His old life was gone -- celebrity pitchman, sportscaster, actor, all gone.
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And who, after all, is a better pitchman than he is?
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Lynch was already a household name as Fidelity's long-time pitchman.
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For starters, there were ample suspicions about the pitchman, Mr. Zwane.
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Instead, Trump has become a pitchman for Paul Ryan and his agenda.
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The goal was to sell trucks, with Dr. King's voice as pitchman.
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The ad is a take on pitchman-style commercials like those for OxiClean.
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The president, normally the main pitchman for any reform, kept a low profile.
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" But he shot to fame as the rough-and-tumble pitchman for "Trivago.
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" In 2002 Test Man won an award from Entertainment Weekly for "Most Mysterious Pitchman.
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The cute cold-weather bird is a pitchman for everything from vodka to hockey.
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He oversold, and the customers — the public — tired of the pitch, and the pitchman.
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Mr. West acts as his own pitchman for the brand, which can be complicated.
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Small wonder that corporate America loved him, turning him into a product pitchman supreme.
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The former pitchman has been attacked while incarcerated, and apparently has gained weight in prison.
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"If you're an open-minded person, come here and close yourself in," says "SNL's" pitchman.
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He also plays with some flair, which is key to being an effective sneaker pitchman.
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Along with several other professional athletes, he's also a pitchman for a company called AdvoCare.
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In a statement LaPierre compared North to former NRA president, actor, and pitchman Charlton Heston.
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We've learned the former Subway pitchman was assigned cafeteria duties at Federal Correctional Institution Englewood.
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Trump, of course, is both his best pitchman as well as his own worst enemy.
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After all, in 2012, commentators called Clinton the greatest pitchman for President Barack Obama's reelection.
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Scherer, with his slower drawl, says he never got thought he'd become a pitchman for hire.
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It's an all-encompassing sort of ambition, and Mr. Neumann is the brash and idealistic pitchman.
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In another arc we saw an engineer's personal journey from project pitchman to plant whistle-blower.
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Timofey Mozgov, the NBA's greatest pitchman, landed with the Lakers on a four-year, $64 million deal.
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He has also at times played pitchman, running a website in which he offers up his services.
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He is a fantastic pitchman with his ease in front of the camera and assertive speaking style.
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"He was working it hard there," Mr. Snitzer said with a sympathetic chuckle for a fellow pitchman.
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In this same period he was all over television in another capacity, as pitchman for Eveready batteries.
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After receiving presidential clemency, Edward Gallagher has left the SEALs to become a pitchman and conservative activist.
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He had become a regular in the press as an affable pitchman for his lineup of quirky inventions.
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Those homes were promoted heavily by the power industry and by Ronald Reagan, a pitchman for General Electric.
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Trump, a former beauty pageant owner, reality television star and product pitchman, has always been concerned with appearances.
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Even his press secretary, Sean Spicer, has become a pitchman: "It's an absolutely stunning hotel," he said recently.
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Martin felt Kaepernick, a Nike pitchman, was disrespecting the military by taking a knee during the National Anthem.
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At WBBM he helped persuade skeptical news executives to gamble on an avid advertising pitchman named Mike Wallace.
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Simpson was a Hollywood star and pitchman who was seen by many as someone who had transcended being black.
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North fueled that culture by working as a pitchman for a shoot-em-up video game, but never mind.
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In Ukraine and other Eastern European countries, the former Texas governor often played the role of U.S. energy pitchman.
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Beverley, a 6-foot-1 guard, was at his dynamic best in the series opener, the best pitchman possible.
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That's the best case for this amazing, brilliant Terrapower design [this was said with the knowing smile of a pitchman].
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Trump's success affirmed for him that his methods, borrowed from his life's work as a promoter and pitchman -- were right.
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Rob Lowe, the former pitchman for DirecTV, has a message for the company that he used to promote: You suck!
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The corporate oligarchs, it seemed, did not want footage leaking of their star pitchman getting owned by a college kid.
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Subaru turned the Legacy wagon into the Outback, making the Australian actor-pitchman Paul Hogan eternally grateful in the process.
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In "Pitchman," Sakoguchi pokes fun at the sport's commercial interests with a rendering of Jim Palmer pimping for Jockey underwear.
