And for decades he did — so brilliantly that his place in pop culture may last longer than his adman innovations.

Warhol wasn’t merely a successful Madison Avenue adman and an emerging fine artist; as an active homosexual, he was also a criminal.

With the vote to amend the city’s noise ordinances, Minneapolis would become the first major American city to allow all five broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer, or adman.

Mr. Reed, part of an old-school breed of political admen who reveled in writing their own scripts, considered the Republican pollster Arthur Finkelstein, whom he met early in his career, a mentor.

One of the more touching anecdotes in the film was adman Ron Barrett's campaigns to help bolster the Automat during its decline.