#cadillac commercial

[bradyoil]

EP Scott Dodoro's Journey Launching Local Boy Productions.

Executive Producer Scott Dodoro shares how his passion for film led to starting Local Boy Productions after over a decade working for another company. Local Boy, by the way, is a full service production company in Detroit, built for the future. He discusses building his roster of directors and tackling big projects for Buick, Cadillac and GMC> Golly we even talk about using AI in spots. Scott…

[vintagelasvegas]

Club Bingo became the Sahara. Photos c. 1948 and 1952.

Timeline of Club Bingo and Sahara Hotel & Casino

Club Bingo, predecessor of Sahara

‘46: M.D. Close builds a restaurant on this site; sold a year later to Prewin Inc (Milton Prell, Al Winter).

‘47: Club Bingo opens 7/24/47. Prell, Winter & partners, owners. Wurdeman & Becket, architects. Signs by YESCO.

‘48: Bonanza Room opens in May, signs added.

‘49: New sign by YESCO and Aloysius McDonald.

‘52: Club Bingo closed in May. Club Bingo’s main building incorporated into the Sahara as the coffee shop. Casino items sold to the public in June.

Sahara Hotel & Casino

‘52: Sahara opened 10/7/52. 200 rooms. Prell, Winter & partners, owners. Max Meltzman, architect. Built by Del Webb Corp.

‘55: 200-room, low-rise expansion on the south side of the resort.

‘60: 14-story, 200-room Tunis Tower addition opened in May. (600 rm total.) M. Stern Jr, architect. Built by Del Webb Corp. Tunis tower said to be Nevada’s tallest building. 127-ft sign by YESCO added in Fall.

‘61: Sahara, The Mint, and Lucky Strike Club sold to Del Webb Corp, under new subsidiary, Sahara-Nevada Corp. First public company to own casinos.

‘62: New main lobby, casino expansion, House of Lords steakhouse addition.

‘63: 24-floor Alexandria Tower addition. M. Stern Jr, architect. Don the Beachcomber addition.

‘68: Convention Center addition.

‘78: 26-floor Tangiers Tower addition. M. Stern Jr, architect.

‘80: Second sign, by YESCO

‘82: Sahara sold to Paul Lowden.

‘88: Parking garage, “T” extension of Tangiers Tower.

‘95: Sold to Gordon Gaming.

‘96: Beginning of a renovation and rebuild project that lasted through 2000. Last of the ‘50s-era low rise rooms demolished in 3/96, replaced with new porte-cochere and parking garage; New sign with two camels with matching signage on the Paradise Rd entrance all by Jack M. Larsen Jr. & Mikhon Lighting and sign (‘97); Speedworld addition (‘97); Speed-The Ride roller coaster addition (2000).

2007: Sold to SBE Ent & Stockbridge.

2011: Sahara closed.

2014: Reopened as SLS Hotel. Tunis, Alexandria, and Tangiers towers renamed Sam, Society, and Citizen. Society tower becomes W Hotel 2017-2018.

2018: Sold to Meruelo Group.

2019: renamed Sahara.

Photos of Club Bingo / Photos of Sahara

Club Bingo & Sahara photos both likely by Las Vegas News Bureau. ‘41 and ‘51 Cadillac in the Sahara photo. First Sahara photo from the Manis Collection, UNLV Special Collections. Photo below is a scan from a commercial 35mm slide, Vintage Las Vegas collection.

Sources include: Becket Architectural Drawings and Photographs, Getty Research Institute; Close Property on Highway 91 Sold for Club. Review-Journal, 5/2/47 p3; Strip Values. Review-Journal, 8/9/55 p3; Modern Room Design. Review-Journal, 5/26/60; Skybound at Sahara. Review-Journal, 9/15/60; Associated Press. Sahara’s Merger Plan Gains Okay. Review-Journal, 7/19/61; Jude Wanniski. Yanks Boss Vetoes Vegas Named Tie-In. Review-Journal, 7/21/61.

[akssy]

Robert Pattinson filming a Dior Homme commercial in a vintage Cadillac in New York City

[detroitlib]

View of a 1933 Essex Terraplane 8 Series KT Deluxe sedan at the Book Cadillac Hotel. Stamped on back: "B.G. Miller, commercial photographer. Phone Hogarth 5159. 4373 Waverly Ave., Detroit, Mich." Handwritten on back: "July 11/33. Essex Terraplane 8 Deluxe sedan. Taken at Book Cadillac Hotel."

National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

[somethin-stupid-67]

BCS HC's because I've been up all night and the brain rot is unreal

JIMMY/SAUL:

(More Saul?) Loves himself a cocktail, the sweeter the better. Fruity cocktails for a fruity little man. Only thing he can’t stand about them is how overpriced they are, no matter where he orders them.

Very strongly considered buying rings when he married Kim. Something about the symbolism stuck with him and really wanted their marriage, business arrangement or not, to present as more “socially official.” Would’ve definitely had them engraved with Wexler-McGill on the inside of the bands, too.