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He has been the deal's pre-eminent pitchman, lobbying legislators and promoting the merger to his 6.2 million Twitter followers.
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Like the Tide ad pitchman interrupting what looked like commercials for other products, President Trump seems to be always there.
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"Watching TV is more complicated than ever," a pitchman on a broadcast ad for TV Guide announced in the 1980s.
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Nike has released its first ad with Colin Kaepernick as the pitchman for the company's "Just Do It" 30th anniversary campaign.
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A 2014 Motherboard piece celebrated Goldblum's unwitting position as the tech pitchman in our lives; has there been a lovelier salesman?
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" He later became something of an unofficial pitchman for Viagra, which he endorsed in his 2004 manifesto, "Hef's Little Black Book.
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They don't feel conversational because Mr. Trump, pitchman and reality showman, doesn't have a one-on-one tone in his repertoire.
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Indeed, the first rule of salesmanship is that the pitchman must believe in his product with every fiber of his being.
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Comparing Ruth's pitchman prowess to that of O. J. Simpson, she has Simpson the running back shilling for Avis, not Hertz.
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David Spade could be the best pitchman ever for Range Rover, because it could have saved his life ... and he knows it.
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With Jonathan Goldsmith's "Most Interesting Man" character presumably languishing on Mars, Dos Equis has found a new pitchman to fill his shoes.
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But Chaffetz will have time to perfect his pitchman act, because the contents of the bill are already up in the air.
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" A Hertz executive in the documentary said the company decided to use the former NFL running back as a pitchman because "O.
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Some country fans think (A) Wranglers are exclusively country so he shouldn't be a pitchman, and (B) he's not country at all.
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Bloch speaks with a soft lisp, and in a tone that betrays no urgency to monetize, but he is a skilled pitchman.
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Mr. Parnas, now 47, was a perennial pitchman who exuded sincerity, an aspiring entrepreneur with a history of debts and aborted businesses.
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There's no doubt O.J. begat Michael Jordan who begat Tiger Woods in terms of the non-political celebrity black athlete as pitchman.
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Tata appeared to place big hopes on the Zica, even enlisting one of the world's biggest soccer stars, Lionel Messi, as a pitchman.
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The ex-QB will be on the dais during the "Comedy Central Roast" of Peyton's fellow DirecTV pitchman -- which airs on Labor Day.
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In 1980, the challenge had been to convince voters that their candidate was more than a former actor and pitchman for General Electric.
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Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiro is a founding partner in both -– and in the case of LegalZoom, the TV pitchman for the website.
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He is a popular pitchman in the Chicago area with a restaurant and his own line of products ranging from salsa to wine.
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For decades, H & R Block's TV commercials became tax-season fixtures, often featuring the soberly attired, gray-haired Henry Bloch as chief pitchman.
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At lunch that day, the prison is serving chocolate pudding, a product Mr. Cosby was associated with as a pitchman for Jell-O.
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In the late 1980s he acted as pitchman in an infomercial for the Helsinki Formula, which claimed to be a cure for baldness.
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His renowned skills as a pitchman were on full display, especially with his repeated use of special guests — ordinary folks with extraordinary stories.
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He spent nine years working for Verizon on the campaign, during which he was voted Most Mysterious Pitchman by Entertainment Weekly in 2002.
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The situation hasn't helped Manning's reputation as the squeaky-clean guy next door, and it didn't boost his appeal as a product pitchman, either.
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The burger giant is touting its Frork, basically a fork with French fries as the prongs, in a mock infomercial featuring pitchman Anthony Sullivan.
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The first and best example was ex-sitcom star and digital camera pitchman Ashton Kutcher, who was the fastest to reach 1 million followers.
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Duc is still begging for his dad's approval, proclaiming his celibacy and courting potential clients with all the disingenuous bravado of an infomercial pitchman.
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An emphatic wave becomes a goofy "wax-on, wax-off" movement, he said, the simple hand motion reducing a candidate to an essence: pitchman.
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He went on to other shows and became a pitchman for Jell-O pudding while also stirring controversy with critical comments about black youth culture.
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The one thing that comes through loud and clear throughout hinges on Ali's ebullient personality outside the ring, and intuitive talent as a marketing pitchman.
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It called Cuspert "a willing pitchman for [ISIS] atrocities," and said he appears to be a recruiter with a special emphasis on recruiting German speakers.
