Who will pass first, Alex Trebek or Beth Chapman?
Alex has an aggressive cancer, but Beth has a slower cancer for a longer time.
Pretty even... I guess Alex is gone before Beth.
annoying commercial he did for Colonial Life.
Yes, I remember Michael Landon in those early 1990s infomercials for "Where There's a Will, There's an 'A.'" IIRC, Landon granted permission to keep them airing after he took that final "Highway to Heaven" and that they were introduced with a disclaimer to the effect that he had passed.
Also, didn't those classical music send-away TV ads featuring British character actor John Williams (villain, Dial M for Murder; Sebastian Cabot's interim replacement, TV's Family Affair) continue to air years after his coda?
introduced with a disclaimer to the effect that he had passed.
I also remember Yul Brenner did those anti-smoking ads that aired for a while after he died of lung cancer.
that aired for a while after he died of lung cancer.
same tense because in context he was speaking hypothetically.
No real information here, just a PR release. I don’t know why he hast to continue working or why Beth Chapman has to climb a mountain but these are the times that it’s best to get down on your knees.
I was talking about this particular ad with somebody just the other day, we were discussion commercials, and the topic changed to which non-PSA television commercial was pretty continuously run for the longest amount of time. They'll sometimes replay old commercials, but I said I thought it was this one, which must have run for about 20 years quite often on cable networks. I know very little about classical music but I've heard that commerical so often over the years I know every snippet of music in the ad by heart and the order they play in. I know they got an awful lot of airplay out of that one commercial.
song "Stranger in Paradise" was derived from the "Polovtsian Dance, No. 2"
out of that one commercial.
The first “dead” commercial I remember is A-1 Steak Sauce and the late Boris Karloff.
I agree, those anti-smoking ads were a PSA to serve as a deterrent against smoking, and it wasn't like Yul Brenner's family was making money from their airing. The Michael Landon ads (there were television ads and also a 30-minute infomercial), aired for more than a year after his death before IIRC John Ritter took over the ads.
The Landon family, I am sure, made money off of this product, which aired after his death. My guess is that Landon made a back end deal shortly before he found out he was sick where he produced this video for this product and took his cut of the sales and appeared in it for free.
I even remember some sort of narrated disclaimer they ran saying something like "Michael Landon thought so much of this product that he wanted these ads run after his death in order to help people", or something like that. I know I sat thru a portion of the infomercial for this product at some point, because I remember Michael Landon admitting he had some sort of learning disorder in his youth (dyslexia?) and saying this product would have helped him, and it would also help others.
I am guessing if you bought the videos, Landon must have appeared in them, and I don't know if they reshot them with John Ritter starring in them in place of Michael Landon when he took over the commercials, but the commercials featuring John Ritter weren't on television very long.
a year after his death before IIRC John Ritter took over the ads.
Ritter was doing the ads before Landon.
there was a fee against a cut of the take.
product would have helped him, and it would also help others.
of classroom talks he gave on the subject.
Here's a 1991 interview with Prof. Olney from the Phoenix New Times.
Landon replaced Ritter after about a year.
commercials continuing after the celebrities' death.
To quote Paul Harvey, and now we know the rest of the story.
I don't think ads featuring celebrities dying from smoking are comparable to Michael Landon's posthumous shilling for that tutoring thing.
I’d give Waivers to Posthumous PSAs if they intend to warn of deadly danger.
Michael Landon's posthumous shilling for that tutoring thing.
continued even after Marlon's death.
you can see above. No attribution, either.
I just yesterday learned that the Three Suns' "Midnight Time"
breathing at the time, yet the current BMI entry for "Midnight Time"
the Rachmaninoff estate was by the time of "All by Myself".
based on the simple question "What would Mamie Eisenhower do?"
Posthumous commercials creep me out.
Imagine how the dead guys feel.
Mutual of Omaha trooped dying Marlon out to pitch cancer insurance.
Can it get any Fowler?