Eventually became pretty good at the guitar. Still struggles with tuning it and has, on more than one occasion, had a meltdown while attempting to replace broken strings.

Loves his white Cadillac, but definitely misses his Esteem.

KIM:

Smokes whatever cigarettes are on hand but is a ride-or-die menthol enjoyer.

The only person allowed to call her “Kimmy” is her mother. Jimmy tried once and wound up in a long,  long conversation about her distaste of the nickname.

Similarly, she doesn’t go by her full first name (at least professionally) because she feels it’s too preppy/thinks Kimberly Wexler sounds too much like the name of a ditzy blonde side character in a John Hughes movie.

Talkative drunk. Will have a conversation with anyone about nearly anything. Out for drinks and there’s a game on TV? She’s chatting up the nearest patron about every. single. play. Song she recognizes comes on the radio? She’s breaking down the lyrics, symbolism, and the artist’s motivation for writing it. Will apologize profusely the next morning for “talking too much.” Jimmy, naturally, finds it absolutely adorable and insists she shouldn’t feel bad.

NACHO:

Extremely shy as a child!

Grew up listening to/singing along with classic Mexican love songs and sings them softly to himself when completing any sort of task that doesn’t require a lot of focus. Very few people have actually heard him sing, but those who have all tell him he has a lovely voice.

He’d be lying if he said he disliked Lalo calling him “Nachito.”

Huge fan of an ice-cold Coke Zero.

Easily cries at tv shows and movies, most notably if there’s a trope pertaining to a father and son. Less than five seconds into a commercial for the ASPCA/Humane Society and he has tears in his eyes.

LALO:

In the rare instances he’s able to sleep more than an hour or two at a time, he snores. LOUD. Like, keeping the house up half the night loud.

If it wasn’t for his responsibilities to the “family business,” he would have pursued work as either a professional chef or professional hitman. Yes, the two couldn’t be farther from each other. Yes, they somehow both make total sense.

Would’ve 1000% slept with Nacho or Jimmy if the situation presented itself.

Opposite to Nacho, he was an extremely outgoing child. He was the type of kid to wander off with other children or walk up to total strangers and introduce himself.

Initially bothered by how quickly his hair went grey, but once he found out women (and men) thought it made him more attractive he never gave it a second thought.

HOWARD:

Strong aversion to water. He’ll get into a swimming pool and that’s about it, but even then he won’t go out farther than he can stand. His fear of drowning is the only thing preventing him from becoming a triathlete.

Keeps a photo of his parents in his wallet.

Definitely has anxiety. His tells used to be much more obvious when he first became an attorney (leg bouncing, shakiness in voice) but he has since been able to control it, most of the time. It’s a part of what keeps him up at night, why he’ll always opt for tea, and why he picked up boxing and cycling. It almost never interferes with his work the way it once did, but every now and again he can be seen swiftly pacing around his office or picking the skin around his fingers.

Despite his agility/flexibility, he’s an absolutely terrible dancer. Even in a bout of romance, an after-dinner slow dance in his own home proves he has two left feet.

Mailroom Era Jimmy definitely called him “Pretty Boy” to piss him off. It made him blush and/or stutter every time without fail and it took both Chuck and his father to convince him that Jimmy was insulting him and didn’t mean it as a compliment.

[eljeebee]

Ugh, I was meant to send you an ask and I darn well forgot, thanks fatigue. Any way, writing exercise. What is each of your characters preferred method of travel (cycling, bus, car, train, plane, teleport, whatever)?

I LOVE YOU KIRSTY!!!

Let's start with my agents:

Agents

Both Priscilla and Albert prefers traveling by car in land. Of course, Moumou is with them in the car.

Tony prefers his motorcycle when traveling alone, but he becomes the driver when he's with his wife and/or Albert (and Moumou!).

All three prefers to travel by private jet provided by their organization if traveling by air. Moumou just tags along.

DLU

For our college students, Louie, Sid, Julie, and Seamus prefers bicycle within the campus.

Individually, Louie and Sid prefers train. San Sequoia has a subway in Anchorpoint Wharf after all!

Coming from a royal family, Julie and Seamus prefers car, either driven by Bernie or Penny. Seamus has been practicing driving car and motorcycle too (he has a motorcycle back in their Del Sol Valley chateau).

Jason, Sophia, and Mason also prefers train. They're near the subway after all. They will also take point to point buses to reach their destinations.

Margaux likes to travel by car and plane (fortunately, she still have privileges to use the royal private jet from time to time, but since she tries to detach from the family, she usually flies first class in commercial planes). Bernie is the same as Margaux, but if possible, he'd prefer to travel by ship, or through his own superyacht. Penny likes cruise, ship, boats, yacht or whatever vessel she could travel in the ocean.

