Ah, ’tis the season for merriment and good will towards others.
Well, not quite–especially when it comes to hunting down bargains and coveted gifts come Xmas time.
This spot starts with a man opening the front doors to a department store. As soon as he turns the key, it’s as if the floodgates have opened with all of humanity pouring through the entrance, trampling the poor storekeeper in the process. His eyeglasses lay shattered next to his laid out body.
Once inside the store, shoppers are scurrying about in a frenzy, resorting to almost anything to get their hands on the merchandise they desire. A woman reaches for snow boots, only to have a shopping cart submarine her out of the picture, enabling another lass to grab the boots.
Similar aggressive behavior is evident most everywhere. For example, though she’s not as spry as she used to be, an elderly lady uses her cane to trip up a young man, separating him for a box he had been holding, which she in turn plans to scoop up for herself.
Outside the store and away from the fray, we see a woman peacefully and safely doing her gift buying, choosing from several New York Lottery game tickets (Polar Pairs, Surprize Package). Indeed the lotto not only has a big payoff (up to $750,000 in some games for the grand prize), but you don’t have to risk your neck to find the proper gift.
“Holiday Shopping” was directed by David Horowitz of Rock Fight, Hollywood, for DDB Worldwide, New York. Ross Richards was the DP.
The DDB team consisted of executive creative director Lee Garfinkel, art director Rich Sharp, copywriter Scott Grayson and producer Teri Altman.
Editor was Clayton Hemmert of Crew Cuts, New York.
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