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Part homage, part aesthetic piggy-backing, “in the style of” ads are pretty popular in the era of viral copy-cat trends. Two recent such commercials hit it big over the last few days, generating buzz by borrowing a well-known style and applying it to something new, funny and (often) inappropriate. To illustrate how multinational corporations and [...]

In a recent vlog post, P. Diddy presented the new mini-movie promotion for his latest fragrance as a pseudo-audition to be the first black James Bond.
Now that we have a black president, the argument goes, why not replace another ubiquitous, powerful, suited white guy with a black man? Daniel Craig agrees, as does Rama of [...]