This commercial opens with an upset teenage girl arriving home in the cab of a tow truck. When she enters the house, she joyfully greets her father who is reading the newspaper with his back to the picture window.
After she offers him a bucket of chicken wings and sweetly says she loves him, pop grows suspicious and turns to discover his banged up sports utility vehicle off loaded into the driveway by the flatbed tow truck. His face then pressed up against the window, the father screams as the voiceover asks, “Need a body shop?”
At that point, the logo of the sponsoring body shop appears–and it can be whatever company buys the spot which is being syndicated by PreFab Ads, a subsidiary of Jessen Productions, San Francisco.
“Daddy’s Girl” was written, directed and produced by Chuck Jessen of Jessen Productions. The DP was Vance Piper. Editor was Mike Brand of Emaginate, San Rafael, Calif.
Ad agency veteran Jessen started syndicating TV commercials to auto body shops some 10 years ago. The first such spot, “Sledgehammer,” was shortlisted at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, received Silver recognition from London’s Midsummer Festival, and a Spike Trophy from the International Broadcasting Awards.
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.
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