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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

North Shore Natives Behind Taco Bell's Superbowl Commercial

They grew up in Northbrook and Glencoe, and they're behind one of the most popular Superbowl ads of the year — 'Viva Young.'

Maybe you were laughing too hard to catch the hint in Taco Bell's Viva Young, Super Bowl commercial — Bernie Goldblatt is sneaking out of The Glencobrooke Retirement Home.  The 60-second story of a gang of rowdy seniors on a wild night out in L.A. has already collected more than two million views on YouTube, and some former North Shore kids are behind it.  Brian Siedband, and Gordy Sang, two Los Angeles-based ad executives who grew up in Northbrook and Glencoe, respectively, came up with the idea for Taco Bell after "kicking around the thought of retirement home residents escaping for a night out," Siedband told the Northbrook Star. Siedband graduated from Glenbrook North High School in 1995 and Sang went to New Trier, according to the …

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