The former world no. 1 tennis player stars in a pun-packed campaign in which the term ‘living up to your name’ takes on a very literal meaning. Also making an appearance are tennis stars Todd Woodbridge and Pat Rafter.
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After a gap of almost a decade, Dos Equis has brought back its ‘Most Interesting Man in the World’ campaign. Actor Jonathan Goldsmith reprises the role that became a sort of a cultural phenomenon. The voiceover is as witty as ever and, as before, is helmed by Will Lyman. And, yes, there’s also the iconic closing line (with some playful variations in the teaser ads).
-Teaser 1: Yogurt
-Teaser 2: Ship in a bottle
-Teaser 3: Socks
From the Philippines: the country’s flag carrier has a new 6 minute in-flight safety video that is inspired by the emotional narrative of local telenovelas.
Around four months ago, Heinz noted the remarkable similarity between the shape of fry boxes across the world and the ketchup brand’s keyhole logo. This week, once again, Heinz has drawn attention to fry boxes with an initiative that makes a compelling case for their redesign.
The hot sauce brand has collaborated with beauty care retailer Sephora to come up with a limited edition lip plumper. To quote from the Tabasco blog:
When the plumping power of Sephora Collection’s Outrageous Plump Volume Effect Gloss meets the fiery attitude of the iconic hot sauce brand TABASCO®, the result is a limited-edition launch that’s as bold, playful, and irresistible as the sauce itself. This unexpected partnership brings heat to the beauty world with a gloss designed to deliver shine, moisture, and visible volume.
The collaboration features Sephora’s Outrageous Plump Volume Effect Lip Gloss, infused with chili pepper extract, and formulated with hyaluronic acid to help moisturize lips, for a visibly plumper look. Behind its intense shine, the formula delivers a noticeable plumping effect on application, leaving lips smoother, fuller, and sculpted with a high-gloss finish that lasts.
Inspired by TABASCO® Brand’s legendary sauces, the collection is available in four shades with escalating levels of plumping intensity.
Jalapeño is a clear, green-tinted gloss that applies ultra-discreet for those who prefer a subtle tingling sensation.
Sriracha offers a warm, translucent brown tone that’s smooth and balanced with a juicy kick.
TABASCO® Red brings the heat with a bright, spicy red and glossy finish.
Extreme Heat turns things all the way up with a daring, clear black gloss, accented by plum highlights for the most fearless beauty lovers.
From Sweden: the organisers of Göteborg Film Festival 2026 are offering visitors a chance to earn tickets by passing a real lie detector test. To quote from the promotion page on the festival website:
What is the truth worth to you? With that question, we’re putting the value of honesty to the test. That’s why we’re introducing a new way to pay for your festival pass: with truth. As a visitor, you can book a “Truth Ticket” that you pay by telling the truth, while connected to a polygraph, during a live lie detector test, in front of an audience. If you complete the test you receive a Truth Ticket, if you fail you receive nothing.
Santa’s lead reindeer is told to take a back seat in this Christmas short.
To quote from a report out of Japan:
Japanese authorities applied an 1889 anti-dueling law to arrest a man over a fight that resulted in his opponent’s death in Tokyo’s red light and entertainment district, police said Friday.
The face-off took place in September on a street in the Kabukicho area of the capital after the suspect “and the dead man agreed to fight each other,” police spokesman Mitsuhiro Hirota said.
Tokyo police on Wednesday arrested Fuzuki Asari, 26, on suspicion of having “conspired with someone else” to have a duel and causing injury resulting in the death of his 30-year-old adversary, Hirota said.
The 1889 law stipulates that “anyone who has engaged in a duel shall be punished by imprisonment for no less than two years and no more than five years.”
An excerpt from his 1956 essay ‘On a Book Entitled Lolita’:
My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody’s concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses—the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions—which the native illusionist, fractails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.
It’s the first in a series of spots for Miller Lite.
The Director’s Cut of Swisscom’s spot from last year, featuring a Hollywood-style portrayal of how a cyber threat might be warded off.
