A tall man in a headless freak Halloween costume tries to eat a scrumptious Dunkin’ Donuts munchkin donut hole but to no avail. Each time he attempts to put the taste treat into his mouth, there’s no mouth for him to deposit it in.
The frustration builds as the man stands in front of a snack table at a Halloween house party. Up comes a girl dressed as a pirate. She looks up at the headless monster who towers over her and assesses, “Not a smart costume choice.”
A voiceover caps this :15 by informing us that tasty, spooky Halloween sprinkled munchkins and donuts are back for a limited time at Dunkin’ Donuts.
This charmingly offbeat spot was directed by Mike Maguire of The Directors Bureau, Hollywood, for Hill Holliday Boston.
Melissa Culligan executive produced for The Directors Bureau, with Katrine Haberstock serving as line producer. The DP was Barry Peterson.
The Hill Holliday ensemble consisted of executive creative director Kevin Moehlenkamp, group creative directors Kevin Daley and Tim Cawley, associate creative director/copywriter Rick McHugh, art director Daren Bult and producer Meghan McGuire.
Editor was Joel Walker of Bubble, Boston.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More