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    Hope Makes HP (Sound) Waves

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    By Christine Champagne

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    A whisper, a dog bark, a blaring boom box. These are among the sounds that we not only hear but also see in an imaginative new commercial for Hewlett-Packard created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, and directed by Tim Hope of Passion Pictures, London. Hope is represented in the United States by bicoastal Notorious Pictures.

    Titled "Bang & Olufsen," the :30 depicts live-action people in an animated park setting on an overcast day. In the background, we see a modern cityscape. The combination of live action and animation creates an otherworldly environment described by Hope as a "Danish utopia—a kind of pristine, futuristic, northern European heaven."

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    Alexander Cooper, Scott Fleming, Alex Barker, Mouse, Anthony Mark Barrow, John Leveson and Robert Francis were the lead actors in this spot. The SAG/AFTRA Commercials Contract Standing Committee has granted a waiver to allow commercials to be available for viewing on SHOOTonline.com. The spots cannot be copied, downloaded or e-mailed.

    CLIENT

    Hewlett-Packard.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    Passion Pictures, London, in association with Notorious Pictures, bicoastal.

    Tim Hope, director; Alex Barbour, DP; Andrew Ruhemann, executive producer; Russell McClean, producer. Shot on location in London.

    AGENCY

    Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco.

    Rich Silverstein, co-chairman; Steve Simpson and Steve Luker, creative directors; Michael McCommon, copywriter; Steve Goldblatt, art director; Hilary Bradley, senior producer.

    EDITORIAL

    Swordfish, London.

    Tony Kearns, editor.

    POST

    Rushes, London.

    Dominic Aarons, colorist.

    VISUAL EFFECTS

    Glassworks, London.

    Hector McLeod, managing director/effects supervisor; Jay Lichtman and Louisa Thomson, postproduction producers; Duncan Horn, online editor/Inferno artist; Paul Dickson, Gerald Attrill and Niahm Lines, Inferno artists; Anders Thonell, Dimosthenis Vagias, Vaclav Ciskovsky, Tom Stanton and Ariane Geil, 3-D operators.

    AUDIO POST

    Crescendo! Studios, San Francisco.

    Jay Shilliday, mixer/engineer; Rick Friant, assistant engineer.

    MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN

    stimmung, Santa Monica.

    Reinhard Denke and Gus Koven, sound designers; Michael Baird, assistant sound designer; Ceinwyn Clark, executive producer.

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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 — often as Allen's best friend — 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 — not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane — 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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