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Sexual chemistry: recharge the battery
They are not a couple, but they play one on TV. That's actress and former Bond girl Teri Hatcher and defensive end-turned-TV commentator Howie Long. The unlikely pair started appearing in a campaign for Radio Shack last year. Their new-- millennium take on the old Mariette Hartley/Jim Garner Polaroid pairing proved so effective, they will appear in four new ads starting next week.
Most of the ads in the series begin in the same way: Open on an inspired, futuristic, architectural set as puckish music plays in the background. Teri scampers out wearing some head-totoe flamboyant color, like flaming tomato, and jumps around former footballer Long, a teeming block of chiseled jock, who wears black.
She shows him some new gizmo and dances around him as they trade barbs and solid seasonal gift ideas. As a pair, they embody the new mythology about...