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They've seen him on the public stage for decades, tracking his every move as a businessman, author, reality TV host, pitchman and all-around celebrity.
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But he has not proved to be the best pitchman, according to a dozen attendees at a January meeting with potential donors at HUD headquarters.
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At this moment, F.B.I. agents in Indianapolis were also immersed in the child-exploitation case of Jared Fogle, the longtime pitchman on Subway television ads.
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His success with the Lakers — Bryant won the first of three straight titles in just his fourth season — made him a prolific pitchman as well.
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Papa John's has distanced itself from its disgraced founder and former pitchman with an advertising campaign and an internal audit on diversity and inclusion practices.
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He admitted to amplifying some gestures and distilling others, always attempting to reduce Trump to the essence of who he thinks he really is — a pitchman.
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One of the alleged underage victims of disgraced former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle has filed a motion to drop her civil suit against him, PEOPLE confirms.
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WASHINGTON — Few lobbyists have walked into the kind of political inferno that greeted Stephen J. Ubl when he became the top pitchman for the pharmaceutical industry.
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If its teaser campaign is any indication, even Taco bell pitchman James Harden of the NBA doesn't know what the product or the ad will be.
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He is currently a pitchman for Nutrisystem and also co-owns the Passing Time Winery in Washington state with his former back-up quarterback Damon Huard.
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There were no scratchy background noises or dips in service and I didn't have to feel like the Verizon pitchman at any point during the call.
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"I don't always wake up at 5 AM on a Saturday," reads the blocky white macro text embossed above the head of the Dos Equis pitchman.
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In addition to State Farm, which Forbes labeled one of the richest endorsement deals in the NFL, Rodgers is a pitchman for Adidas, IZOD and Sharpie.
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A lifelong pitchman, Donald Trump is astoundingly adept at capturing attention by playing with emotion to sell himself as the answer to the problem at hand.
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One of the descriptions in particular — "a cynical carnival pitchman" — is almost creepily similar to the rhetoric the Democrats used against Trump back in November 2015.
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Mr. Gooding captures the unsettling enigma of Mr. Simpson, the running back, actor and Hertz pitchman, grown strange in the hothouse of celebrity, lashing out — in grief?
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While Hall loved engineering, he wasn't much of a businessman; his history as a polymath would rival Elon Musk, but he lacked Musk's skills as a pitchman.
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"It is high-profile and competitive," said O'Neal, who's already invested in the NBA's Kings, owns multiple fast-food franchises and is a highly visible product pitchman.
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Their pitchman was Bruce Willis, in his Moonlighting days, pre- Die Hard, back when he still had most of his hair and was basically a testosterone popsicle.
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Mr. Trudeau has revealed himself to be not a climate crusader, but a pipeline pitchman who tells the world one thing while doing the opposite at home.
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Among other pursuits, he became a football analyst for Fox Sports and a pitchman for a company that produces a line of cannabidiol-infused topical pain relievers.
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I knew about O.J at USC and what he represented at the time, and how he became the first black corporate pitchman as far as athletes go.
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Shatner has made environmentalism one of his pet causes for quite some time and he's been working as the pitchman for Solar Alliance, a Canadian solar power company.
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Prior to the killings, Simpson, now 70, was an American hero, his former prowess on the football field matched by his charm as a celebrity pitchman and actor.
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It's the subject of great consternation among baseball watchers, the reluctant pitchman and anonymous star lost in any crowd versus the player with no equal on the field.
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If he has a known public image, it may come from his success as a television product pitchman — certainly not from demonstrative celebrations after touchdowns or first downs.
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As the Broncos sealed their victory Sunday night, Papa John ran over to his most famous pitchman with a special delivery ... a kiss on the QB's cheek. Saucy!
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When he discusses his personal finances—specifically the fact that he became a millionaire three years ago—you could almost mistake Bernie Sanders for a pitchman for capitalism.
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His success as a corporate pitchman far outlived his competitive golf career and has provided a lesson plan in branding to succeeding generations of athletes like Michael Jordan.
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On Wednesday, Rory McIlroy, dressed head to toe in Nike apparel, sat in front of reporters and acknowledged the debt he owed to Palmer, the sport's pioneering pitchman.
