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Norm Lewis may need a new agent

madlibrarian
#25Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 3:48pm

Good grief, even Laurence Olivier hawked cameras. The list of actors who did commercials early in their careers is too long to contemplate. For all we know Norm Lewis has donated his earnings to charity. Judge not, and all that, y'know.

Plum
#26Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 3:52pm

A) Why on earth do people working the jobs they probably hate assume that actors have the privilege of picking and choosing only the most fulfilling of labor? Acting is just another profession.

B) If you're that concerned about rising healthcare costs, it's an ED drug, which plenty of insurance companies don't even cover because they don't recognize ED as the kind of medical condition it's necessary to treat at their expense. Seriously, you can find way better targets to hit at than this.

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#27Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 3:56pm

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#28Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 5:20pm

Ya'll better back off Norm! He IS and always will be a hot sweet
potatoe and a "fine gentleman", if I may say.


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Jon
#29Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 5:26pm

A couple of years ago, Greg Jbara had a commercial for The Olive Garden running simultaneously with one in which he claimed to have high blood pressure AND high cholesterol.

I wonder if there was a connection...

Gothampc
#30Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 5:31pm

Mandy Patinkin convinced me to ask my doctor about Crestor. My doctor said I shouldn't take medical advice from someone who is so manic in his singing.
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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#31Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 5:44pm

Bob Dole was the first pitch man for Viagara and everyone knows Bob Dole's never had problems with the basement plumbing.

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goldenboy
#32Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 8:38pm

And lets not forget June Allyson for Depends
or Martha Raye for Polident
or Ethel Merman for Vel dishwashing liquid.
Video on U tube.

#33Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 8:46pm

I've tried to forget Ann Miller for Campbell's soup but I can't. No matter how much therapy, I can't.

RUkiddingme
#34Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 9:00pm

Back to the point of the original post ...

I DO believe June Allison wet her pants. I DO believe Martha Raye had false teeth.

But Norm Lewis is not convincing as an impotent man!

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#35Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 9:02pm

So you're saying he's a bad actor?

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AC126748
#36Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 9:21pm

June Allyson didn't say she used adult diapers in the original Depend ads. But like others have said, an ad is an ad. I doubt Norm Lewis is losing any sleep worrying about how people think he has ED


"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

Phyllis Rogers Stone
#37Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 9:23pm

Erectile dysfunction meds aren't generally covered by insurance, so these commercials shouldn't affect the cost of health care at all.

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#38Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/30/12 at 9:29pm

"Back to the point of the original post ..."

You can't go back to something that didn't exist.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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emilyfaye48
#39Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/31/12 at 2:25am

So, is anyone going to post a link to Norm's commercial?? or....


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ratherbewhaling
#40Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/31/12 at 3:48am

reminds me of Julia Murney talking about doing voice overs including one for a porn channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQj9U1DbqI


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#41Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/31/12 at 4:05am

Greg Jbara's done Olive Garden commercials, Max Von Essen has done Walmart commercials, La Murney does voice-overs for embarrassing hygiene products, Susan Egan's done Kmart voice-overs...

Money is money. I remember seeing Faith Prince in a god-awful eye-glasses commercial, looking like Dame Edna with better make-up back in the 90's.

Actors need constant work. Plus those Spice Channel voice-overs bought Murney her TV and furnished her apartment. There you go.


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YouAndMePal
#42Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 12/31/12 at 4:54am

Any other actors think he might have taken the job to get a good laugh at the same time as get some moolah in the bank?

broadwayjim42
#43Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 1/1/13 at 9:04pm

I saw the commercial during the news tonight and laughed my ass off. Part at the sight of him and part because the title of the thread (which I saw last night but didn't open)finally made sense.

It's a job and a paycheck. Nuff said.

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TheatreFan4
#44Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 1/2/13 at 4:17am

You're only ever one commercial character away from never having to work for money again. Then you can do what you really love to do. Theatre.

You think Flo is hurting for anything? How about that the guy who played Santa in that M&Ms commercial that's been crammed down our throats every single year for 16 years. You never know what's going to be the big one.

Then a pharmaceutical company spending 40% of their budget on advertising pays actors tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary commercials. (Is there ANYONE out there who needs a TV ad to know there are little blue pills available if they need them?)

Yes! PLENTY! How do you think Viagara became a thing? On the street? BWAHAHAHAHA!

These expenses then raise the cost of the drugs which gets spread across all the company's products which keeps health care costs rising as a rate faster than most people can afford,

No, they don't raise them. The execs raise them BECAUSE THEY CAN. They're not competing with anyone and until somebody comes out with a generic. Until that happens, they're the monopoly.

Then following the next performance, actors have to continue to ask people to donate more money to pay for more health care costs.

Yes, when Norm is asking at the end of a performance to donate to BCEFA, that is of your OWN FRUITION, he really means so struggling HIV patients can get their boner pills so they can go get WORSE HIV and not get their medications so they may live a bit longer.

Honestly, do you read before you hit submit because honestly this sounds like the ramblings of an uniformed idiot. Updated On: 1/2/13 at 04:17 AM

Brian07663NJ
#45Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 1/2/13 at 9:18am

I've never read ads posted looking for actors for any show or commercial...so do the ads say:

One handsome manly actor WITH erectile disfunction who must bring proof from his doctor.

Come on! It is a job. Give Norm a beak. I saw the ad. I recognized him but highly doubt most people outside the Broadway community will make the connection of him being a Broadway actor and the guy in the E.D. ad.

For full disclosure I hope that Norm ads this to his Playbill bio. (kidding)

btw - I love Norm!

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Playbilly
#46Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 1/2/13 at 10:01am

Get over it. All the men in those commericals are hot, with women usually 10 years younger than them. Norm fits the bill. Good for Norm. Allows him to get some $$$ and not have to do a show like SCANDALOUS ala Mr. Hearn.


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#47Norm Lewis may need a new agent
Posted: 1/2/13 at 12:30pm

I was at the final home game of the NY Giants this past Sunday and he sang the National Anthem - been to a lot of games and his was by far the best I've ever heard it sung there!