To quote from a report out of New Jersey:
Donkey’s Place in Camden is well-known for its iconic cheesesteaks, so good Anthony Bourdain once called them the best in Philadelphia despite their location across the Delaware River.
The South Jersey bar and restaurant is perhaps less renowned for its antique walrus penis bone.
Owner Rob Lucas Jr. told NJ Advance Media that Donkey’s Place has kept a walrus baculum — a bone in the penis of many mammals — behind the bar for as long as he can remember. The popular conversation piece sits alongside a megalodon tooth and several other artifacts.
Diners often come in for cheesesteaks and drinks and ask about what the peculiar bone is. Bartenders let them take a look and a guess before revealing the answer.
But last week, a customer stole the phallic favorite, Lucas said.
“The bartender handed it out for them to figure out what it was. She went to the back to do something else and then one dude stole it,” Lucas said. “We got his picture, but I don’t think he’s from around town.”
Meat & Livestock Australia’s latest annual ‘Summer Lamb Campaign’ playfully challenges the country’s ouster from a top ten ranking on the World Happiness Index.
From Denmark: a touching spot to mark the end of postal deliveries by the state-run service, PostNord.
A short selection from Barry Petchesky’s latest annual listing, compiled from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database of emergency room visits.
Bit by a spider on the tip of his penis.
Accidentally poked his penis while cleaning penis with a toothpick.
Put his penis in one of the holes in a shopping cart. Lacerations to penis.
Placed a plastic tea bottle neck around his penis around 10pm this evening at the instruction of his girlfriend and is not able to remove.
Was trying on a halloween costume and there was a string irritating his penis in the costume so he took scissors to cut the string and accidentally cut his penis.
Had eaten mushrooms, began to experience the hallucinations. He removed clothes, rolled around in vegetation, walked up to nature center nude. He broke through the glass with his forehead. After he exited the nature center he crushed his penis in between “a rock and a hard place.”
From Bosley Crowther’s 1957 review of …And God Created Woman in The New York Times:
This round and voluptuous little French miss is put on spectacular display and is rather brazenly ogled from every allowable point of view. She is looked at in slacks and sweaters, in shorts and Bikini bathing suits. She wears a bedsheet on two or three occasions, and, once, she shows behind a thin screen in the nude. What's more, she moves herself in a fashion that fully accentuates her charms. She is undeniably a creation of superlative craftsmanship.
The location is the quaint town of St. Tropez, with its mellow, pastel-colored houses against the blue of the Mediterranean Sea. And the outstanding feature of the scenery is invariably Mlle. Bardot. She is a thing of mobile contours—a phenomenon you have to see to believe.
From Peter Bradshaw’s tribute, published yesterday, in The Guardian:
In the 1950s, before the sexual revolution, before the New Wave, before feminism, there was Bardot: she was sex, she was youth, and, more to the point, Bardot was modernity. She was the unacknowledged zeitgeist force that stirred cinema’s young lions such as François Truffaut against the old order. Bardot was the country’s most sensational cultural export; she was in effect the French Beatles, a liberated, deliciously shameless screen siren who made male American moviegoers gulp and goggle with desire in that puritan land where sex on screen was still not commonplace, and in which sexiness had to be presented in a demure solvent of comedy. Bardot may not have had the comedy skills of a Marilyn Monroe, but she had ingenuous charm and real charisma, a gentleness and sweetness, largely overlooked in the avalanche of prurience and sexist condescension.
Mercedes has announced the arrival of its AMG GT 4-Door Coupe with a new spot that features F1 racing driver George Russell doing valet duty for Brad Pitt at an iconic Vegas location while he endures a question about his moustache.
From Finland: leading pet care retailer Musti Group has launched an initiative that uses digital signage to help locate lost pets. The way it would work is that when a pet goes missing, any alert posted on Karkurit.fi — Finland’s most widely used website for reporting lost pets — will automatically appear on outdoor advertising screens in the area where the pet was last seen.
From New Zealand: a couple of installations by artist Cameron Hunt at the Little Street Art Festival in Christchurch that look deceptively similar to city council signs, except that they carry a playfully absurd message.
