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George Lois, the hard-selling, charismatic advertising man and designer who fashioned some of the most daring magazine images of the 1960s and popularized such catchphrases and brand names as “I Want My MTV” and “Lean Cuisine,” has died. He was 91.
Lois’ son, the photographer Luke Lois, said he died “peacefully” Friday at his home in Manhattan.
Nicknamed the “Golden Greek” and later (to his displeasure) an “Original Mad Man,” George Lois was among a wave of advertisers who launched the “Creative Revolution” that jolted Madison Avenue and the world beyond in the late 1950s and ’60s. He was boastful and provocative, willing and able to offend, and was a master of finding just the right image or words to capture a moment or create a demand.
His Esquire magazine covers, from Muhammad Ali posing as the martyr Saint Sebastian to Andy Warhol sinking...
George Lois, the hard-selling, charismatic advertising man and designer who fashioned some of the most daring magazine images of the 1960s and popularized such catchphrases and brand names as “I Want My MTV” and “Lean Cuisine,” has died. He was 91.
Lois’ son, the photographer Luke Lois, said he died “peacefully” Friday at his home in Manhattan.
Nicknamed the “Golden Greek” and later (to his displeasure) an “Original Mad Man,” George Lois was among a wave of advertisers who launched the “Creative Revolution” that jolted Madison Avenue and the world beyond in the late 1950s and ’60s. He was boastful and provocative, willing and able to offend, and was a master of finding just the right image or words to capture a moment or create a demand.
His Esquire magazine covers, from Muhammad Ali posing as the martyr Saint Sebastian to Andy Warhol sinking...
- 11/20/2022
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you’re counting the days until Don Draper and “Mad Men” returns for its final half season, you’re not alone. April 5th cannot come soon enough. And though we can’t make the time pass any faster, we can offer a little “Mad Men” tidbit that might help tide you over as you tick the calendar days off one-by-one. Created by Matthew Weiner, and expertly portrayed by Jon Hamm, Don Draper is one of the most complex, mysterious, dysfunctional, needy, broken (anti)heroes on television. He’s an intricate, detailed character worthy of in-depth study for anyone hoping to create an everlasting, memorable protagonist. But is he entirely a work of Weiner’s creation, or does Don Draper have a real-life origin? Vice news recently asked the same question, and if you haven’t heard of George Lois, the answer might surprise you. According to Jane Maas, the...
- 2/24/2015
- by Zach Hollwedel
- The Playlist
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Nyt, BBC, Variety remembers the great Italian actress Virna Lisi who has died at 78 years of age. Best known stateside for the Jack Lemmon comedy How To Murder Your Wife (1965), and maybe that iconic Esquire cover by George Lois (left) which has been homaged ever since, this baby cinephile right here writing to you first fell for her in the French film Queen Margot (1994). She was brilliant as the most ruthless of royals. She won the Cannes prize for Best Actress for her supporting role which probably didn't make Margot herself Isabelle Adjani too happy but they were at odds in the film, too.
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Farewell
Nyt, BBC, Variety remembers the great Italian actress Virna Lisi who has died at 78 years of age. Best known stateside for the Jack Lemmon comedy How To Murder Your Wife (1965), and maybe that iconic Esquire cover by George Lois (left) which has been homaged ever since, this baby cinephile right here writing to you first fell for her in the French film Queen Margot (1994). She was brilliant as the most ruthless of royals. She won the Cannes prize for Best Actress for her supporting role which probably didn't make Margot herself Isabelle Adjani too happy but they were at odds in the film, too.
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Guardian doesn't like the new Annie but what makes that little orphan so durable in pop culture?
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- 12/19/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Though the beginning of 2013 was marked by myriad triumph for Anne Hathaway as awards were being heaped upon her for her performance in Les Misérables, it's also when Hathahate was at its most fervent. In a new interview with Harper's Bazaar, Hathaway told her side of the story, remembering her reaction when she came across an article that asked why everyone hates her. "I was in crisis," she said. "Now I'd be fine. I really would be. I'd let it roll off my back, but at the time I was still partly Fantine. I was still identifying with being a victim.
- 10/9/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW.com - PopWatch
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice, died Sunday. He was 76. He had been stricken with prostate cancer in Toronto, the New Jersey native's adopted home. John Artis, a longtime friend and caregiver, told The Canadian Press that Carter died in his sleep. Carter spent 19 years in prison for three murders at a tavern in Paterson, N.J., in 1966. He was convicted alongside Artis in 1967 and again in a new trial in 1976. Carter was freed in November 1985 when his convictions were set aside after years of appeals and public advocacy. His ordeal and the alleged racial motivations behind it were publicized in Bob Dylan's 1975 song "Hurricane," several books and a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington, who received an Academy Award nomination for playing the boxer turned prisoner. Carter's murder convictions abruptly ended the boxing career of a former petty criminal who...