Most of my vampires prefer to travel with their Vampiric powers. Specifically:

Valentina and Percival Asvang travels as bats;

The Beau Sisters, the Aurums, and Helen and Vladislaus Straud travel by mist; and

The Vatores will use their vampiric speed.

However, they will only do this out of plain sight and if necessary. Because of this, Lana Beau will travel with whatever vehicle screams luxury. She travels in a Rolls-Royce that she personally drives (and with her sister, occasionally). Percy once asked if he could drive it. She barred him from doing that and bought him a Ducati ("Here's a toy for you. Don't touch mine, alright?") She'll travel with private jet too, if flying out of the country. She likes to boast her very old money.

The rest either has their own vehicles, like Valentina, who has a Cadillac sedan, Percy with his Ducati, and the Strauds with their Ford SUV (Caleb is the driver), or some of them will commute, like the Vatores and Helen, and Yvonne.

The Aurums are the exception. They always use their power to move around. To keep themselves out of sight, they will cast a charm around themselves.

The Coveys commutes by train, (trains in San Myshuno!) while Lavender Lee prefers taking the bus.

The Fengs prefers to travel by car, and business class in planes.

Bonus:

The Eyes of the Watcher prefers to travel by foot. It helps them practice discipline. The vampire Seeker, when necessary, will travel as a bat. When unable, they will utilize public transport.

[kemetic-dreams]

Clara Mae Ward was born April 21, 1924, achieved great artistic and commercial success during the 1940s and 1950s, as leader of The Famous Ward Singers. A gifted singer and arranger, Ward adopted the lead-switching style, previously used primarily by male gospel quartets, creating opportunities for spontaneous improvization and vamping by each member of the group, while giving virtuoso singers such as Marion Williams the opportunity to perform the lead vocal in songs such as "Surely, God Is Able" (among the first million-selling gospel hits), "How I Got Over" and "Packin' Up".

Ward's mother, Gertrude Mae Ward founded the Ward Singers in 1931 as a family group, then called, variously, The Consecrated Gospel Singers or The Ward Trio, consisting of herself, her youngest daughter Clara, and her elder daughter, Willarene Mae ("Willa"). Ward recorded her first solo song in 1940, and continued accompanying the Ward Gospel Trio, thereafter.

The Ward Singers began touring nationally in 1943, following a memorable appearance at the National Baptist Convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earlier that year.[2] Henrietta Waddy joined the group in 1947. Waddy brought to the group a "rougher" alto sound and the enthusiastic stage manners learned from her South Carolina Pentecostal church background. The group's performance style, such as the mimed packing of suitcases as part of the song "Packin' Up", condemned by some gospel music purists as "clowning", was wildly popular with their audiences. The addition of Marion Williams, who arose of the Miami, Florida Pentecostal tradition brought to the group a powerful singer with a preternaturally broad range, able to reach the highest registers of the soprano range without losing either purity or volume, with the added ability to descend "growling low notes" in the style of a country preacher. Williams' singing style helped make the group nationally popular when they began recording in 1948.[2]

In 1949, the Ward Singers toured from Philadelphia to California in their new Cadillac, appeared on national television programs, and recorded for the Miltone Record Company of Los Angeles. The Miltone recordings were purchased in a multi-artist package by Gotham Record Company, which had moved to Philadelphia. Gotham's Irv Ballen recorded some new Ward material, including "Surely God Is Able", and some of the Ward Singers' Gotham recordings were transferred to Savoy Record Company in Newark, New Jersey to settle a contract dispute. When Savoy began contracting with the Ward Singers for new recordings in the 1950s, they were primarily recorded and engineered in Bergen County, New Jersey, by Rudy Van Gelder. In 1950, Clara Ward and the Famous Ward Singers of Philadelphia made their first Carnegie Hall appearance on a gospel program titled Negro Music Festival, produced by gospel music pioneer, Joe Bostic, sharing the stage with Mahalia Jackson, appearing at the famed venue for Bostic's program in 1952, as well.[2]

Gertrude Ward created a booking agency for gospel acts, sponsored tours under the name "The Ward Gospel Cavalcade", established a publishing house for gospel music, and wrote an instructional manual for churches, detailing how to promote gospel programs. Gertrude created and managed a second group, "The Clara Ward Specials", to accompany the Ward Singers. Although as musical director of the Ward franchise, Clara was willing to share the spotlight with her talented co-singers, she and her mother were allegedly reticent about sharing the group's financial rewards with other members, as well. According to Willa Ward's biography of Clara Ward, with the exception of Gertrude and Clara, Willa and other members of the group were grossly underpaid. In addition, their meager earnings were further reduced as Gertrude and Clara provided the group's housing and charged them for it. Accordingly, stars such as Marion Williams and Frances Steadman not only had to accept second billing and lesser pay for their work, but pay their employers rent out of their earnings.