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Until now, the most famous Viagra pitchman — even if his late-1990s ad has largely been scrubbed from the internet — was Senator Bob Dole, then in his 70s.
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Two-time Republican presidential candidate and one-time Viagra pitchman Bob Dole suddenly surfaced as an unexpected player in President-elect Trump's abnormal foreign policy forays of late.
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The Eagles quarterback then, Donovan McNabb, was on a run of five straight Pro Bowl seasons and was also a popular Chunky Soup pitchman alongside his mother, Wilma.
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MELISSA LEE: You are you the pitchman for a lot of different products, but the key theme is that you actually like every single thing that you enforce.
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When hostility to amnesty developed into the right's signature obsession, the bill's chief Republican pitchman, Senator Marco Rubio, turned his eyes to the presidency and abandoned his own undertaking.
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Image: DellBen Curtis, aka the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy, served as Dell Computer's pitchman for years and remains one of the most iconic symbols of the company.
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Op-Ed Contributor It is easy to forget how beloved a celebrity O. J. Simpson was in his time — Heisman Trophy winner, N.F.L. superstar, Hollywood actor and pitchman supreme.
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The company and its former chairman patched things up a decade later, with Iacocca again serving as a Chrysler pitchman, in one TV commercial appearing with rapper Snoop Dogg.
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It called Cuspert "a willing pitchman for [ISIS] atrocities" and said he appears to be a recruiter with a special emphasis on recruiting German speakers to the terrorist organization.
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" The power of a superstar to drive public interest is well understood by MLL's founder, Jake Steinfeld, the eponymous pitchman and self-made fitness guru behind "Body By Jake.
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Goldblum did serve as an Apple pitchman for a time, appearing in spots for the iMac and bringing his signature zany enthusiasm to sell us on programs like iMovie.
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The celebrity pitchman, who became famous for starring in OxiClean commercials with late friend Billy Mays, recently opened a hemp farm in the vast green fields of Plainfield, Vermont.
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Besides Michael Jordan — well, and Chuck Taylor — Bryant was the only athlete and brand pitchman whose sneakers continued to be worn by NBA and college players after his retirement.
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But he says that he doesn't see himself becoming the next Billy Mays—for one thing, he knew the late Oxy-Clean pitchman, and Billy was one of a kind.
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Snoop Dogg can make even the most mundane tasks awesome ... so Burger King knew he was the perfect pitchman to explain their hot dogs in a new employee training video.
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Harper said being a recruiter or pitchman alongside Phillies owner John Middleton has been his intention since negotiations on a long-term deal began with a meeting in Las Vegas.
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Wright, the most devoted and vocal pitchman for the conference, in either iteration, said what was exciting about the old league were the frequent intraconference matchups between highly ranked opponents.
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But the judge said that claim did not belong in his court, even if Subway viewed McLaughlin as a means to "ground their valuable pitchman" and depict his "wholesome" life.
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And he has been the administration's energy pitchman overseas, touting U.S. exports of oil, natural gas and coal as well as a controversial nuclear power technology arrangement with Saudi Arabia.
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The big picture: Curry is an investor, advisor and pitchman for the Palm, a 3-inch Android smartphone sold by Verizon as a complement to the bigger devices most people carry.
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The concierge service will most likely appeal to older users, and as such, the company has enlisted the one-time Dos Equis pitchman "Most Interesting Man in the World," Jonathan Goldsmith.
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On Wednesday, Astral Tequila unveiled new advertisements that will feature Goldsmith—who starred as the pitchman for Dos Equis beer for about a decade—instead advocating adult beverage drinkers enjoy tequila.
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In February 2015, the State Department designated Mr. Cuspert a global terrorist and a member of the Islamic State group, saying that he was a "willing pitchman" for the militants' atrocities.
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Fred Schwartz, the fur dealer who redefined luxury by marketing affordable pelage as the television pitchman Fred the Furrier, died on Sunday at his home in Great Neck, on Long Island.
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BOSTON, Feb 2596.20 (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments plans to unveil a new pitchman on Sunday in television commercials that feature Will Danoff, the unassuming portfolio manager of its behemoth $260 billion Contrafund.
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Still, it is a bit surprising to see him pop up as a pitchman for drinks that require cutting and pasting verbiage from section 101.93 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
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In general, companies were more worried about the costs of taking a more liberal stand on such issues, a point basketball legend and Nike pitchman Michael Jordan made succinctly in 1990.
