Pre-Wonder Years

Last week a local radio station morning team interviewed child actor Fred Savage, Kevin Arnold from “The Wonder Years” television show, on his current role as director of the movie “Daddy Day Camp.” Low and behold, Fred shared with the DJ’s that one of his first television commercials was for a shopping mall in Milwaukee called Brookfield Square.

That’s when I started getting calls. It’s true. Back in the early 80’s we cast and subsequently produced a series of TV commercials with Fred Savage.

He was seven years old – pre “The Wonder Years.” At any rate, we had to do some digging, but I found the original audition tape and shared our story on the air (Listen: WAV | MP3) with Jane and Kidd from WMYX.

We may have a knack for identifying good talent. You also might get a kick out of knowing that we produced a commercial for our client Bank Mutual featuring Tina Fey. She went on to be a head writer for “Saturday Night Live” and now stars in her own show with Alec Baldwin on NBC, called “30 Rock.”

I’m not sure we can take credit for their success, but I do think it’s safe to say we can spot talent when we see it.