- 4/20/2014
- by Sandy Cohen (AP)
- Hitfix
Sneak Peek model/actress Bar Refaeli supporting the 2011 "Agua Bendita" swimwear line.
Setting for the shoot was the Stahl House in Hollywood Hills, La, lensed by photographer Juan Algarin.
Refaeli previously co-starred on the 2005 TV series "Pick Up" and in 2008, co-hosted the Bravo special "Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America", based on the book "Ironic Iconic America" by author George Lois.
She returned as a program host in 2009, for MTV's revival of "House of Style".
She stars in the upcoming psychological thriller "Session in Israel", directed by Haim Bouzaglo, following a manipulative psychologist who becomes obsessed with a new patient.
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Setting for the shoot was the Stahl House in Hollywood Hills, La, lensed by photographer Juan Algarin.
Refaeli previously co-starred on the 2005 TV series "Pick Up" and in 2008, co-hosted the Bravo special "Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America", based on the book "Ironic Iconic America" by author George Lois.
She returned as a program host in 2009, for MTV's revival of "House of Style".
She stars in the upcoming psychological thriller "Session in Israel", directed by Haim Bouzaglo, following a manipulative psychologist who becomes obsessed with a new patient.
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- 3/8/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
George Lois, advertising giant whose agency, Papert Koenig Lois, produced a decade of fearless magazine covers for Esquire during the turbulent '60s that are on permanent collection in the MoMA, deserves a homage character in Matthew Weiner's Mad Men so he can silly slap Don Draper. 1962: The fictional Draper is busy seducing secretaries, helping himself to one more drink. In 1962, the real ad king Lois, while on vacation, tried to convince Harold Hayes, the editor of Esquire, to run a cover of the 100th G.I. to be killed in Vietnam, for the December holiday issue. Hayes, convinced as anybody that the minor skirmish would soon be over, nixed the idea. The war went on for twelve more years and within that time Lois produced a black stark cover featuring the bold white text: "Oh, my God - we...
- 10/27/2010
- by Andrea Chalupa
- Huffington Post
Filed under: TV News
Don Draper may be be the big man on campus at Sterling Cooper, but he and his 'Mad Men' crew are coming under fire -- first from from veteran ad executive George Lois, and now from Ad Age editor-in-chief Rance Crain.
In a Monday editorial, Crain criticizes the show for its handling of a cameo from a faux-Ad Age reporter on Sunday's show. In the premiere, which aired July 25, Draper (Jon Hamm) is lunching with a reporter from the publication who asks, "Who is Don Draper?" Ruffled, the handsome exec asks how other people have answered the same question. "They say something cute," the reporter says. "One creative director said [you're] a lion tamer." The reporter is taking notes in shorthand, and tells Draper that his picture "may be bigger than the article."
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Don Draper may be be the big man on campus at Sterling Cooper, but he and his 'Mad Men' crew are coming under fire -- first from from veteran ad executive George Lois, and now from Ad Age editor-in-chief Rance Crain.
In a Monday editorial, Crain criticizes the show for its handling of a cameo from a faux-Ad Age reporter on Sunday's show. In the premiere, which aired July 25, Draper (Jon Hamm) is lunching with a reporter from the publication who asks, "Who is Don Draper?" Ruffled, the handsome exec asks how other people have answered the same question. "They say something cute," the reporter says. "One creative director said [you're] a lion tamer." The reporter is taking notes in shorthand, and tells Draper that his picture "may be bigger than the article."
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- 7/26/2010
- by Anna Dimond
- Aol TV.
Advertising legend looks back on an ad era madder than the '60s! By Abby Tannenbaum The New York Public Library As the fourth season of AMC's Mad Men debuts this weekend, viewers will again look back more than 40 years to see what happens at the fictional Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. All of those nostalgic ads for Popsicles and Clearasil made us wonder what advertising looked like even longer ago--when print media reigned supreme. Fortunately, The New York Public Library owns hundreds of advertising posters from the early 1900s. So we asked real-life ad man George Lois to provide a running commentary on some of the most intriguing ones. The legendary Lois ran his own agency in the 1960s, producing iconic ads for Xerox, Robert Kennedy, and Braniff. He also designed dozens of covers for Esquire magazine that have been installed in the...
