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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Barry Tatelman leaves Jordan's Furniture

Barry Tatelman, left, and his brother Eliot.

Barry Tatelman, one half of the famed Barry-and-Eliot Tatelman team that starred in Jordan's Furniture ads, has left the company to pursue other interests such as helping to produce a Broadway show "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," starring actor John Lithgow, Jordan's Furniture said today.

For years the two brothers were hammy impresarios who pitched everything from loveseats to lowboys in a series of local TV ads, which sometimes parodied national ads by companies such as the Gap and Volkswagen.

Besides Broadway, Barry Tatelman will dabble in Hollywood; he is a principal of a new film company called "Filmshop" and he is working on a TV series, according to a Jordan's press release.

"I loved every second of my partnership and 34 years with Eliot," Barry Tatelman said in a statement. "We took a company from five employees to almost 2,000 and had a ball doing it!"

Brother Eliot Tatelman has now taken the helm and runs Jordan's with his two sons, the company said.

The company was purchased by famous investor Warren Buffett and his Berkshire Hathaway firm in 1999.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)

Too Bad.. But it sounds like He is moving on with his Dearms

Good luck..

My brother worked for a company that filmed their commercials. He said the guys were quite involved in the whole process and were a riot. On one of their ads they actually hooked up a love seat to a ski lift and rode it up the mountain.

jimsig wrote:My brother worked for a company that filmed their commercials. He said the guys were quite involved in the whole process and were a riot. On one of their ads they actually hooked up a love seat to a ski lift and rode it up the mountain.

I remember that one.

love these guys!!! They just made you want to go buy at their place cause they were so nice. Really good marketing!!!!!!!

and Ravi for gods sake I thought someone had died.......dont do that again....lol!

they sound like the Smithe Brothers in Chicago, who last year, the day before April Fool's Day advertised that they had bought the naming rights to Wrigley Field and were redecorating it and naming it Smithe Field!

photogal wrote:and Ravi for gods sake I thought someone had died.......dont do that again....lol!

But I made you read it didn't I?

Oh no!!!!!!! Pony-tail guy?
We in Atlantic Canada have always gotten our American cable stations out of Boston, so we know the Jordan ads very well!!!!!! Good luck, Barry!

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought maybe David Ortiz had been traded to the Yankees for a minor league prospect.

Wino you know wrote:When I saw the title of this thread, I thought maybe David Ortiz had been traded to the Yankees for a minor league prospect.

Nah, that would be Ortiz, Ramirez, Schilling being traded for single A prospects.

aeroparrot wrote:

Wino you know wrote:When I saw the title of this thread, I thought maybe David Ortiz had been traded to the Yankees for a minor league prospect.

Nah, that would be Ortiz, Ramirez, Schilling being traded for single A prospects.

or that the Sox had actually paid what J.D. Drew's agent is asking for 5 years

..wait... that'd just be a STUPID day in N.E.

Wino you know wrote:When I saw the title of this thread, I thought maybe David Ortiz had been traded to the Yankees for a minor league prospect.

DON'T EVEN GO THERE. when we were in florida in novemeber a lady at the deli counter saw tag along's boston hat. she said that she had heard that manny had been traded to the yankees. i came running over from the bakery freaking out.

with all the weird activity going on with rsn ( that would be "red sox nation") i would have believed anything.

don't mess with us. it's too emotional
now that i think about it. you know how bn has it's slogan.. "you either get it or you don't.... " same applies to rsn, ya just can't explain it.

Now all we got is the lame Bernie and Phyll's commercials!