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    Caffeinated Cool

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    By Christine Champagne

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    Are you dragging through the day? Need a lift? A Starbucks DoubleShot should do the trick. That’s the simple message communicated in a distinctive and cool animated commercial introducing the brand-new Starbucks beverage to consumers. Created by Fallon New York, animated by PSYOP Creative Collective, New York, and featuring music by the band Yo La Tengo-the :30 "Drum"-is actually part of Starbucks’ first-ever national television advertising campaign. (The campaign includes four other ads-all :15s designed to run back-to-back. Two of these promote the familiar Starbucks Frappaccino; the other two tout the Starbucks DoubleShot.) This project also marks Fallon’s first step into the world of animation. Shoot Online subscribers may read this week’s Top Spot of the Week in full by accessing the Current Issue in the Members Area.

    CLIENT

    Starbucks DoubleShot.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    PSYOP Creative Collective,

    New York.

    Todd Mueller, Kylie Matulick, Marie Hyon, creative partners/directors/ designers; Eben Mears and Marco Spier, creative partners; Justin Booth-Clibborn, executive producer; Eliza Pelham Randall, producer; Jason Strougo, technical director; Pakorn Bupphavesa and Marko Vukovic, lighting and texture/environmental animators; John Payne, Jim Gettinger and Marco Spier, lighting and texture; Boris Ustaeve and Kim Lee, camera animators/character animators; Domel Libid, environmental animator/character animator/modeler/ assistant technical director; Jason Goodman, environmental animator/ character animator; Sean Eno, camera animator; Chadd Ferron, character animator; Todd Akita, Gavin Guerra and Tom Cushwa, modelers; Alex Morris, storyboard artist.

    AGENCY

    Fallon New York.

    Kevin Roddy, executive creative director/copywriter; Jeff Hale and Dave Mashburn, art directors; Mark Sitley, head of broadcast production/executive producer; Jenny Gadd Malmstrom, producer.

    EDITORIAL

    PSYOP Creative Collective.

    Daniel Selinger, editor.

    POST

    PSYOP Creative Collective.

    Eben Mears, Flame artist.

    AUDIO POST

    Sound Lounge, New York.

    Tom Jucarone, mixer.

    Quakebasket, New York.

    Tim Barnes, music editor.

    MUSIC

    Yo La Tengo.

    Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew, composers/performers.

    SOUND DESIGN

    Quakebasket.

    Tim Barnes, sound designer.

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    Stage and Film Actor Tony Roberts Dies At 85

    Friday, February 7, 2025

    Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies โ€” often as Allen's best friend โ€” has died. He was 85.

    Roberts' death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter, Nicole Burley.

    Roberts had a genial stage personality perfect for musical comedy and he originated roles in such diverse Broadway musicals as "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967); "Sugar" (1972), an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot," and "Victor/Victoria" (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film. He also was in the campy, roller-disco "Xanadu" in 2007 and "The Royal Family" in 2009.

    "I've never been particularly lucky at card games. I've never hit a jackpot. But I have been extremely lucky in life," he write in his memoir, "Do You Know Me?" "Unlike many of my pals, who didn't know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school."

    Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the 1966 Woody Allen comedy "Don't Drink the Water," repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" (1969), for which he also made the movie.

    Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were "Annie Hall" (1977), "Stardust Memories" (1980), "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987).

    "Roberts' confident onscreen presence โ€” not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane โ€” was the perfect foil for Allen's various neurotic characters, making them more funny and enjoyable to watch," The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.

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