Williams left the group in 1958, when her demand for a raise and reimbursement for hotel expenses was rejected. She was followed shortly thereafter by the rest of the group—Henrietta Waddy, Esther Ford, Frances Steadman and Kitty Parham—who formed a new group, "The Stars of Faith". Their departure marked the end of the glory days for the Ward Singers, who later alienated much of their churchgoing audience by performing in Las Vegas, nightclubs, and other secular venues in the 1960s. By this time, gospel singer Albertina Walker formed her group, The Caravans, in 1952, following the advice of her mentor Mahalia Jackson,[1] and their group began to grow in popularity. In 1963, Clara Ward was the second gospel singer to sing gospel songs on Broadway in Langston Hughes' play Tambourines To Glory(The first being her former group members, which were known as the Stars of Faith, which starred Langston Hughes in the first Gospel stage play and first play that featured an all black cast to be produced on Broadway, The Black Nativity.). She was also the play's musical director.

Ward was the first gospel singer to sing with a 100-piece symphony orchestra in the 1960s. The Clara Ward Singers recorded an album together on the Verve label, V-5019, The Heart, The Faith, The Soul of Clara Ward, and the Ward Singers performed their music live in Philadelphia with the city's Symphony and the Golden Voices Ensemble. Ward sang backup for pop artists with her sister Willa's background group, most notably on Dee Dee Sharp's hit, "Mashed Potato Time", which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. In 1969, Ward recorded an album for Capitol Records, Soul and Inspiration, consisting of pop songs from Broadway plays, Hollywood movies and the Jimmy Radcliffe song of hope "If You Wanna Change The World". The album was later reissued on the Capitol's budget Pickwick label minus one track. In the same year, she recorded an album in Copenhagen, Denmark on the Philips label, Walk A Mile In My Shoes, which included the pop title song, other pop songs (such as "California Dreaming") and a few gospel songs.

Ward also recorded an album for MGM/Verve, Hang Your Tears Out To Dry, which included country and Western, blues/folk, pop and an arrangement of the Beatles' hit song, "Help". Her 1972 album Uplifting on United Artists, produced by Nikolas Venet and Sam Alexander, included an interpretation of Bill Wither's pop hit "Lean On Me" and a rearrangement of the Soul Stirrer's 1950's recording of "Thank You, Jesus". Also in 1972 Ward, because she was under exclusive contract to United Artists at this time, provided vocals for a Canned Heat's album The New Age, on the ballad "Lookin' For My Rainbow"; it was released on that album and as a single 45 rpm record.

In 1968, The Clara Ward Singers toured Vietnam at the request of the U.S. State Department and the U.S.O. It was a popular war-time tour supported by recorded radio broadcasts of the Ward Singers on U.S. Armed Forces Radio. The Ward Singers narrowly missed death when their hotel in Vietnam was bombed and several guests died. Ward was invited back to Vietnam by U.S.O. in 1969 for several more months. These war-time tours were filmed and all the Ward Singers were given special certificates of recognition by the U.S. Army.

Ward co-starred in the Hollywood movie A Time to Sing, starring Hank Williams, Jr., Shelley Fabares, Ed Begley, and D'Urville Martin. She was cast as a waitress in a Nashville, Tennessee cafeteria who inspires a young singer, played by Hank Williams, Jr., to pursue his dream of becoming a country recording artist. There are also several scenes of the Clara Ward Singers performing gospel songs in the film. This movie was released by MGM in 1968 and Clara's picture appears on lobby cards and other movie advertisements. Other movie appearances include Its Your Thing, starring The Isley Brothers, and Spree, also known as Night Time In Las Vegas. The Clara Ward Singers toured in Australia, Japan, Europe, Indonesia, and Thailand during the late-1960s through the early-1970s. They had a one-day TV special in London, England. They were in constant demand on American television programs and appeared on The Mike Douglas Show over a dozen times. They appeared on Oral Roberts' Country Roads TV special, later released as a soundtrack album. Clara continued to perform at her mother's church, the Miracle Temple of Faith for All People in Los Angeles, California, as well as at Victory Baptist Church. Her mother, Gertrude Ward, also had a popular religious radio program in the Los Angeles market.

[goatsludge]

Scott HydroPak Full-Face Diving Mask

A mask that's been on @scp-291's bucket list for some time, and now he finally owns.

These were a commercially-available shallow diving mask in the late 1950's though presumably the 70's during the height of the postwar infatuation with the rapidly maturing sport of scuba diving (or 'lung diving', as it was then known). They were very expensive in their time (costing well over $2,600 USD when adjusted for inflation) and did not sell very well as a result.

These would have come with a proprietary backpack and air cylinder in either single or double tank configuration.

Among the more interesting features of the mask is the surface snorkel present on the second stage regular on the left-hand side of the mask, which allows the wearer to breathe ambient air while on the surface to preserve the air supply.

The same regulator also featured a purge button to eject water from the facepiece. A common feature now, but a fairly novel idea during the era when double hose regulators were king.

