On Oct 28, 8:43 am, MrBuddwing <mrbuddw...@aol.com> wrote: > On Oct 28, 6:11 am, Dave Sikula <dsik...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Regardless, I don't recall anyone complaining when the campaign used > > that dead little girl from "Poltergeist" a couple of years ago. > > You don't? Quite a few howls of outrage, as I remember. > > As for Chris Farley's appearance in the latest DirecTV adl, I don't > find it particularly offensive; David Spade's comment at the end that > it "never gets old" could be construed as a tribute to his late > friend. But I can understand the discomfort of viewers over seeing a > dead person being treated as though he or she were still around, and > being employed for commercial purposes.
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