ADMITTEDLY, fine commercial videos of earlier productions of "Sweeney Todd" already exist, as well as original cast recordings.
Admittedly the commercial could have been better timed, but you can't fault the timing of his immigrant ancestors whose 1916 departure was just shy of the 1917 Russian Revolution, a 1919 pogram in Berdychiv, and widespread destruction of the city by Soviet troops in 1920.
"There is absolutely no sense in which we are aiming to be commercial – though admittedly we thought that about War Horse," he said from the stage of the Old Vic, whose glorious 18th-century auditorium has just been given a sparkling refurbishment.
Hypnotised and hypnotic, mad and maddening, surely no commercial studio film (admittedly, a commercial and critical flop on its release) has ever offered and withheld such intricacy of intent and interpretation as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Admittedly there is a strong commercial element here; adult admission is a hefty $25.
The other half were over-the-top (though admittedly quite cool), super-ambiguous commercials that substituted any actual information about the phones with lasers and explosions.
Samsung is known for going after Apple in its smartphone ads, with commercials that are admittedly pretty funny, depicting the Apple faithful waiting in line, for instance.
Talking about how sports -- as well as colleges' business and music programs -- need commercial backing, he said, "Admittedly, there are no ironclad, specific criteria for judging when commercial interests overwhelm college sports.
Admittedly the amount of traffic a commercial site will lose as a result of this deal will probably be small.
They just failed – admittedly in the face of much less benign commercial circumstances – to make any appreciable headway in delivering them.