A handful of specially-made units were also utilized by the U.S. Navy for a short period.

While missing the tank, backpack, and breathing hose, our example is in mint, possibly diveable condition. It is still dirty with factory rubber preservative and has a bit of permanent set to the facial seal from improper storage, but this ultimately does not affect its function.

These definitely earn the title of "The Cadillac Coupe de Ville of Diving Masks".

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

To hell with the New York Times's top 25 commercial/luxurious travel experiences. You can have your own. Here's some of mine, and reflecting on them makes me feel quite replete and not in need of any gourmet well-beaten trails. I hope you have yours.

--travel the pilgrimage trail of St. Jacques de Compostelle from Paris to the Spanish border as a teenage art historian, with the great Mme Francoise Weinman interpreting, 1978. 

 --bathe in a bathtub on a hillside on Western Shoshone land above matriarchs and federal challengers Mary and Carry Dann's ranch in eastern Nevada while listening to Lucinda Williams for the first time (music courtesy of Lauri Di, who then gave me the homemade cassette), 1991. 

--raft trip on assignment for Sierra Magazine, 1995, in a roadless wilderness the size of Portugal in NE British Columbia, where the whole community of wildlife was living its many lives largely undisturbed.

--Dance all night in the streets of Paris, Fete de la Musique, circa 1998, be serenaded by Timothy O'Toole's brother with Marianne Faithful's "Ballad of Lucy Jordan" in parting. (Research for Wanderlust was the official reason to be there.)

--Seattle Nov. 30-Dec. 1, when the protest in the streets galvanized the poor countries to resist the World Trade Organization's bullying on behalf of the rich corporations and countries and the fate of the world took a left turn. "When hope and history rhyme." Thank you David Solnit, who had a lot to do with it. 

--Hike with Lucy Lippard to the remote valley whose entrance is framed by two great natural stone slabs on each of which a life-sized cornstalk petroglyph appears; take Barry Lopez to see the life-size bear petroglyph nearby and the giant zig-zag snake petroglyphs, get drenched in a monsoon rain together, New Mexico circa 1999-2001 or so

--Multiple times participating in the Good Friday pilgrimage to Chimayo, NM, circa 1998-2010, witnessing the landscape, the devotion and dedication, the generosity, and the low-rider Cadillac of the stations of the cross. 

--find the exact places Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston stood to make their iconic pictures of Yosemite with Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe (in what became our book Yosemite in Time), and camp out in the supremely serene jeffrey pine forest south of Mono Lake while working on the project, 2001-4

--repeat visits to New Orleans to first understand the terrible things of Hurricane Katrina and then fall in love with the wonderful culture and dance in various second lines, etc., 2006 onward....

--Zapatista Women's Encuentro, late Dec.-January 1, Chiapas, Mexico, with Marina Sitrin and Sam Sitrin

--Iceland, summer of 2008 (partly melancholy, but studded with epiphanies): "I traveled a little, and on the south coast of Iceland had one magnificent midsummer day that began with a long walk on a path edged with tiny flowers past the largest glacier in Europe, went on to a bay in which the glacier was calving icebergs that were vivid blue in a blue inlet of the sea, and then traversed a long strand of wet sand that reflected the white clouds and blue sky so that heaven and earth were indistinguishable, and the clouds overhead seemed to be almost close enough to touch and those near the horizon seemed to be very near infinity. It was as close to a vision of paradise as I’ve been granted with my eyes open. After that I saw another bay full of hundreds of swans and a steep valley through which dozens of thin waterfalls trickled and poured from the heights. That day ended at a robin’s nest Klara showed me in the low willows in the quiet light at midnight, five small mottled eggs like turquoise stones." 

--first visit to David Rumsey's map collection, San Francisco, with David's visionary insight into cartography....-

-two weeks aboard a Swedish vessel circumambulating Svalbard in the high Arctic, 2011

--Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, raft trip, summer solstice, 2014 (also working as a journalist), but also thank you Michael Brune and Dan Ritzman https://www.theguardian.com/.../alaska-wildlife-sanctuary...

--Mt Burdell in green winter splendor, over so many years...

--wake up at Standing Rock to see thousand of joyful people celebrating their determination and solidarity on the great green prairie, 2016 (I went there to report for the Guardian, all too briefly)

--Traveling with Dolpo Tulku rimpoche through Dolpo, the Tibetan plateau/Buddhist land in which he is the spiritual leader, fall 2017, with Roshi Joan Halifax and various others, and doing another version of that route in 2015 that repeats Peter Matthiesson's in The Snow Leopard, including being welcomed into Shey Gompo, and seeing people engaged in daily life on almost medieval terms: plowing with yaks, threshing and reaping and winnowing by hand, traveling on foot or by beast, weaving on wooden looms, tending livestock, crossing high passes up to 17,600' high, spending a month on foot (and occasionally horse)....

