is expected to announce that Kelly has signed a five-year contract to become the Irish's fifth coach this decade -- the worst in Notre Dame's history, with a 70-52 record. Kelly won two Big East titles as head coach at the University of Cincinnati. The son of an alderman in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Kelly worked on Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign in the Boston area and had considered a career in politics.
George Stephanopoulos has been named the new anchor of "Good Morning America," and will start next Monday, ABC News President David Westin announced today.
We've been watching presidents come and go for years and have come up with five key lessons for President Obama to keep in mind as he copes with the world's toughest job.
When then-President-elect Barack Obama first asked Hillary Clinton to be his top diplomat, she turned him down and recommended others for the job, the secretary of state said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain said Sunday they would probably vote for the government's proposed bailout legislation once they check out the final details.
Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain said Sunday they would probably vote for the government's proposed bailout legislation once they check out the final details.
Campaigns are ugly. Watching the way politicians act makes you long for the respect and self-control of the Sopranos. Throughout, there are legitimate attacks and outright lies.
In 2004, just after the release of Ron Suskind's "The Price of Loyalty," a critical account of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's experiences in the Bush administration, Scott McClellan, then the administration spokesman, was asked what he thought of the work.
CNN's Tom Foreman looks back at some of the earlier "tell-all" insider books to emerge from the Bush presidency.
When is the last time you watched a mindless movie that had no redeeming value for you intellectually, but all it did was make you laugh?
Time.com: Klein on Obamaupdated: Thu May 08 2008 02:20:00
Barack Obama has refused to play by the old political rules. He's about to be rewarded for it
Watch Sen. Barack Obama explain to an undecided N.C. voter why he thinks he can win the White House.
Sen. Barack Obama has enjoyed double-digit leads in North Carolina for months, but Sen. Hillary Clinton has narrowed the gap going into the state's Democratic primary Tuesday.
Watch Sen. Barack Obama explain what he sees as his three main differences from rival Sen. Hillary Clinton.
CNN's Larry King talks with Donny and Marie Osmond about 'Dancing with the Stars' and family support in tough times.
Sen. Barack Obama worked to counter suggestions that he is too inexperienced for the White House while Sen. Hillary Clinton fended off attacks from President Bush's outgoing political adviser Karl Rove that voters perceive her too negatively in a debate Sunday in the critical showdown state of Iowa.
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson predicts that the "current strained situation" in the markets "will take time to play out, and more difficult news will come to light. Some investors will take losses, some organizations will fail," he says in remarks that will appear in the forthcoming issue of Fortune.
Nevada is about to get its first true taste of what it's like to be an early presidential testing ground, as Democratic hopefuls descend on the state capital for the kickoff candidate forum of the 2008 campaign.
The head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, had heard of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a former male page a year before they became public, a campaign committee aide told CNN.
So we hear this week that President George W. Bush is taking delight in the spread of the "alternative press" (read conservatives on the internet, in talk radio, in print, and at Fox) and the gentle detumesence of "mainstream media" (read liberal media, or more precisely, Democratic media). Well I join him in his satisfaction.
Former President Clinton believes the Democrats should pounce on and exploit President Bush's refusal to hike taxes to finance Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Armed guards dragged NBC's chief foreign correspondent from a photo-op last month after she asked the President of Sudan a tough question.
Sen. Arlen Specter said Sunday he believes the Senate has enough votes to override a threatened presidential veto of legislation easing restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will visit tsunami-stricken areas in south Asia following a donor conference this week in Jakarta, the United Nations says.
On ABC's "This Week" program Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos picked up a chestnut that's been bouncing around Washington for three months and tossed it in National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's lap.
Howard Dean returns to center stage on the Left Coast today. John Kerry goes dark, taking holiday in Idaho.
ALL TOO HUMAN By George Stephanopoulos Little Brown, 400 pages
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