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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 11:04:50 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Sept 16, 2018 11:04:50 GMT
Hell, he could do an infomercial for magic wringing mops and I’d still watch it. Just imagine him, sleeves rolled up, pushing a mop gently yet firmly over the fake stretch of flooring, dancing with the mop, using his deepest and most sultry voice to tell us about its utterly phenominal absorbent qualities. Sigh. ☺️ Oh, I would kill to see him doing this! Do you remember the "commercial" of WC in SNL? LOL. Seriously, I don't think there is any "charitable" motivation other than a fat paycheck behind this commercial. UPMC has been criticised for spending exorbitant money on advertising, so I am sure they gave him lavish honorary. And I am not sure I really like the ad about liver-transplant: reminds me I am not rich enough to pay a kind of health insurance needed to skip the line (there is an UPMC in Rome, as well). And doing voice-over for commercials is a perfectly honest way of doing money. However, he hasn't done it for a while, has he? Where in this liver transplant ad is there any suggestion that it is advocating "jumping the queue"?? I don't see anything suggesting that. Living donor transplants isn't synonymous for jumping the queue at all as far as I know. Living donor transplants is something that is encouraged at all income levels because it is preferred to read donations in many cases. All I see is an ad encouraging living donor transplants.
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 12:45:39 GMT
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Post by Hannah Lee on Sept 16, 2018 12:45:39 GMT
Remember, he was in Zoolander 2! LOL! Plus remember the faux ad done almost entirely on the toilet for SNL?
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 13:00:49 GMT
Post by miriel68 on Sept 16, 2018 13:00:49 GMT
Where in this liver transplant ad is there any suggestion that it is advocating "jumping the queue"?? I don't see anything suggesting that. Living donor transplants isn't synonymous for jumping the queue at all as far as I know. Living donor transplants is something that is encouraged at all income levels because it is preferred to read donations in many cases. All I see is an ad encouraging living donor transplants. Sorry, not being a native-speaker I could misunderstand the message of the commercial. I read it as: we (UPMC) have more liver donors than any other healthcare institution so if you pay for our health insurance you will have the chance to get your liver without waiting in the queue. Here in Italy we have a "national" health insurance, but the queues for the specialists, treatments, hospitals etc. are very long and many people buy a private insurance to have access to better care. (I would like to do it, but the "good" ones are very expensive)
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 14:05:21 GMT
Post by queenzod on Sept 16, 2018 14:05:21 GMT
Miriel, that’s the way I read it, too. He does say “get out of the queue,” and not “Jump the queue,” but yeah. They’re inferring if you switch to them they can get you a living donor liver transplant faster, which might save your life. I didn’t hear any requests for donors, I heard an ad directed at people needing livers.
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 14:33:59 GMT
Post by ellie on Sept 16, 2018 14:33:59 GMT
Perhaps they just had a shitload of money and wanted Ben’s soothing baritone for their liver transplant ads. 😃 Quite probably! But why is he doing this? It seems to me a kind of step back: it is one thing to do a commercial in which you are an asset as yourself (like Le Couturier or earlier Dunlop) and another to just read a commercial. Probably because he gets paid a shitload of money. Useful when you have a supershed to build & ever increasing amounts of kids to feed and educate. 😀. Lots of big stars do adverts. It doesn’t take up much time and pays well.
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 15:29:50 GMT
Post by miriel68 on Sept 16, 2018 15:29:50 GMT
Quite probably! But why is he doing this? It seems to me a kind of step back: it is one thing to do a commercial in which you are an asset as yourself (like Le Couturier or earlier Dunlop) and another to just read a commercial. Probably because he gets paid a shitload of money. Useful when you have a supershed to build & ever increasing amounts of kids to feed and educate. 😀. Lots of big stars do adverts. It doesn’t take up much time and pays well. Right! I was forgetting about the supershed, he needs to import this special wood from Easter Island, lol! And he is probably already putting funds for Eton & Oxbridge for his children.
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Post by cassandra on Sept 16, 2018 15:42:50 GMT
People forget that stars have staff++accountants, publicists, managers, etc. they have to pay. When Samuel Jackson did “Snakes on a Plane,” I asked why, and the answer was to pay his manager. Also, who knows how business is done in China? Child in Time got movie house distribution, maybe part of tha deal was BC signing on to promote this company. My point is this is all speculation, but it shouldn’t lean to the critical side in the absence of fact.
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 15:59:52 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Sept 16, 2018 15:59:52 GMT
Miriel, that’s the way I read it, too. He does say “get out of the queue,” and not “Jump the queue,” but yeah. They’re inferring if you switch to them they can get you a living donor liver transplant faster, which might save your life. I didn’t hear any requests for donors, I heard an ad directed at people needing livers. That's not the way I interpreted it. I thought that this organization was saying that at their centres they have plenty of live donors and so going to one of their hospitals means you have a greater chance of getting that benefit. I didn't see anything that smacked of outright elitism. Isn't it about the hospital system under the umbrella of the UP that they are talking about and not just insurance? Anyway, regardless, I don't see what is so wrong with him doing this ad. It is a job and this hospital system seems to do a lot of charity work and seems pretty egalitarian, so him doing it doesn't seem like something that should be viewed with a raised eyebrow or with askance to me. I saw a lot of bullshit posts on this on sites like Gator saying stuff like "Oh, look at "Mr. I'm for the NHS" is doing now! What a hypocrite!" which just frosts my cookies. He can do ads for this company and still fully support the NHS, IMO.
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 20:33:03 GMT
Post by miriel68 on Sept 16, 2018 20:33:03 GMT
hat's not the way I interpreted it. I thought that this organization was saying that at their centres they have plenty of live donors and so going to one of their hospitals means you have a greater chance of getting that benefit. I didn't see anything that smacked of outright elitism. Isn't it about the hospital system under the umbrella of the UP that they are talking about and not just insurance? Anyway, regardless, I don't see what is so wrong with him doing this ad. It is a job and this hospital system seems to do a lot of charity work and seems pretty egalitarian, so him doing it doesn't seem like something that should be viewed with a raised eyebrow or with askance to me. There is nothing wrong with him doing the commercials if he needs money. There is nothing wrong with me not liking ads for exclusive health care, either: UPCM in Rome costs regional authorities about 100 million euro a year but it is for VIPs only: government people, embassies and such. I am not a VIP and I don't have 700 euros to pay for a simple check-up so I guess if I needed a liver I would wait in line. Maybe in the USA it works differently, I don't know. But why to do a commercial like this if not for a financial reason? Still, it doesn't mean I think B. "shouldn't" do these commercials. Two separate things.
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Post by mllemass on Sept 19, 2018 7:17:56 GMT
People are recognizing his voice and reacting:
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