--the enchanting walk from the Baldock train station to the cottage Orwell lived in 1936-1940s, through wheat fields full of flints formed undersea and rural rights of way, crossing the ancient Icknield Way (returning to where I first met those roses he planted, if they're his, on Nov. 2, 2017), 2019, walking it again this summer with Rob Macfarlane, 2022

--So many mornings of glorious light at Ocean Beach, because like all of you I also live in the destination.

--camping with my great-nieces who make everything new and exciting again. p.s. Just a reminder: I have had adventures, but my everyday life is staying home quietly turning words around and trying to make meaning with them.

[Rebecca Solnit ]

[mrchalamet-mrstyles]

Honest question because I can’t get my head around it. Why do you think did Tim agree to to a commercial for AppleTV? As your other anon pointed out he’s so careful and won’t even do magazine covers unless he sees a real benefit. He also said last year that he promised himself he wouldn’t cash in and do ads or similar things. Do you have any idea?

Why did he do the Cadillac commercial last year? It's exposure without over-saturation. I think covid changed the game in more ways than we will ever know. Doing a coercial for one of the biggest and esteemed streaming services is smart. Tim always has a plan and I think in the long run we will learn the why of it.

[mandajiu]

I got the finest of coincidence candy for you, even better than getting low (Loewe and 30 going to Spain to presumably film a Realme cellphone commercial, but as Madrid is the headquarters of Loewe it is logical to guess he might have met reps there)

ANYWAY,

I've been hearing rumors about a possible car endorsement. Since Cadillac just shared a video of the NBY trailer, I'm assuming the car used in the drama is from that brand - so I'm guessing this could be a new endorsement? That's the fuzzy part.

The clear part.

Recall that really very sensual song with the Lux photoshoot with the green exit sign? Do you remember the lyrics? Let me refresh your memory (Note: these particular lyrics are part of the song not featured as it was a remix, but many know this song):

Grind Me Down - Lilliana Wilde

Lyrics

Grind me down, roll me up Press me up against your lips Let me fill, fill your lungs Then breathe me out California grown, rap songs You see the best comes out the west Let me blur, blur your lines You won't regret it

I'll take you to the moon and back Back seat of my Cadillac

Start out slow then play it faster I'll fly you out to paradise Take a hit and close your eyes I know what you fantasize about

lol The sheep fans can also drink the moon. 30 fans can do the same because of the aerospace thing for Weibo night.

Protect the children!

[chocolatessss]

Commercial new Cadillac suv. What u think

[luxury777carrental]

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·        Coupe:

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REMEMBER THE PINK CADILLACS?

Business leader and entrepreneur Mary Kathlyn Wagner was born on May 12, 1918, in Hot Wells, Texas.

Ash was a pioneer for women in business, building a substantial cosmetics empire.

In 1939, Ash became a salesperson for Stanley Home Products, hosting parties to encourage people to buy household items.

She was so good at making the sale that she was hired away by another company, World Gifts, in 1952.

Ash spent a little more than a decade at the company, but she quit in protest after watching yet another man that she had trained get promoted above her and earn a much higher salary than hers.

Ash wanted everyone in the organization to have the opportunity to benefit from their successes.

Sales representatives—Ash called them consultants—bought the products from May Kay at wholesale prices and then sold them at retail price to their customers.

They could also earn commissions from new consultants that they had recruited.

Commercial Success

All of her marketing skills and people savvy helped make Mary Kay Cosmetics a very lucrative business.

The company went public in 1968, but it was bought back by Ash and her family in 1985 when the stock price took a hit.

The business itself remained successful and now annual sales exceed $2.2 billion, according to the company's website.

At the heart of this profitable organization was Ash's enthusiastic personality.

She was known for her love of the color pink and it could be found everywhere, from the product packaging to the Cadillacs she gave away to top-earning consultants each year.

She seemed to sincerely value her consultants, and once said "People are a company's greatest asset."

Entrepreneurial Venture

After her bad experiences in the traditional workplace, Ash set out to create her own business at the age of 45.

She started with an initial investment of $5,000 in 1963.

She purchased the formulas for skin lotions from the family of a tanner who created the products while he worked on hides.

With her son, Richard Rogers, she opened a small store in Dallas and had nine salespeople working for her.

Today there are more than 1.6 million salespeople working for Mary Kay Inc. around the world.

The company turned a profit in its first year and sold close to $1 million in products by the end of its second year driven by Ash's business acumen and philosophy.

The basic premise was much like the products she sold earlier in her career. Her cosmetics were sold through at-home parties and other events.

But Ash strove to make her business different by employing incentive programs and not having sales territories for her representatives.

She believed in the golden rule "treat others as you want to be treated," and operated by the motto: God first, family second and career third.

Personal Life

While she stepped down from her position as CEO of the company in 1987, Ash remained an active part of the business. She established the Mary Kay Charitable Foundation in 1996.

The foundation supports cancer research and efforts to end domestic violence.

