Faster, Marketer! Shill! Shill!
With today being the start of the first full, productive week of the new year, a little Rolodex-updating project was in order. (Yes, I still have a paper version.) Well, I couldn't have been more correct, as one of the first cards I came across was a hot pink little number showcasing the digits of one "Tura Satana." Don't know her? Don't worry, she's not some mover and shaker on the brand scene. Tura was one of the three buxom beauties who starred in Russ Meyer's 1965 exploito film Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill! I have no idea why I have her business card. (Did we meet? If so, why don't I remember this momentous occasion?!) And more to the point, I am clueless as to why she was filed away in a sea of marketers, consultants and agency types. I guess this cleaning stuff does have merit.
Welcome back, everyone. I will be back very soon with some real alt-marketing chatter. If you've got something cooking, drop me a line anytime at bebenkamp@brandweek.com
PS: Tura's Web site is www.turasatana.com if you wanna check her out.
Tura has indeed managed to weather the storm of bad business deals and cross-market promotions that usually happen to people who were most famous for a certain physicality or character in their youth.
One of the extra features on the GET SMART DVD season sets are all of the 1-800-call-collect commercials that Don Adams did in the 1990s where the company had bought Don's services and everything short of saying "Yes, that's right - this is Maxwell Smart shilling low phone long distance" was used to marry him to Agent 86 One Last Time . Poor Bob "Giligan" Denver was used a lot in similar commercial projects for boats, tours and accident insurance.
Posted by: Joe Kilmartin | January 11, 2008 at 09:29 PM