- 7/23/2010
- by The New York Public Library
- Huffington Post
Former advertising executive George Lois has criticised AMC drama Mad Men in an article in Playboy magazine. Lois, who worked in the advertising industry during the '60s, claimed that the show ignores the 'creative revolution' occurring at the time. "Mad Men misrepresents the advertising industry by ignoring the revolution that changed the world of communications forever," he wrote. "That mortal sin of omission makes [the show] a lie." He continued: "[It is] is nothing more than a soap opera set in a glamorous office where stylish fools hump their appreciative, coiffured secretaries, suck up martinis and smoke themselves (more)...
- 7/23/2010
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
The August issue of Playboy (on newsstands now) features one real life Advertising man from the "Mad Men" era who is not on the bandwagon of the hit AMC show. The original .Mad Man. . famed ad man George Lois . delivers stinging criticism of the AMC series "Mad Men" in the August issue. In his essay, Lois revels in his personal history from the 1960s, which he claims saw the birth of the Creative Revolution in the advertising industry . a time when art directors and copywriters shined and took the reins from the previously-dominant non-creative hacks and technocrats (aka the guys who are depicted front and center in Mad Men). Here.s what Lois...
- 7/21/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The fourth season of AMC's "Mad Men" premieres on Sunday, July 25. Perfect timing for Playboy to feature one of its stars in its August issue.
Crista Flannagan, who plays Sterling Cooper's switchboard operator Lois Sadler, recreates two classic covers and is featured in an 8-page mid-60s themed pictorial.
The first cover is a recreation of Toni Lacey's November 1960 endeavor, while the second is a racier one (Boy, what a difference a decade can make) from April 1969 featuring Sharon Kristie.
To continue with the theme, the inside spread is accompanied by "It's a Mad World," an essay from real-life '60s ad man George Lois, and advertisements that were run in the men's magazine during that era.
And, yes, Crista's "Mad Men" character was the one driving the John Deere tractor on it's ill-fated ride through the offices last season.
"I know that if they're writing something for me...
Crista Flannagan, who plays Sterling Cooper's switchboard operator Lois Sadler, recreates two classic covers and is featured in an 8-page mid-60s themed pictorial.
The first cover is a recreation of Toni Lacey's November 1960 endeavor, while the second is a racier one (Boy, what a difference a decade can make) from April 1969 featuring Sharon Kristie.
To continue with the theme, the inside spread is accompanied by "It's a Mad World," an essay from real-life '60s ad man George Lois, and advertisements that were run in the men's magazine during that era.
And, yes, Crista's "Mad Men" character was the one driving the John Deere tractor on it's ill-fated ride through the offices last season.
"I know that if they're writing something for me...
- 7/15/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The Alamo Guide
for February 12th, 2010
February! You Are Still Rainy And Cold! I Hate It! Where’s the sun? This is like, the most unromantic weather, February. Why don’t you live up to the holiday you’re known for and show us some freaking love! Nevermind… we’ll just stay inside. Suck it.First of all, we’re opening The Wolfman this Friday at The Ritz! If you wanna see a really hairy, muscley Benicio Del Toro, then this movie is for you! All of our Valentine’s Day Feasts are Sold Out! And if you hate love, even our Love Bites Sing-Along on Valentine’s Day is sold out too. All the more reason for you to proclaim that you “don’t believe in Valentine’s Day because you should love your partner all the time!” and “it’s just a holiday created by Hallmark!” and...
for February 12th, 2010
February! You Are Still Rainy And Cold! I Hate It! Where’s the sun? This is like, the most unromantic weather, February. Why don’t you live up to the holiday you’re known for and show us some freaking love! Nevermind… we’ll just stay inside. Suck it.First of all, we’re opening The Wolfman this Friday at The Ritz! If you wanna see a really hairy, muscley Benicio Del Toro, then this movie is for you! All of our Valentine’s Day Feasts are Sold Out! And if you hate love, even our Love Bites Sing-Along on Valentine’s Day is sold out too. All the more reason for you to proclaim that you “don’t believe in Valentine’s Day because you should love your partner all the time!” and “it’s just a holiday created by Hallmark!” and...
- 2/12/2010
- by caitlin
- OriginalAlamo.com
Exclusive: George Lois, the ad man behind the original "I want my MTV" campaign weighs in on the new logo. "The visuals they're using now are of those silly reality TV people, instead of talent like David Bowie."
