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    Nonfiction, Jigsaw Have Minutes With Sprint PCS

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    CLIENT

    Sprint PCS.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    Nonfiction Spots, bicoastal.

    Barbara Kopple, director; Jeff Stonehouse, DP; Loretta Jeneski and Michael Degan, executive producers; Jim Shippee, producer. Shot on location in Houston.

    AGENCY

    Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco.

    Kirk Souder, executive creative director; Erin Alvo, creative director/art director; Mark Sweeney, creative director/copywriter; Sam Walsh, senior VP/director of production; Carolyn Casey and Holly Ludwik, producers.

    EDITORIAL

    Jigsaw, Los Angeles.

    Jon Hopp, editor, "Floor Exercise," "Greco Roman" and "Synchronized Swimming"; Jason Painter, editor, "New Swimmer"; Kelly Koppen, assistant editor; Corey Bouvet, executive producer; Stephanie Boggs and Monette Dubin, producers.

    POST/VISUAL EFFECTS

    Jigsaw.

    Mark Leiss, designer.

    Company 3, Santa Monica.

    Stefan Sonnenfeld, colorist; Missy Papageorge, producer.

    AUDIO POST

    Margarita Mix de Santa Monica.

    Nathan Dubin, mixer.

    MUSIC

    Element Music & Sound Design, Santa Monica.

    James O’Brien, composer.

    SOUND DESIGN

    Jigsaw.

    Jon Hopp, sound designer, "Floor Exercise," "Greco Roman" and "Synchronized Swimming"; Jason Painter, sound designer, "New Swimmer."

    THE SPOTS

    Four :30s in an Olympic-themed campaign uses real kids as a metaphor for misleading phone plans in the cellular world. In "New Swimmer," Adam, a new member of a children’s swim team at the Mary Lou Retton Champions Camp, is given a high-tech wetsuit, super turbo fins and swimming legend Mark Spitz as a personal trainer. One boy asks, "Why does he get all that stuff?" The swim coach replies, "Because he’s new." A voiceover and accompanying type describe Sprint PCS’ New for You upgrade program, and the Sprint spokesman tells Mary Lou Retton and a member of the swim team that "everybody should be treated special." Similar spots in the package include "Greco Roman," in which a coach informs some of his young wrestlers that they went over their half-nelson minutes. In "Synchronized Swimming," swimmers are asked how many minutes they need to hold their breath each month, and "Floor Exercise" shows girls who are questioned about their roundoff, flip-flop minutes.

    Spots broke in August.

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    Conan O’Brien To Receive The Mark Twain Prize For Life Achievement In Comedy

    Thursday, January 16, 2025

    Comedian and host Conan O'Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday.

    O'Brien, 61, has carved out an improbable decadeslong career arc, moving from goofy television interloper to comedic elder statesman. Along the way, he survived one of the most public failures in the history of television on "The Tonight Show" — only to launch a successful, and sustained, next act.

    His travel series "Conan O'Brien Must Go" sparked popular and critical acclaim, with a second season coming. In March, O'Brien will host the Academy Awards three weeks before his own Mark Twain ceremony in Washington.

    Deborah Rutter, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in a statement called O'Brien "a master of invention and reinvention, consistently pushing the envelope in search of new comedic heights."

    O'Brien offered his own tongue-in-cheek assessment, saying in the Kennedy Center statement that he would be "the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize recognized not for humor, but for my work as a riverboat pilot." He will be honored on March 23 in a special ceremony in which he will receive a bronze bust of Twain, the iconic American writer and satirist whose real name was Samuel Clemens.

    Mark Twain recipients are honored with a night of testimonials and video tributes, often featuring previous award winners. The ceremony will stream on Netflix at a later date yet to be announced.

    O'Brien leaped into the spotlight from near-total obscurity in 1993, when he was chosen to replace the legendary David Letterman as host of "Late Night" despite no significant on-camera experience. The former Harvard Lampoon editor had spent the previous years as a writer for "Saturday... Read More

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