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- PEOPLE, Page 91Image Problem
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- By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- Maybe he was holding out for a Bud Light commercial. Or
- maybe he hoped to make his modeling debut in Armani. In any
- event, SADDAM HUSSEIN was apparently awfully unhappy about his
- recent portrayal in a print ad for GovPx, a
- financial-data-services firm. Created by the agency Slater Hanft
- Martin, the ad pictures a close-up of the pudgy dictator with
- copy that reads, "History has shown what happens when one source
- controls all the information." Displeased, the Iraqi embassy in
- Tokyo immediately issued a letter to the Nikkei Weekly, a
- Japanese paper that had run the ad, complaining that Hussein's
- depiction was "unfavorable." The embassy also asked whether or
- not Slater had received permission from Saddam to use the shot,
- assuming perhaps that when it comes to signing release forms,
- busy despots are as available as Brooke Shields. Confused,
- Slater creative director Adam Hanft commented, "If Saddam has
- a more flattering angle, we will be glad to use it."
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