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And he's hoping to convince us the only way a professional debtor and television pitchman knows how -- by staging a reality show in which America's biggest businesses are the unwilling supporting cast.
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Lines like Vuitton and Christian Dior have become mainstays in the pop culture lexicon among young consumers, including prominent influencers like Kylie Jenner, Cardi B, and 2017 Dior pitchman A$AP Rocky.
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His death prompted the family to move to Birmingham to be closer to Bart Jr. In Birmingham, Starr owned car dealerships, built hospitals and was a pitchman for Ford and other companies.
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Erstwhile Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is said to be recovering from a brutal prison yard beating that's left the admitted sex offender with facial bruising, a bloodied nose, and neck abrasions, PEOPLE learns.
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He was Denis Cuspert, a German rapper turned ISIS pitchman, whose growing influence as an online recruiter for violent jihadists had put him on the radar of counter-terrorism authorities on two continents.
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The ex-wife of disgraced Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is suing the sandwich franchise because she claims the company knew he was a pedophile and failed to act on it, CNN Money reports.
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The following morning, Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah went on TV to play pitchman, and ended up dominating headlines by telling poor people they have to choose between a smartphone and health insurance.
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O'Neal, a popular product pitchman who was one of the National Basketball Association's best players in his prime, will invest in nine of the company's restaurants in the Atlanta area, where he lives.
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The pitchman: Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of the recycling company TerraCycle, headed to Davos two years ago to meet with the leaders of packaged goods companies and push his big idea.
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Mr. Bezos has always been happy to play the role of Amazon's chief pitchman, especially when he perceives some benefit to Amazon customers from doing so, people who have worked with him said.
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Other top-three candidates are swingman Josh Jackson of Kansas, the point guard and noted sneaker pitchman Lonzo Ball of U.C.L.A., forward Jayson Tatum of Duke and point guard De'Aaron Fox of Kentucky.
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The former presidential candidate, who has quickly morphed into an enthusiastic pitchman for Elizabeth Warren, should have been a walking reminder of what happens to candidates who go for the jugular in debates.
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Perry, a frequent traveler to Eastern Europe as pitchman for U.S. energy exports, was also a subject in the subpoena that House Democrats served to Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier this week.
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Going forward, Baidu might want to take a note from Intel and find a pitchman like LeBron James so it can leave the dated, awkward gender dynamics in the past with manually operated vehicles.
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Steve Jobs, the late Apple founder, was great at this — the pitchman who could explain deeply why a new device was special; the specific engineering or design trick that made it work like magic.
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Along with the two spots featuring "Legendary Man," there are two faux-infomercials led by a balding, mustachioed pitchman who looks like he just stepped off of a used car lot in the '70s.
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The repeal of Obamacare appears to have hit some snags and the GOP brought out Trump earlier Tuesday to serve as pitchman to House Republicans who may have been wavering ahead of Thursday's vote.
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Disgraced Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is said to be recovering from a brutal prison yard beating that's left the admitted sex offender with facial bruising, a bloodied nose and neck abrasions, PEOPLE has learned.
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A ubiquitous pitchman for more than a half-century, he hawked nearly 50 products and services, from Johnston & Murphy shoes to Ketel One vodka, transforming the celebrity endorsement from a novelty to an industry.
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Trump, playing the role of a pitchman, used his trip to Scotland as an infomercial to help his financially ailing Trump Turnberry golf course, which has lost millions since Trump bought it in 2014.
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Alan Alda is a very fictional, de-WASPed version of literary titan and one-time Intellivision pitchman George Plimpton, the guy who gave the author of Maniac Magee key contacts in the publishing industry.
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The pizza chain has spent the past week distancing itself from John Schnatter, its founder and pitchman, after it was reported that he had used a racial slur in a comment about black people.
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Benioff has developed a routine as a pitchman for a new era of capitalism, with a generation of civic-minded leaders who eat up his big-hearted vision for government and business working together.
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After one-time action movie star Steven Seagal was blacklisted from Ukraine and became a devout Buddhist but also pitchman for Russian arms manufacturers, he's now found his next venture: shilling for a cryptocurrency.