We've watched it coming from a mile away, with one reality show after another eclipsing good ol' fashioned music videos, but now it's official: MTV is no longer music television. The new logo is cropped and scaled to fit today's 16:9 aspect ratio TVs versus the old 4:3 standard, and it plays on the old logo's adaptability to promote the network's new favorite breed of programming. Perhaps most notably, the "Music Television" tag is gone.
The original one from 1981 was yellow with a red "TV" (right), but soon changed when station head Bob Pittman decided to fight flagging popularity with a radical ad campaign by George Lois's firm Lois Pitts Gershon: "I want my MTV.
We've watched it coming from a mile away, with one reality show after another eclipsing good ol' fashioned music videos, but now it's official: MTV is no longer music television. The new logo is cropped and scaled to fit today's 16:9 aspect ratio TVs versus the old 4:3 standard, and it plays on the old logo's adaptability to promote the network's new favorite breed of programming. Perhaps most notably, the "Music Television" tag is gone.
The original one from 1981 was yellow with a red "TV" (right), but soon changed when station head Bob Pittman decided to fight flagging popularity with a radical ad campaign by George Lois's firm Lois Pitts Gershon: "I want my MTV.
- 2/11/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
Luke Hayman, the designer behind Time and New York's recent redesigns, shares five insights.
Luke Hayman, a partner at Pentagram, is probably one of the top three magazine designers working today, having done the recent redesigns of New York, Time, and Travel+Leisure. In the wake of the iPad reveal, he's already up with five ways the device will change magazine design. The tastiest, savviest bits:
The end of frequency
Say goodbye to the idea of monthly magazines, or weeklies, or dailies. Print publications, already under siege by the Internet and 24-hour news cycle, will have to learn to adapt to a world of instantaneous updates. This is most obvious for news and business publications, but it's just as true for fashion, entertainment and specialized titles.
A reset on advertising
The mean little conventions of online advertising--banner ads, pop ups, and so forth--aren't popular with readers, with advertisers, and certainly not with designers.
Luke Hayman, a partner at Pentagram, is probably one of the top three magazine designers working today, having done the recent redesigns of New York, Time, and Travel+Leisure. In the wake of the iPad reveal, he's already up with five ways the device will change magazine design. The tastiest, savviest bits:
The end of frequency
Say goodbye to the idea of monthly magazines, or weeklies, or dailies. Print publications, already under siege by the Internet and 24-hour news cycle, will have to learn to adapt to a world of instantaneous updates. This is most obvious for news and business publications, but it's just as true for fashion, entertainment and specialized titles.
A reset on advertising
The mean little conventions of online advertising--banner ads, pop ups, and so forth--aren't popular with readers, with advertisers, and certainly not with designers.
- 1/27/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
With the new season of "Mad Men" here, we started reminiscing about the ad campaigns that Don Draper and crew have worked on, from Kodak to Lucky Strike. The ads vividly evoke the early 1960s--but what really happened to those brands back in the day? When did real life trump "Mad Men"? Read and find out.
With the new season of Mad Men here, we started reminiscing about the ad campaigns that Don Draper and his creatives worked on during the past two seasons. Sterling Cooper has devised ads and identities for such well-known brands as Kodak, Lucky Strike, and Playtex. The campaigns and pitch proposals vividly evoke the early 1960s and serve as key plot points. Would Don and Betty have had all their marital woes last season if not for Sterling Cooper hiring comedian Jimmy Barrett to shill for Utz potato chips and Don using Betty as a...
With the new season of Mad Men here, we started reminiscing about the ad campaigns that Don Draper and his creatives worked on during the past two seasons. Sterling Cooper has devised ads and identities for such well-known brands as Kodak, Lucky Strike, and Playtex. The campaigns and pitch proposals vividly evoke the early 1960s and serve as key plot points. Would Don and Betty have had all their marital woes last season if not for Sterling Cooper hiring comedian Jimmy Barrett to shill for Utz potato chips and Don using Betty as a...
- 8/14/2009
- Fast Company
Which real-life ad-industry stars most resemble the stars of "Mad Men"?
The third season of Mad Men debuts this Sunday, August 16, on AMC. The show's relevance outdistances its actual ratings, especially in the media and advertising worlds in which the show is set. The 60s-era shenanigans of Don Draper, Roger Sterling, and their compatriots is rivaled only by the gossipy fun every Monday morning rehashing their actions--and thinking about how today's ad-industry characters stack up with Madison Avenue fiction. We play "Who Would Play?" with a real-world cast of creative directors and ad magnates.