In 2000, she was named the most outstanding woman in business in the 20th century by Lifetime Television.

The cosmetics mogul died on November 22, 2001, in Dallas, Texas.

By this time, the company she created had become a worldwide enterprise with representatives in more than 30 markets.

She will be best remembered for building a profitable business from scratch that created new opportunities for women to achieve financial success.

Married three times, Ash had three children—Richard, Ben and Marylyn—by her first husband, J. Ben Rogers.

The two divorced after Rogers returned from serving in World War II. Her second marriage to a chemist was brief; he died of a heart attack in 1963, just one month after the two had gotten married.

She married her third husband, Mel Ash, in 1966, and the couple stayed together until Mel's death in 1980.

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F1 is an engineering sport

The problem here is automotive sport is not like other sports. Adding an F1 team from cadillac, who hasn't made a good car in decades, and definitely not a great engine, will not improve the league. Cadillac can't make a better car than mercedes or ferrari. And Redbulls is uisng ford motor engines soon. Renault is an economy class car company. I concur to the assessment. Andretti + Cadillac want the f1 brand to help them. But they will not compete. People don't comprehend , automotive sport is not just about drivers, it is about engineering, and the costly nature of engineering. An F1 car's engine first and foremost is not something you see on the street, the design, the materials, the design is particular. I only know one firm that makes a car that is open wheel and legal to race in the street. I am not convinced. And besides, why can't andretti make their team for indy car? or better for the super formula series based in japan? They can easily prove their quality by dominating indy and superformula but they can't cause you can't hype your way in motorsport. Your car's quality will be exposed , especially that engine.

Lastly, this is the price of being sold to a USA firm. From FIFA and the world cup to FIA and F1 it seems the USA wants a greater role or influence in these sports absent quality or merit in the field itself, just using its power outside the sport to bully its way in.

What do you think?

THE ARTICLE Liberty Media is under investgation over anti-trust violations after denying Andretti F1 bid nathan brown, indianapolis star Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 11:01 AM EDT

Three months after receiving letters from members of the U.S. Congress -- including one from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee -- scolding and questioning their decision to deny Andretti Global and Cadillac the chance to join the Formula 1 grid in 2025 or 2026, Libery Media noted in a quarterly earnings call Thursday that it is facing an investigation from the U.S. Department of Justice for related anti-trust violations.

Greg Maffei, the CEO of the Colorado-based company that, through its subsidiary Formula One Management owns the commercial rights to the F1 World Championship, noted on the call that Liberty Media would cooperate with the DOJ and was confident Liberty hadn't run afoul of any regulations regarding its Andretti decision.

"We believe our determination, F1's determination, was in compliance with all applicated U.S. antitrust laws, and we've detailed the rationale for our decision vis-a-vis Andrett in prior statements," Maffei told Wall Street business analysts. "We are certainly not against the idea that any expansion is wrong. There is a methodology for expansion that requires approval of the FIA and the F1, and both groups have to find the criteria met.

"We're certainly open to new entrants making applications and potentially being approved if those requirements are met."

The years-long process began in 2021 with Michael Andretti losing out on an 11th-hour deal with Sauber to purchase a controlling interest in its F1 outfit that soon will be controlled outright by Audi. In February of the next year, Mario Andretti announced that his son had filed paperwork with F1 officials to inquire about joining the grid as an expansion franchise, first revealing to IndyStar that Andretti would plan to build its cars out of its now-under-construction sprawling headquarters in Fishers.

After a series of testy, public back-and-forths with Libery and F1 series officials, as well as many of the team owners -- most of whom have been vehemently against expansion to protect the financial solvency of the 10 current teams and their sky-rocketing valuations -- through much of 2022, the FIA in early 2023 announced it would open an 'expressions of interest' process where prospective new team owners could apply for clearance to join the F1 grid. After receiving the support of General Motors and its luxury racing brand Cadillac to run tandem in the project, Andretti would be the only team given the green light by the FIA in October of last year.

"Andretti Formula Racing LLC was the only entity which fulfills the selection criteria that was set in all material respects," FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said at the time, regarding the FIA's "robust" due diligence process. "I congratulate Michael Andretti and his team on a thorough submission.”

Andretti and GM's application was then passed on to Libery Media and FOM for further review, as any new entrants to the F1 grid have to be jointly agreed upon by both the sporting and commercial sides in order to gain full clearance. Four months later, F1 dressed down Andretti's application in a thorough denial, stating the entry was unlikely to be competitive; that its stakeholders likely didn't understand the scope and difficulty of the project; that it was unlikely to add value to the sport and its current 10 teams; and that the Andretti brand was more likely to gain from admission than vice versa.

"Our assessment process has established that the presence of an 11th team would not, on its own, provide value to the Championship," F1's wrote in a three-page decision letter sent to Andretti officials. "The most significant way in which a new entrant would bring value is by being competitive. We do not believe that the Applicant would be a competitive participant.

