IMDB links

Mandy's IMDB profile was recently updated again with more info and some miscellaneous Mandy links (including this site!) amongst other things, but more interestingly, a Yahoo! Group dedicated to her (and nope, i didn't make that one!). So check it all out.

Added: Oh and just recently, Mandy was also featured as Artist of the Week over at AArisings.com!

This blog is not a piece of viral marketing!

Or is it?!

I found a pretty interesting post about this Pepsi Girl blog over at Clive Thompson's blog, who also writes for The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine and Wired, among others. Here's an excerpt.

During the Superbowl, Pepsi ran an ad called "Pop the Music", which technically was supposed to be a spot for its iTunes tie-in. But the commercial inadvertantly made a star out of a Mandy Amano, a woman who appears in the ad for about three or four seconds. Geeks swooned over her and began posting frantic mash notes on discussion boards planetwide.

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Also, Brand Noise reports:

People are dedicating serious time to following the every move of the models in commercials. The two current objects of desire are "That Pepsi Girl" and "The Blonde Old Navy Girl". These sites demonstrate the new "layered" reality to advertising.

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Mandy's STARmeter: #1!!!

Got this via e-mail:

Thanks to IMDb featuring TPG on their normal page, TPG has leapt to NUMBER ONE on IMDbPro's StarMeter ranking! Usually that's reserved for the likes of Brad Pitt or Lindsay Lohan.

Nerima

Once again, here's the full screenshot just in case it's not there anymore!

Mandy on IMDB.com

Holy crap. Mandy is on the front page of IMDB.com.

Here's the full screenshot just in case it's not there anymore.

This is obviously very big news. VERY big news. As IMDB is, and i quote, "Visited by over 25 million movie lovers each month!". So congratulations Mandy!

Oh and check out the amazing photo that they have on there now. Beautiful.

Thanks to Uncle Grambo and Kevin for alerting me to this piece of news. Kevin says:

No doubt you're going to be bombarded with this news: It seems that she's the new Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) "Meet the new Publicity Photo Actor." In the recent past, they have primarily been very attractive women, which is what all the message board comments say, and will probably say for her, once thousands of people click on the picture and find out "that's where I've seen her before!" She has the most incredible eyes in the included picture, made more dramatic in black and white (that still doesn't sound as obsessive as people have made you sound).

Her filmography is rather short, and I think she only shows up for about 4 seconds in Coyote Ugly (if she's one of the short-haired girls dancing on the bar). If you have the DVD (and I identified her properly), her first scene is at time point 1:05:39 for two seconds (under the ceiling fan) and her second and last scene is at 1:05:49 (at the left of the screen). There's going to be a special unrated edition released in June, but only 7 minutes of restored footage, who knows what is in those scenes.

Mandy on Halvsie.com

Mandy has been featured on Halvsie.com, a site dedicated to all things half Japanese.

Mandy is an actress who became an instant internet celebrity based on her appearance on the iTunes + Pepsi ad that appeared during the 2005 Superbowl. Given the wide audience and the connection to Apple computer, numberous postings were made almost immediately after the commercial first aired.

The most famous posts are on a blog called That Pepsi Girl, which is entirely dedicated to Mandy, and maintained by blogger/stalker "Justin" from Michigan.

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Also, here's Mandy's Maxim Online page in case you haven't already seen it. You'll find two other Web Only pics from her photoshoot on there too.

Behind the Curtain

Found a site chronicling the making of student film that has Mandy in it over here. Nice to see some of the older stuff she's been in! You'll also find two pictures of Mandy on that site if you look hard enough. Nothing major. But check it out if you like.

On an unrelated note, here are two (eeriely similar!) quotes from two different blogs talking about this Pepsi Girl site of mine.

Being hot, she has attracted at least one fanboy who is either a stalker or a great viral corporate stooge.

Creepy stalker or brillant viral marketing? I report, you decide. (She is pretty hot)

Oh my, i wonder which it is!

Excuse me while i ponder it over a bottle of Pepsi.

The Maxim write up

So i finally got my issue of the May Maxim in the mail today. Took long enough!

Here's the full write up they gave her:

Real name: Mandy Amano

Better known as: "That Pepsi girl from the Super Bowl commercial"

Her story: This Dallas-bred cutie launched 1,000 Web posts with a single appearance dancing in a Pepsi iTunes ad, inspiring nerds from Germany to Japan to create online odes to her beauty. "It's crazy," Mandy says. "I was on screen for 13 seconds. I guess i owe it all to my Pepsi wiggle." (And what a wiggle it is.)

