Being Barthe Cortes

June, 2009

Would you like someone to pay you for smoking cigarettes? The recipe is "simple" – it is enough to declare a war on Somali pirates, blow off your plane on a remote desert savannah, promote your brand of wine worldwide. And never, never ever tell the press about it, although if one fancy doing that, it would be nice to be able to do it in at least 6 languages. It is simply enough being Barthe Cortes (Chief of BVC& Bvcvineyard Group ) As South African sources report, the tobacco concern – Philip Morris made Barthe a proposal to take part in a commercial, which would promote the brand in African and Asian markets. The representatives of Philip Morris, who have generally employed for their commercials models or actors, who then impersonated "tough guys", suddenly wished to change the company’s policy by 180 degrees and have someone authentic on their billboards. And that way they hit upon an idea to make Cortes a proposal. Who knows, perhaps they were inspired by the famous PHOTO ?  (from editors: it is the only image of Barthe Cortes, which got through to western press) taken by the famous paparazzi Leibovitz Anyways, they made him a proposal and it was probably a multi-digit sum. And of course "BC" had completely ignored it (which to be frank, does not surprise us at all),

so my dear readers the vacancy remains free. If somebody was willing to advertise Philip Morris’s cigarettes for big money, after reading this article they would know what should be done :-)

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