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Celebrity Saturday: Jennifer Aniston for Smartwater

 Click here to see a few more Smartwater ads featuring Jennifer Aniston.

Celebrity Saturday Part II: Kim Kardashian sells more stuff

If you want to buy some of Kim Kardashian's 'old' clothes, you're in luck. She's selling some of them on eBay. A whopping 10% of the proceeds will go to charity.

Click here for a link to the Kardashian Kollection of clothing at Sears.

Celebrity Saturday: Kim Kardashian for Midori

Go to Midori's Facebook page and you'll get the chance to download videos and photos of Kim Kardashian as well as Midori recipes — but only if you LIKE it.

Click here to see the Kardashian family's most recent Christmas card.

Cee Lo Green and Purrfect are suddenly everywhere

Saturday I told you about Cee Lo Green and his cat Purrfect teaming up with Meow Mix cat food.

Today I learned that Cee Lo Green has been named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business. And he and Purrfect are on the magazine's cover.

Also on Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business, "actress Jessica Alba, as co-Founder of The Honest Company, director Wes Anderson, comedian Aziz Ansari and Deborah Borda, CEO of the LA Philharmonic and Thomas Tull, CEO of Legendary Entertainment."

Via The Hollywood Reporter

The ultimate zombie fighter recommends Avon

Star of the Resident Evil zombie movie franchise, Milla Jovovich, is my favorite action hero.

Now she's also appearing in ads for Avon.

Here's one of her recent tweets.

Click here to watch a Mad Men/Walking Dead mashup.

Celebrity Saturday: Cee Lo Green for Meow Mix cat food

Cee Lo Green got his cat Purrfect from an animal shelter. Now he's teaming up with Meow Mix cat food to raise money for pet shelters.

He's created a remix of Meow Mix's famous "meow, meow, meow" jingle.

Click here to listen to Cee Lo Green's remix of the Meow Mix jingle. For every download, the cat food brand will donate brand will donate a pound of Meow Mix to the Los Angeles branch of Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS).

Click here to watch the original Meow Mix jingle being sung by a cat.

Via AdFreak

Perfect casting: Charlie Sheen in a Bavaria beer commercial

Didn't have a Celebrity Saturday post this weekend, so I owe you one.

This spot starring Charlie Sheen is hilarious — and very smart advertising, IMHO.

Click here to watch the Bavaria beer spot starring Charlie Sheen.

Advertising Agency: Selmore, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creative Director: Diederick Hillenius
Art Director: Tibor van Ginkel
Copywriter: Thomas Reinhold
Agency Producer: Marga Bierema
Account Supervisor: Olivier Koning
Advertiser's Supervisors: Peer Swinkels, Ralph Bogaerts, Jeroen Vonk
Account Manager: Vincent Breedveld/Eel Suermondt
Producer: Saskia Kok
Director: Jonathan Herman
D.O.P: Glynn Speeckeart
Editor: Gert Van Berckelaer
Music: Massivemusic
Sound Design / Arrangement: Fc Walvisch
Post Production: Hectic Electric
Other Credits: Richard H. Coll

Via Ads of the World

Bonus Celebrity Saturday: Adrian Grenier's new retro beer

Entourage star Arian Grenier is launching a beer brand, Churchkey Can Co. The beer is packaged in old-school cans that require a can opener.

Via Pursuitist

Celebrity Saturday: Drew Barrymore debuts her own brand of pinot grigio

Actress Drew Barrymore is launching her own wine label, debuting with a pinot grigio.

Her wine's label was design by artist Shepard Fairey, perhaps best known for designing Barack Obama's Hope poster.

 Via Pursuitist

A political sign worth sharing

Via Absolutely Madness

Copywriters having a bad day, Dorothy Parker understands your pain

Telegram sent by Dorothy Parker, writer and founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, to her publisher, explaining that she's falling behind schedule.

I may frame this and hang it on my office wall.

Inspiration: two-faced celebrities

Found this on Pinterest but it was unattributed. Does anyone know whose work this is?

ADDENDUM posted 17 April 2012

This is the work of Swedish artist George Chamoun.

Click here to see more of George Chamoun's work as well as the things that inspire him.

Thank you to VeesEye for identifying the artist.

Lisa Rinna wears Depends on the red carpet

In this spot for Depends adult diapers, Lisa Rinna tries on a pair and wears them under her gown as she preens on the red carpet with her husband Harry Hamlin, demonstrating how undetectable Depends are under clothing.

The spot is well-written, well-cast, well-acted. It's perfect in every way.

Kudos to Lisa Rinna and Ogilvy & Mather, New York.

Click here to watch Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin in the commercial for Depends.

Here is the ad that's part of the campaign.