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Mr. Carroll was the high-energy, high-volume pitchman in the commercials for Crazy Eddie, the Brooklyn-based chain of electronics stores that flourished in the days when videocassette recorders and answering machines were innovations.
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Kia isn't exactly rushing to the defense of their superstar pitchman Blake Griffin -- with the car company refusing to say if they'll stand by the NBA star in the wake of his fistfight in Toronto.
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Dos Equis is officially ending Jonathan Goldsmith's decade-long tenure as its beloved pitchman with a farewell commercial in which the debonair man of mystery blasts off on a one-way trip to the Red Planet.
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Like some demented version of a look-on-the-bright-side pitchman, the President has insisted we see the world from his point of view, where the landscape is full of accomplishments and devoid of problems.
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It's a safe bet that few in the audience could name the women correctly, but thanks to Trump's pitchman methods, the women became so scary to some of his supporters that they shouted for their expulsion.
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MEANWHILE, AT&T AND VERIZON HAVE MONEY FOR MARKETING WHICH WE SEE THESE COMMERCIALS OUT NOW WITH JAMIE FOXX COUNTERING SOME OF YOUR MARKETING WHERE YOU TOOK VERIZON'S OLD PITCHMAN AND HAD HIM COMING OUT FOR SPRINT.
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Shaq's career as a pitchman mostly involves picking up the scraps left over from a Michael Jordan or a LeBron James, and cashing in when the getting's good, with little regard to the product's quality or popularity.
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But the 57-year-old former Papa John's pitchman has refused to let his company completely move on from his tenure, repeatedly questioning its leaders' strategy and direction in public statements, news releases and through the press.
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James' efforts as a pitchman came under fire recently when he said it would be "amazing" and "incredible" if the Lakers could acquire the five-time All-Star Davis, who is under contract with the Pelicans through 2020.
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Mozgov, who began his career with a 34-game Knicks cameo, before moving on to the Nuggets and the Cavaliers, was a fairly productive pitchman in his time in Cleveland, including an awkward ad for a local taproom.
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But here is the point: That is a résumé befitting a superstar shoe-company pitchman, meaning James — not so much a player like Iguodala, who averaged 22015 points a game this season, with 239.8 rebounds and 225 assists.
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He is not a simple man — an athlete who has said that he loathes the spotlight, even as he continues to moonlight as an actor in films and as a well-compensated pitchman for sneakers and soft drinks.
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Beginning and ending each episode with a worldly-wise homily — "When you're in your 20s, you feel like you're invincible" — he comes across less as a character than a pitchman in an ad campaign to sell insurance to millennials.
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It was all the more startling coming from a man once beloved as the mild Dr. Cliff Huxtable on his hit NBC sitcom, the Jell-O pudding pitchman and the whimsical creator and voice of the character Fat Albert.
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Then Super Bowl 22011 comes to town, and every celebrity pitchman this side of the Pro Football Hall of Fame is available for an interview — just please make sure to mention their product of choice in your copy, OK?
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By all accounts as skilled a salesman in person as he was en masse, he was one of the last living links between the "Step right up!" pitchman of the early 21993th century and his expansive electronic-age heir.
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Yes, it's time for more "Narcos," with Wagner Moura again portraying Pablo Escobar as the doughiest, least expressive kingpin you'll ever meet — he's the visual opposite of the old Dos Equis pitchman, and he's peddling something far more potent.
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James Karen, an actor with some 21941 television and film credits and one particularly memorable job as a supermarket pitchman that led many to call him simply the Pathmark Man, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles.
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Athletic crossover starts weren't totally unheard of in the early 1990s—former Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner had done very well in his second life as a pitchman and motivational speaker—but they were more uncommon than they are today.
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The family had a more winning public face in Dick DeVos, who combined the practiced empathy of a pitchman with the entitlement of an heir, spending over $240 million on an unsuccessful run for governor of Michigan in 22012.
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Phelps's success as a performer and a pitchman made it possible for a 7-year-old Murphy to express his desire to become a professional swimmer — a dream he fulfilled after a standout career at the University of California.
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That is essentially what H&R Block did in signing Mr. Hamm, the "Mad Men" star, who has had voice-over roles in ads for Mercedes-Benz and American Airlines but had yet to appear onscreen as a pitchman.
