Nobody nose the Courteney we’ve seen
By Wade Kwon
Birmingham native and super-Friend TV multimillionaire Courteney Cox has popped up in town again, this time on a billboard campaign for the Ronald McDonald House. No, that’s not where the fast-food clown prince goes to recover after a special sauce bender — it’s a great charity that provides housing to families in town with children undergoing medical treatments.
But because we’re incredibly shallow people, all we care about is our CeCe.
Love that arty shot. Black-and-white photo = classy. But clown nose = lame. And the “nose” pun, ugh. We’d like to think nostril humor has still has flare, but maybe it’s mucus to your ears. Those corny billboards … looks like we’ll just have to septum for what they are.
(Get it???)
Join us as we look at Courteney’s past campaigns in the world of advertising …
“Who’s gonna drink the Diet Coke?” Probably that bastard Gunther. Barista, indeed.
In the super hype leading up to the Super Bowl — you know, that football game they played before the two-part “Friends” episode with Julia Roberts and the monkey — this 1996 campaign featured Courteney and company swilling and shilling Diet Coke. More black-and-white head shots — yay.
It must’ve paid off: She and hubby David (hi, David!) were later featured in TV spots for Coca-Cola.
By the way, we’ll take Phoebe to block.
Courteney was featured in ads for Noxzema and Maybelline early on, before she packed on the pounds to a whopping weight of 95 soaking wet. These brand new magazine ads feature her in full glam mode for Kinerase, which signed her as spokeswoman in March. Yowza.
The shampoo, you jerk, not the starlet. Courteney did a series of commercials in 1999 for Head and Shoulders. And she never ever was caught with dandruff again. Flakes, yes, but dandruff, no.
If you think wearing a clown nose is embarrassing, how about those, you know, moments, when, you know, it’s that time, um, when that monthly visitor, see, comes a-callin’? You know …
This 1985 Tampax commercial marked the first time the word “period” was used on American television in the sense of … you know. Ah, Courteney, you made history when you went with the flow.
Forgive us. But love the hair. And those panties.
And how about those bitchy dancers in the back who aren’t consoling you, just blithely practicing their jetés? Damn them! (shakes fist)
You’ve come a long way, CeCe.
Saturday, April 22, 2006, 4:36 pm
I use Kinerase. I figure, we grew up under the same sun.
Sunday, April 23, 2006, 2:38 pm
it’s a shame they couldn’t make the nose red, even though they were photographing (or just printing) her in B&W.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 4:42 pm
I’ve got a sharpie and a ladder. Who says the nose can’t be red?!