But wait - it gets even better. The Wilhelmina model is a comic book freak, thanks in part to her father, who writes comics and raised Mandy on a steady diet of superheroes. "All my friends' parents had Georgia O'Keeffe on their walls," she says. "We had the X-men."

And on May 7 you can take Mandy home...for nothing!

To celebrate Free Comic Book Day, stores around the U.S. will be giving away copies of Ronin Hood, featuring a character based on Mandy.

See more Mandy photos and video at maximonline.com

"Crazy" indeed!

Now who would've thought that this blog would get her onto the pages of Maxim? Sure as hell not me. So imagine my surprise when Maxim contacted me (!) about getting in touch with Mandy.

And not only that, this blog also got her on the Kevin and Bean show at KROQ 106.7! And since the guys over at KROQ were gracious enough to invite me to be on the show (!!), i even got to say hi to her on air! (!!!)

Now that i would've never thought would ever happen.

But whaddaya know. It all did!

Anyhow, be sure to pick up Beckett Comics' Ronin Hood on May 7th. It's free so you've got nothing to lose!

Seacrest OUT.

MandyAmano.com updated

Check out MandyAmano.com for a flash slideshow of Mandy. And if your browser can't display flash animations (which it should, come on now, it's 2005..) click here for a gallery in .jpg form.







Oh and hey, here's an idea:

There is a blog devoted to the girl in the Pepsi commercial - the one that first aired during the Super Bowl and featured all those people opening bottles and hearing music. She was the first person in the ad, and was in it for about five seconds. Now, go ahead and have a blog about her - she's pretty cute. But this guy gets mentioned on radio shows! Here I am, blogging away, providing valuable public services to my adoring public, and this guy is getting mentions on the radio. I'm so sad. Maybe if I did a blog about some obscure actor or actress ... how about a blog about that actor in the weirdly pornographic Brawny paper towel commercial? Or would that be too gay? Krys says I should do one about the old Brawny paper towels, with the 1970s porn guy. I dug him.

- Delenda Est Carthago

So...

Has anybody gotten a copy of the May issue of Maxim yet? I'm still waiting for mine to arrive in the mail. Should be here in the next coupla days. I'll probably go out and buy another copy from the store though. That way i'll have one to frame and one to... you know...

To read.

IMDB info

Mandy's IMDB bio seems to have been updated with a little bit of trivia. Have a look. Never thought that i'd see this site referenced on IMDB!

I also got an e-mail about a short film that Mandy was in 5 years ago. Check it out.

I don't know if you have seen this, but Mandy Amano is on this short film hosted on IFILM. Here's the link:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2404112

Cheers,
Joe

Mandy mosaic

And people think I'M creepy?

(Hmm... i wish i'd thought of that first...)

On the subject of screen time...

Just a couple of excerpts from other blogs around the net. Thanks to the KROQ interview, a lot more people are aware of of Mandy now.

I was driving in to work this morning. Kevin and Bean on KROQ were raving about this new Internet fanned obsession about an actress named Mandy Amano. Mandy appeared in a Pepsi commercial during Superbowl 2005. Immediately following, a blog dedicated to Mandy began to appear on the net.

So I looked it up: http://thatpepsigirl.blogspot.com

I must admit: She is gorgeous.

[...]

But....

How the heck did this interent frenzy start? Her on screen time was, what, 5 seconds? This is amazing...

Another one:

And speaking of ads, how in the heck does three seconds of a Pepsi ad get a girl her own fan blog and subsequent radio interviews and Maxim spread? But at least it's not a blog about this Pepsi girl.

One more:

How much must it suck to be the other girl in the Pepsi/Itunes commercial? You know. The one who isn't Mandy Amano.

[...]

Dear Other Girl:

Please don't take it personally that you had approximately 4 seconds more of screen time and were unable to capitalize on it. Fame, she is a fickle bitch.

Haha. And for the record, Mandy had around 13 seconds of screen time from the two ads combined.

In other news, AdRants has a nice little write up about Mandy's rise to internet, print and radio fame.

Read about it here: Fan Blog Advances Career of Pepsi/iTunes Girl

Pepsi Girl .gifs

Hey dude, I heard about you on KROQ...

I have a PDA/phone that can use animated GIFs as screensavers, so I made a couple of Mandy from your Quicktime montage:

http://mky.ais.ucla.edu/thatpepsigirl/

You're welcome to 'em if you like 'em. :)

Also available for download here and here!

