MonKeyArtAwards

Location. Location. Location.

Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale has an exhibition featuring the illustration and fine art of Drew Struzan and Bob Peak going on now thru May 26th.

 Drew & Bob – The Masters of Movie Art

January 24 - May 26, 10am to 5pm

Forest Lawn – Glendale – Museum

A Reader Submits: Go On, Squeeze My Head

Dear Edwina, 

Welcome back! And here's something to get you back in the swing of things:

Thank you for the greetings, comrade. And might we add:

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Fifty Shades Of Don Draper

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Another Heartfelt Expression Of 'Welcome Back, Edwina!'

Dear Edwina,

So the Republicans were right about long-term unemployment benefits: cut it off and they'll turn off the TV, lose the ratty bathrobe and go back to work.

Sincerely, Edward Trout III

Making Amends

As many of you may know, we have recently been released from Cleanliness Is Next™, the world's most despotic rehab facility, located in fabulous Norwalk, California. Since part of recovery is to make amends, we have chosen to amend  Edwina Trout’s Map of Purveyors of Fine Quality Aesthetically Pleasing Entertainment Advertising with the following revisions:

The Refinery’s smooth move to Ventura & Van Nuys Blvds in Sherman Oaks “…or, in the parlance of our City-side comrades, ‘just off Beverly Glen.’” as Adam Waldman says.

The addition of Toy Box - to whom we offered our congratulations on being added to our map along with our condolences for being located in Burbank.

Oh! And don’t miss that delightful little headstone marking Cimarron’s demise. (Insert appropriate emoticon here.)

Advertising In The Great Outdoors

Going through our mailbag, we came across this from a reader sent to us back in October:

Dear Edwina,

These have been appearing on the bus shelter at Pico and Motor for the last couple of weeks (right across from the Fox lot where it'll do the most damage) . I forgot to take a picture of the one where this person calls the people responsible for the ad a "bunch of slobs". I was trying to come up with something pithy to say but I'm part of Hollyweird, so I'm not capable of higher thought.

We aren’t certain, but this could be the work of Public Ad Campaign. We ran a similar-themed item a while back about NYC artist Jilly Ballistic.

We see how you high-strung art directors might get your tighty whities in a twist seeing an excellent example of key art like this being defaced; however, the bus shelters may be privately owned, but the poster is viewed from a public space. As Fran Lebowitz once said, “Your right to wear a green polyester suit ends where it meets my eyes."

In answer to the editorial comments slapped onto these works of art and commerce: Hollyweird is simply markeing to its most actively engaged viewership, which just happens to be in a state of arrested adolescence. The stupid, the tasteless, the violent and the offensive are a prized demographic and higher thought will only result in low ratings and flat opening weekends.

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The Check Is In The Mail

Greetings comrades! We are back following a months-long stint in rehab to treat our affluenza and an unfortunate addiction to huffing Bestine®.

As many of you know, there’s nothing like a court-ordered respite from entertainment advertising to see the true craptacularity of this business. Case in point: the age-old custom of screwing over the hired help. 

We would tell you which creative shop we hear is perpetrating the heinous crime of not paying their fearless freelancers, but that would NOT be OK. In fact, it would be the exact reverse.

So, with that in mind we are revising our Bottom Twenty and putting this in at Number One.