A Celebrity-Studded Bon Bon for Quiz Day

We have a quiz in Mass Comm 101 today, which means no media note. In its place, I direct you to the oddly fascinating web site japander.com. This web site was used as part of a medianote last fall. I used it to discuss the increasingly passe' practice of Hollywood stars picking up large paychecks for minimal work by doing television commercials in Japan. Apparently, Japanese advertising tastes are changing: fewer Hollywood stars are being called upon to do this work today than 10 or 15 years ago. The web site has digitized versions of these classic ads that appear to be beamed to us from a parallel universe. Take a look. It's good goofy fun.