A man and a woman are in a store aisle, sniffing scented candles. The woman is holding a waterfall candle which she smells and then places in front of her hubby/significant other’s nose. He reciprocates with a cinnamon seashell candle.
“Oh, I like it,” says the woman.
“Isn’t that good?” he concurs but then suddenly stops dead in his tracks, looking sheepish and embarrassed by something he sees further down the aisle.
It turns out this quasi-aroma therapy session has been witnessed by a young father and his son who are wearing Texas Rangers’ baseball jerseys.
The man holding the candle slowly puts it back on the shelf, realizing he’s been outed as a wuss.
A super appears on screen which reads, “You could use some baseball.”
An end tag carries the Rangers logo.
“Candles” is part of a Rangers’ TV campaign directed and shot by Stewart Cohen via Directorz, Dallas, for agency Door Number 3, Austin.
The agency team included creative director/copywriter/art director Prentice Howe and producer Ed Parsons.
Howe noted that “Candles” came “from a very personal place. I’ve been there with my wife having that very same moment when all of a sudden you realize it’s time to reassess your Saturday afternoon activities. This campaign is a humorous, yet honest look at how people spend their time. It pulls them back to the baseball experience with a friendly splash of cold water to the face.”
The spot was edited by Travis Aitken of 501 Post, Austin.
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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