Don Draper's colleagues and rivals at Sterling Cooper are alternately idolizing him and plotting to topple him. Bbdo North America chief creative officer David Lubars may or may not have knives targeted at his back in-house, but the hype that surrounds him as the new-media creative genius who will drag Madison Avenue into the 21st century...
The third season of Mad Men debuts this Sunday, August 16, on AMC. The show's relevance outdistances its actual ratings, especially in the media and advertising worlds in which the show is set. The 60s-era shenanigans of Don Draper, Roger Sterling, and their compatriots is rivaled only by the gossipy fun every Monday morning rehashing their actions--and thinking about how today's ad-industry characters stack up with Madison Avenue fiction. We play "Who Would Play?" with a real-world cast of creative directors and ad magnates.
Don Draper's colleagues and rivals at Sterling Cooper are alternately idolizing him and plotting to topple him. Bbdo North America chief creative officer David Lubars may or may not have knives targeted at his back in-house, but the hype that surrounds him as the new-media creative genius who will drag Madison Avenue into the 21st century...
- 8/14/2009
- Fast Company
ComingSoon.net has a first look at the new trailer for Art & Copy , opening in limited theaters on August 21st. Directed by Doug Pray, Art & Copy reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising's "creative revolution" of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney and others featured in the film were responsible for "Just Do It," "I Love NY," "Where's the Beef?," "Got...
- 8/10/2009
- Comingsoon.net
The documentary Art & Copy, the advertising documentary about the industry's creative greats and the campaigns that made them will have its New York premiere at IFC on Tuesday, May 5 as part of the One Club's Creative Week.
Truth be told, I could watch an entire film about the legendary art director George Lois (above) while ticking off every curse word uttered by his outrageous pottymouth (it would be an Nc-17 rating). And I would be just as fascinated to sit through a feature-length cultural investigation of the ubiquity of Goodby & Silverstein's Got Milk? knockoffs. Somewhere in between is the documentary Art & Copy, the advertising documentary about the industry's creative greats and the campaigns that made them. The film will have its New York premiere at IFC on Tuesday, May 5 as part of the One Club's Creative Week.
From Bill Bernbach selling the Volkswagen Beetle by telling consumers to “think small,...
Truth be told, I could watch an entire film about the legendary art director George Lois (above) while ticking off every curse word uttered by his outrageous pottymouth (it would be an Nc-17 rating). And I would be just as fascinated to sit through a feature-length cultural investigation of the ubiquity of Goodby & Silverstein's Got Milk? knockoffs. Somewhere in between is the documentary Art & Copy, the advertising documentary about the industry's creative greats and the campaigns that made them. The film will have its New York premiere at IFC on Tuesday, May 5 as part of the One Club's Creative Week.
From Bill Bernbach selling the Volkswagen Beetle by telling consumers to “think small,...
- 3/24/2009
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
Doug Pray has directed documentaries ranging from Hype!, about the exploitation of the grunge music scene in Seattle, to Infamy in 2005, about graffiti culture, to last year's Surfwise, about the surfing Paskowitz family and their eccentric patriarch. Pray's Sundance premiere Art & Copy is a scattershot look at some of the pillars of advertising including George Lois, Lee Clow, Dan Wieden, M ...
- 1/22/2009
- by Kevin Kelly
- Spout
Doug Pray has directed documentaries ranging from Hype!, about the exploitation of the grunge music scene in Seattle, to Infamy in 2005, about graffiti culture, to last year's Surfwise, about the surfing Paskowitz family and their eccentric patriarch. Pray's Sundance premiere Art & Copy is a scattershot look at some of the pillars of advertising including George Lois, Lee Clow, Dan Wieden, Mary We ...
- 1/22/2009
- by Kevin Kelly
- Spout
On the surface, Art & Copy is a tribute to legendary creative minds in advertising, and the process through which they made their most iconic ads. From taglines that became pop touchstones like "Just Do It" and "Got Milk?" to how Mac, Budweiser and Volkswagon went beyond their product and became "lifestyle brands," the charismatic advertisers share how it happened from their point of view, which smacks of self-mythologizing. Not only does the director, Doug Pray, appear to completely buy the mythology presented, but when the film raises moral and ethical questions about advertising, I'm not sure he realizes the questions are even there. The documentary follows a simple structure. An advertising legend (Hal Riney, George Lois, Dan Wieden, David Kennedy, Mary Wells, Rich Silverstein,<st ...
- 1/20/2009
- by Paul Moore
- Spout
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