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World: My Portfolio - Eric Lynn.(HSBC Bank PLC)(Interview)
Speaking from the privacy of a park near Partizan's London offices, the US-born director Eric Lynn confesses: 'I've never done an interview that's just about me. It's really very difficult to des-cribe your own work ... What do you think?'
Certainly, the ads on Lynn's reel aren't easy to pigeonhole. One thing they share, however, is a quality of gentle humour.
Lynn's 'hole in one' spot for HSBC's 'world's local bank' campaign features an American golfer who discovers that getting a hole in one in Japan means you must buy your opponents expensive gifts. By some quirk of fate, the man manages to score two holes in one, despite trying to miss the second.
Getting the ball in the hole wasn't easy. 'First, we tried a sling construction and then we had a guy throwing balls out of the woods,' Lynn says.
Like the characters featured in the HSBC campaign, Lynn found himself in unfamiliar territory while shooting. 'Working with Japanese actors was interesting - they couldn't understand a word I was saying. It was ridiculous, but it seemed to work.'
Lynn began his career as a copywriter at the Edinburgh-based agency Leith.
But agency life wasn't for him and he left after six months to enrol at Northwestern Film School in Chicago. In 2002, he was snapped up by ...
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...GRANT How do you break the ice with Loretta Lynn, one of the greatest country music singers...popular early '80s television show has a Lynn connection. In February of 1980, the...starred in an episode titled "Find Loretta Lynn!" The plot involved a trio of bumbling...
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...Byline: DEVIN GRANT As Patsy and Peggy Lynn entertained the crowd at the North Charleston...their mother, country music legend Loretta Lynn, sat just offstage watching proudly...60 Minutes." Don't worry, Mrs. Lynn hasn't been giving military secrets away...
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- Newspaper article from: Ventura County Star (Ventura, CA) December 29, 2005 700+ words
...lights and lock the doors Friday night at Lynn's Jewelry in Ventura, it will mark the...although 53-year-old owners Bob and Kitty Lynn are closing the 5,700-square-foot...what drives my clients' needs," Bob Lynn said. "Jewelry design is where I want...
- Lynn, Mass., Becomes Leading Producer of Fiber-Optic Cables.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Blake, Andrew December 13, 1999 700+ words
...Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 12 -- LYNN, Mass. -- From the beach, the horizon...optic cable will stretch from downtown Lynn, under the beach and then under the sea...The optic cable venture focuses an eye on Lynn and the North Shore's economic future...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 15, 2006 700+ words
...RATON, Fla., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Christine E. Lynn, chair of the Lynn University Board of Trustees, announced today that...com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060515/FLM007 ) Mrs. Lynn says, "We saw an extraordinary opportunity to enlist...
- Lynn defends school desegregation policy.
- News wire article from: Boston Globe (Boston, MA) February 8, 2005 700+ words
...yesterday weighed whether it is legal for Lynn public schools to continue using race as...denying student transfers. If the City of Lynn and the school system lose the appeal...desegregation plans in K-12 public schools. Lynn is one of a handful of cases nationwide...
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...forebears in Appalachian Kentucky, Loretta Lynn has spent her life writing open, disarming...straightforward musical sensibilities: Loretta Lynn's strong, simple lyrics and forceful...vocals and instrumentals.) A long-time Lynn fan, White seems to intuitively understand...
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...confirm Raytheon [RTN] executive William Lynn as deputy defense secretary, following...Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), perhaps Lynn's greatest Senate critic, has told Defense Daily he would not put a hold on Lynn's confirmation provided the vote wasn...
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- News wire article from: Macon Telegraph (Macon, GA) March 9, 2007 700+ words
...Byline: Maggie Large Mar. 9--Loretta Lynn may be in her fourth decade as a performer...religious songs and one that's pure country. Lynn performs tonight at the Macon City Auditorium...been working, to tell you the truth," Lynn said from her home in Tennessee. "I...
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...buyout offers from national real estate firms, Tom Lynn, president of Robert Lynn Co., has decided to "sell in" rather than sell...its top broker, have become partners in the firm. Lynn will retain a majority stake in the company and continue...
