Television viewers of this year’s Super Bowl on Feb. 5 may notice something unusual amid the usual onslaught of macho-themed commercials for beer, snack chips and pickup trucks.
In a 60-second ad scheduled to run shortly before kickoff, the actor John Malkovich appears as a fashion designer named John Malkovich who discovers that the web domain JohnMalkovich.com is controlled by another John Malkovich — this one a fisherman behind the “ULTIMATE Fishing Site!!”
“How is it that JohnMalkovich.com is taken?” Mr. Malkovich (the actor) asks, sitting before a computer in what appears to be a Paris atelier.
His elegant French assistant stops draping a dress form to answer: “Somebody already snatched it.”