The KROQ interview!

Well, i'm guessing most people have heard the radio interview by now but just in case you haven't, you can download the entire show from this site. Look for the link on the sidebar. Get it while it's still up though because it won't be there forever! It's about a 39 meg download. The interview starts exactly around the 2:36:23 mark.

(Update: I managed to get an mp3 of the interview itself available for download here. Only 5.9 megs!)

You can also find a written recap of the show over at the Kevin and Bean blog. There's also a picture of Mandy with the Kevin and Bean gang over at the KROQ 106.7 website (under the 'sights' link).

It was a great interview by the way. Well worth listening to. Not only is Mandy like, really really pretty, but she also sounds pretty too. Haha. Oh and did i mention that i was invited to be on the show? (!) Anyhow, here's the recap of the interview itself, courtesy of the Kevin and Bean blog:

Mandy Amano, Pepsi iTunes Babe - The smoking hot actress, and the new object of geek obsession talked about the Super Bowl commercial that launched her to stardom: she didn't even know what the product was when she went to the shoot! It was kept secret with confidentiality agreements, etc... Ralph: "With that kind of security you'd think it's for Uranium or something!"  Shot around christmas, she watched it premeiere live at a party with a bunch of suprised burly guys during the game. About the stalker fan's blog devoted to her, "It was creepy at first, but it's all G rated so far!"  Yes, she's already shot her Maxim pictures, for the May issue, in a lacy bikini. Woohoo!  (Ralph: "Lacy Bikini, by the way, used to be my stripper name!") AND she's a comic book geek, too! 

Obsessed fan and blog creator Justin then came on the phone! Mandy: "I don't know whether to hug you or slap you!" Why did he decide to devote himself to her and create the blog? "I didn't have anything else better to do!" He's in college in Michigan. Ralph: "Do you major in Stalking?" Yes, he'll be getting the Maxim issue: "One to frame, and one to...you know."  Ugh! Bean: "To read, to read! I didn't like the sound of that at ALL!" Mandy: "You've been very sweet." Bean: "And 'sweet' is Japanese for creepy, right?" Ralph: "You're career's going to blow off, and we'll be like, 'Rembmer when we first had Mandy in? Now she's had that series, nominated for an Oscar twice, now she's been in rehab twice, killed that guy...we're look forward to your scandal-filled career!"

And that's just a summary. I recommend downloading the interview to hear it all for yourself. 13 minutes of Mandy interview goodness. It's good times all around.

Anyhow, thanks to Bean for having me on air and also to everyone else at the K&B show. And of course to Mandy for being such a good sport about everything!

Mandy on KROQ 106.7

I found this on another blog:

she's only on for a few seconds, but that is enough to garner more interest and appeal than for the drink, Gwen & Eve, and i-Tunes combined. After viewing the spot many times over the past few weeks, I hit the internet in search of finding more about the model/actress that, frankly, was the only reason I watched this commercial. With nothing more than 'girl who opens fridge in the Pepsi commercial' to go off of, I came across this site: That Pepsi Girl, "A blog dedicated to the super hot sexy girl in the iTunes Pepsi ads that premiered during the 2005 Super Bowl."  I'm amused and a bit relieved to find that I wasn't the only one with slight stalker tendencies. And perhaps, kinda sad and pathetic when I stop to think about it, but that's why I believe thinking is SO overrated!

Stalker? I'm not a stalker! YOU are the stalker! STALKER!!!

In other news, according to the Kevin and Bean blog, it seems that Mandy's gonna be making an (on air?) appearance on the Kevin and Bean show tomorrow (on KROQ 106.7). Not sure if they're just gonna be discussing the Pepsi ad or actually interviewing her but nevertheless, it's something for you Mandy stalkers fans to look forward to.

Mentioned in the Press

Here's a little something that slipped by me somehow. A short blurb mentioning That Pepsi Girl along side the GoDaddy.com girl that appeared on the St. Paul Pioneer Press website a while back.

Tech heartthrobs. Several tech-related Super Bowl commercials have spawned female heartthrobs. The woman who shimmies it up to iTunes music in a Pepsi and Apple Computer spot has spawned her own That Pepsi Girl blog (www.thatpepsigirl.blogspot.com). So has the buxom GoDaddy.com spokeswoman (this family newspaper will let you find that not-G-rated site on your own).

Good to know that this site is G rated!