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(34,053 posts) Wed Jan 8, 2014, 12:42 AM Jan 2014

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spicy meatball (Original Post) orleans Jan 2014 OP

I remember it… Why can't they make commercials like this anymore? MrMickeysMom Jan 2014 #1

Love the epitaph! MrMickeysMom Jan 2014 #3

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1. I remember it… Why can't they make commercials like this anymore?

Wed Jan 8, 2014, 01:05 AM

Jan 2014

Everybody remembered that commercial… AND AlkaSeltzer, too!

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2. in answer to your question "why can't they make commercials like this anymore?"

Wed Jan 8, 2014, 01:47 AM

Jan 2014

simple answer:
because he died.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=34155984&PIpi=56619244

and this puts his epitaph into persepctive

"When Time magazine dubbed Mr. Zieff the "Master of the Mini-Ha-Ha" in 1967, he had made 200 commercials over the previous six years."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-02-25/news/0902240581_1_off-screen-director-meatball-eating-ronda-gomez-quinones

but i can only find a couple. here's a few more:

the funeral:

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3. Love the epitaph!

Wed Jan 8, 2014, 07:26 PM

Jan 2014