A man bangs the cast on his arm repeatedly against the top of the desk at which he’s seated. He then opens the top drawer of that desk and then closes it forcefully on the cast. He repeats that action several times but to no avail as the cast is still intact.
He gets up from the desk and walks toward the front of what we had presumed to be his office but the camera instead reveals to be a furniture showroom. A couple is seated on some of the furniture for sale; our cast-wearing man looks at them and smiles as if his offbeat behavior never happened. It turns out, though, that he walked toward the showroom just to get a running start as he sprints cast first toward a solid metal door near his desk. He blasts his cast against that door and falls down, having finally succeeded in breaking the cast open–if not breaking his arm again.
The reason for his aberrant behavior then becomes apparent as he pulls a raffle ticket out from the now shattered cast. A janitor approaches the man who feels threatened that he could have his ticket snatched away. A voiceover explains, “Only a limited number of raffle tickets will be sold. Keep yours in a safe place.” The million dollar raffle is being held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Washington State Lottery.
“Broken Arm” is one of two spots in a campaign directed by Jim Hosking of Biscuit Filmworks, Los Angeles, for Publicis in the West, Seattle.
The Publicis team included Publicis USA chief creative officer Bob Moore, executive creative director Rob Rich, group creative director Parag Tembulkar, art director John Meyer, senior copywriter Todd Mitchell, director of broadcast Derek Ruddy and senior producer Mary Ellen Farrar.
Shawn Lacy executive produced for Biscuit, with Caroline Pham serving as line producer. The DP was Marten Tedin.
Editor was Kelly Vander Linda of Collective, Seattle.
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