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There is much to be discussing and planning but perhaps you are joining me for dinner tomorrow and we can chew the fats.

Tora, tora, tora!

Pertti

	David Crutton – 1/14/00, 3:01pm
to:	Harriet Greenbaum
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re:	it just got worse . . .

. . . he’s bringing Aqua.

	[email protected] 1/14/00, 3:12pm (10:12am local)
to:	[email protected] [email protected]
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re:	arrival

In light of today’s events I have changed my travel plans. Rick Korning and I will fly in tomorrow morning at 8:30am. We will travel directly to the office, but would you let the Marriott know of our earlier arrival. David, I know that Rick is keen to take you through the two-year growth plan tomorrow evening. If Pertti has arrived it would be useful if he joined you. Harriet, if you are free, perhaps you could join me for dinner.

I look forward to seeing you both,

Jim

	David Crutton – 1/14/00, 3:17pm
to:	Harriet Greenbaum
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re:	dinner

Am I missing something here?

	[email protected] 1/14/00, 3:22pm
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re:	arrival

We’re delighted that you’re arriving sooner rather than later. Harriet would love to join you in the evening. Her inexperience can only be diminished by sitting at the feet of the Gods! It will also give her an opportunity to take you through my own Five-Point New Business Strategy. Until then, best wishes.

David

	David Crutton – 1/14/00, 3:26pm
to:	Zoë Clarke
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re:	job

Look in the new business files for a document called “Five-Point Strategy, ’95.” I think it has Westbrooke’s name on the cover. Bring it straight in. Don’t make plans for this evening – once I have amended it, you have some typing to do.

	Pinki Fallon – 1/14/00, 3:35pm
to:	Harriet Greenbaum
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re:	I’m back

Just got in. Anything I can do on Coke? . . . 

	Harriet Greenbaum – 1/14/00, 3:44pm
to:	Pinki Fallon
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re:	I’m back

Thank heaven for that. Come and see me with Liam. The Finnish campaign is diabolical. It’s also TV only – perhaps the pair of you can lend it some credibility with a few posters.

	[email protected] 1/14/00, 4:12pm
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re:	Carry On Advertising

You will not believe the pure fucking farce that is playing out. Someone told Tarzan F. Weissmuller that we were presenting hot work and he turned moral majority. So Crutton’s canned “IT’S IN THE CAN” and we’re going with a piece of tosh they came up with in Finland. I was in Harriet’s gaff just now having a look at a fax of the storyboards
and it’s ten times worse than embarrassing. It has sunshine, dazzling smiles and teenagers that make the Brady Bunch look like psycho crackheads. And, get this, it has Aqua. I needn’t say another word. Harriet asked us to do some posters for it to, you know, give it an edge. Where the fuck do we begin?

Pinki’s back. Apparently Tarzan F. made Crutton persuade her to return. She floated in on a perfect cloud of righteousness. That changed the moment she clapped eyes on the Scanda-bollocks. She’s sitting at her desk now with her pen frozen over her pad – totally lost, poor cow.

If we win this pitch, I swear on the life of my mother that I will hang up my Magic Markers and get a McJob.

	[email protected] 1/14/00, 4:22pm (8:22pm local)
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re:	LOVE update