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Flav was out in Bev Hills with TV pitchman Ron Popeil -- when he told us all about his 15-year-old prodigy Nico Ali Walsh ... a rising star in the sport (check out video below, he's in white trunks).
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The party will likely need to win in those areas to defeat Trump in 2020, and Biden is seen as a strong pitchman to the white working class on issues such as health care, labor rights, Social Security and Medicare.
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Simpson was acquitted of the murders two decades ago during the so-called "trial of the century," though his reputation - built atop a Hall of Fame football career as well as years as a popular pitchman and actor - suffered permanent damage.
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Sandwich giant Subway, which boasts almost 30,000 locations across the country, has been facing dwindling sales for the last couple of years, long before the company had to face a very serious image crisis involving their longtime pitchman Jared Fogle.
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Why it matters: The hard-charging Iacocca was the United States' most famous CEO and corporate pitchman in the 1980s, fiercely competitive and a symbol of the American auto industry's triumphs and challenges, Automotive News writes in a comprehensive obituary.
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Jared Fogle has filed a federal complaint against the parents of an alleged victim who sued the disgraced former Subway pitchman after he allegedly received secret recordings of her changing her clothes and bathing, according to court papers obtained by PEOPLE.
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Babashoff arrived at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 with a chance to match the performance in 1972 of Mark Spitz, whose seven golds sealed his status as an American icon and propelled him into a career as a product pitchman.
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Manning, who became the face of the NFL as a glamour quarterback and ubiquitous TV pitchman, has been hailed for his meticulous preparation and ability to find holes in opposing defenses as he surveys them at the line of scrimmage.
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She said she asked to be hired as his campaign makeup artist, to have Trump consider investing in her new male cosmetics line and to ask Trump to be the pitchman for her "Made Man" trademarked line of male beauty products.
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It's one of the items that reflect Mr. DiSpirito's recent obsession with nutrient-dense dietary supplements, although the way it keeps coming up in the servers' patter makes you wonder if Mr. DiSpirito spent too much time as a QVC pitchman.
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The company did it by first airing an ad with David Harbour of "Stranger Things" fame: Then, it broke into what looked like ads for other products with the same pitchman informing everyone that they too were actually Tide ads.
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The 'Breakfast Club' co-host was out in NYC when we asked what he thought about the ex-Subway pitchman getting his ass kicked by a fellow inmate -- a 60-year-old who was pissed about all the child molesters in the prison.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former Subway sandwich pitchman Jared Fogle did not act on fantasies related to his conviction for child pornography, and his 15-1/143 year prison sentence should be reduced, his lawyer argued during an appeals hearing on Friday in federal court.
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Fogle wrote the legal docs himself, and it's convoluted for sure, but the essence is that the former Subway pitchman should never have been charged with conspiracy because it doesn't apply to the basic alleged crime of distributing sexually explicit pictures of minors.
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Director Ezra Edelman weaves together all the aspects of his subject's life—the gridiron glory, the pitchman years, the so-called Trial of the Century, the shameful aftermath—without ever taking his eye off the larger social implications of Simpson's celebrity and complicated personality.
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On that day, the former NFL star and rental car pitchman, whose life is chronicled in the series O.J.: Made in America, the second installment of which aired Tuesday, met with friends who had come to his house to mourn the death of his ex-wife.
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Despite the fact that Phelps has collected more medals than some countries have ever collected (India, for example), Patrick Rishe, director of the sports business program at Washington University of St. Louis, said companies may think twice when it comes to signing him on as a pitchman.
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InfoWars Must Pay Pepe the Frog Creator $20123,000, Never Sell Pepe Merch Again in SettlementInfoWars founder, conspiracy theorist, and tainted supplement pitchman Alex Jones has settled with…Read more ReadAfter discovering an image that appeared to be child pornography, the attorneys said, they immediately contacted the FBI.
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The new role for Goldsmith, who is also an equity partner in Astral Tequila, is reminiscent of the pitchman pivot done by Paul Marcarelli, an actor most known for his Verizon "Can you hear me now" ads but last year, he switched to back rival Sprint Nextel.
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Booker was a young Newark city councilor when Dick and Betsy DeVos brought him to Michigan to play pitchman for Proposal 1, a 2000 ballot question that would have made private school vouchers a right enshrined in the state constitution and competency testing mandatory for Michigan's teachers.