"While the Andretti name carries some recognition for F1 fans, our research indicates that F1 would bring value to the Andretti brand rather than the other way around. … We do not believe that the applicant has shown that it would add value to the Championship. We conclude that the Applicant's application to participate in the Championship should not be successful."

In a statement in response that same day in January, the team said in a statement that it "strongly disagreed" with F1's findings. "Andretti and Cadillac are two successful global motorsports organizations committed to placing a genuine American works team in F1, competing alongside the world's best," the pair said in the statement. "We are proud of the significant progress we have already made on developing a highly competitive car and power unit with an experienced team behind it, and our work continues at pace."

In April of this year, the team opened a new nearly 50,000-square-foot facility near the legendary Silverstone race track in the U.K. out of which its more than 100 F1 project-focused employees would work out of moving forward. According to Mario Andretti, Michael's famous father and the 1978 F1 champion, all the work of the last several years boils down to the next year or so. Despite F1 and Liberty saying they'd be willing to potentially reconsider Andretti Global's bid once Cadillac can produce its own power unit for the project in 2028, the elder Andretti told reporters in April at Long Beach that the team's F1 prospects were boom-or-bust for a 2026 entry point, so as not to be forced to pay hundreds of millions more in a steep entry fee that would be split among the 10 current teams to offset their losses as F1's marketing dollars would begin to be split 11 ways instead of 10.

“The point is, right now, the Concorde Agreement that’s in place, that’s the valid one. They want to come up with a different one after the end of 2025, but we started this process over two years ago, and we’re going under the current Concorde Agreement,” Andretti said. “We didn’t build, we didn’t do everything, we didn’t invest to be here in 2030.

“The objective was to be on the grid in 2024 when we started. Then it’s 2025, and now it’s 2026. But this has got to happen. We’ve invested knowing that we’re going by the book, and I don’t want to hear about the new one. Throw everything you want around, but that’s a different story. We’re going by what’s in place now.”

Less than two weeks later -- and just days ahead of a planned meeting with F1 officials at the Miami Grand Prix to further discuss the issues at hand -- the elder Andretti was on Capitol Hill with Rep. John James (R-Mich.) to meet with various members of Congress to discuss Liberty's purported anti-trust violations. That day, a bipartisan group of a dozen politicians sent a letter to Maffei expressing "concerns with apparent anti-competitive actions" related to Liberty's denial of Andretti during the potential expansion process. In asking for a quick response and answer to three pointed questions about its stonewalling of Andretti's bid, the signees also said that "participation of all Formula 1 teams -- including any American teams -- should be based on merit and not just limited to protecting the current lineup of race teams."

The initial letter, which went public May 1, was then followed by one penned by Jordan six days later that requested a trove of documents from F1 officials related to its decision to block Andretti's bid for the grid, poked holes in its argument against Andretti's admission and requested a "staff-level briefing" on the decision.

"Weak teams want to be protected from competition to the detriment of consumers and an additional team (that) would compete for prize money and sponsorships. If Formula One must hinder competition and harm consumers to protect failing competitors, then the entire Formula One model may be broken, and the entity cannot hide behind the necessity of a sports league to pursue anticompetitive conduct," Jordan wrote.

"Delaying Andretti Cadilla's entry into Formula One for even one year will harm American consumers to benefit failing Formula One teams."

On May 21, a bipartisan group of seven U.S. senators -- including both from Indiana -- published and sent a third related letter, this one sent to members of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, to share concerns that Liberty and F1 were "acting at the behest of its independent teams and other key stakeholders…to exclude the team formed by (Andretti Global's) partnership with General Motors from entering (F1)."

"It is possible that such a refusal to deal -- especially if orchestrated through a gropu boycott -- could violate U.S. antitrust laws," the letter read, going on to point out that F1 had run with 11 teams in 2016 and 12 in 2012 and that Andretti endeavored to be the only member on the grid with an American-made car, American-made components and an American driver. The letter also pushed back at F1's claims that Andretti wouldn't be competitive straight away, referring to Red Bull having won all but one race in 2024 and that half the grid went without a single win combined the previous four seasons.

Further, it noted the rise of American interest in the sport, adding that "clearly there is a financial incentive to adding an American team to F1's roster, and there is no reason Team Andretti-Cadillac should be blocked unless FOM is trying to insulate its current partners from competition."

"We have serious concerns that the rejection of Team Andretti-Cadillac was based on a desire to exclude a rival from the racetrack. marketing opportunities and prestige that competing in F1 can lend to a car manufacturer competing to sell cars across the globe," the letter closed. "That F1 stakeholders may have engaged in concerted action to exclude Team Andretti-Cadillac -- especially after it met all technical requirements to join F1 -- that merits investigation."

Andretti Global declined to comment on the news of the DOJ's investigation of Liberty Media.

This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: U.S. DOJ investigating Liberty Media for denying Andretti F1 bid

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