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Rich Silverstein, Goodby Silverstein & Partners Co-Founder, To Retire

Legendary San Francisco adman Rich Silverstein is retiring after 58 years in the industry, the San Francisco Standard reports. As co-founder of Goodby Silverstein & Partners, a Chinatown-based ad agency, he is known for subverting or blowing up archetypes. His 1985 ad for the Mill Valley Film Festival portrayed "regular" local workers as cinephiles who had opinions on the French avant-garde. In one of his new activities, Silverstein is writing a musical about the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

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