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And it will place Mr. Salonen, one of classical music's great disrupters — and the rare conductor who is tech savvy and cool enough to have been a pitchman for Apple — at the helm of an orchestra seeking to feed off the creative energy of Silicon Valley.
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He worked as a sportscaster for NBC, appeared in a variety of movies -- including as the dimwitted Officer Nordberg in the "Naked Gun" series -- and as a pitchman, most memorably in Hertz commercials where he leaps over luggage and dodges passengers in a race to get to his flight.
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Jared Fogle, the former Subway pitchman who pleaded guilty last year to sex acts with minors and distribution of child pornography, is blaming the parents of one of his victims, arguing that their divorce and lack of supervision led to the girl's emotional distress that they attributed to him.
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I mean who can blame Nike, I suppose, when LeBron James, the world's most famous athlete, is the human being who is your most prominent non-Jordan pitchman, you gotta put him in the ugliest shit imaginable OKC: Honestly, It's impressive how awful these are, soup-to-nuts.
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Enthusiastic crotch-dust pitchman, mumbling broadcaster, perpetual thorn in Kobe Bryant's side, star of Kazaam and player of a bit part in Grown Ups 26, prominent hamburger investor, NBA champion, borderline adequate rapper, brave advocate for recovering from surgery "On Company Time"—we would know none of this.
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A spectacular pitchman with a multicolored mohawk and voice that can break into the register of an excited teenage boy, the single, 6-foot-3½-inch Mr. Landis now ranks among Hollywood's most sought-after writers for mainstream genre fare: action, horror and outré adaptations of beloved properties.
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His initial foray into congressional diplomacy was not smooth: Mr. Mnuchin served as chief pitchman for the president's 2017 tax cut, rankling Democrats by producing a one-page economic assessment of a nearly 500-page bill that claimed the $1.5 trillion package would not add to the budget deficit.
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Henry W. Bloch, who founded the tax preparation company H & R Block with his brother and was its folksy pitchman in television commercials for decades, helping to establish it as one of the most recognizable brands in American business, died on Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo. He was 96.
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Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)InfoWars founder, conspiracy theorist, and tainted supplement pitchman Alex Jones has settled with artist Matt Furie, creator of the unfathomably widespread Pepe the Frog meme, for $15,000 after InfoWars used the image on an obnoxious poster it sold during the 2016 elections, Vice reported on Monday.
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In a statement responding to the research, Dyson founder and TV pitchman James Dyson scathingly referred to the study as "a patently commercial and incredulous piece of so-called research" and pointed out Redway's historical ties to the European Tissue Symposium, which represents the interests of tissue paper producers in Europe.
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Oppenheimer tells the familiar story of Reagan's youthful ardor for Roosevelt; his career as a Hollywood labor leader; his growing hostility to Communist infiltration of the unions; and his turn to the right when he became a pitchman for General Electric, began to associate with anti-Communists, and married Nancy Davis.
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The &aposDude You&aposre Getting a Dell&apos Guy Condemns Trump&aposs Excuses for NazisBen Curtis, aka the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy, served as Dell Computer's pitchman for years …Read more ReadYou can read Dell's belated response below:At the most basic level human emotion can be divided into into love or hate.
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Before 21975, O.J. Simpson's greatest contributions to the culture were threefold: his record-breaking, award-winning career as a running back in college and professional football; his stint as a broadcaster and commercial pitchman, most notably running and hurdling through airports for Hertz rental cars; and as The Naked Gun films' detective Nordberg, a victim of nonstop slapstick calamities.
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A friend of the president, who has met with senior White House staff in the last week, said Trump and his team appear ready to make August the kickoff month for tax relief with a new pitchman in communications director Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street veteran with strong economic roots, and several surrogates in the Cabinet and business world.
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BALTIMORE — Democratic critics of President Obama's trade agenda got a playful warning from Joe BidenJoe BidenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE on Thursday, when the vice president announced that he'll be the administration's leading pitchman for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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If some enterprise solutions pitchman or government contractor can sell the top brass on the idea that a half-baked bit of automation will save it some money, the cashier, clerk, call center employee might be replaced by ill-functioning machinery, or see their hours cut to make space for it, the users will be made to suffer through garbage interfaces that waste hours of their day or make them want to hellscream into the receiver—and no one wins.
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