Madonna spreads for Louis Vuitton but in Japan Kiefer Sutherland & Brad Pitt put out as well

January 10, 12:58 PMPop Culture ExaminerDominic Patten

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The Material Girl's new heels in the air ad campaign for Louis Vuitton is, in my humble opinion, pretty tacky and in our Celebrity News Examiner's opinion, pretty airbrushed.

Get the deal on  Madonna spreading it for Louis Vuitton here

However Madonna's multimillion dollar contract with the luxury accessories brand is far from some of the worst or weirdest celeb shilling out there. It's not exactly the same as selling handbags but Bono of U2 will start hawking his opinionated and well worn wares in the New York Times's Op-Ed section soon. Beginning this very Sunday in fact, the singer will be writing on what ever pops into his head in an ongoing column that truthfully should be probably been entitled "What Fresh Hell Is This?"

On the more obviously retail side, Jack Baur is back this weekend for a new season of 24, but star Keifer Sutherland has been busy doing ads in Japan spoofing the show for years ... to decidedly mixed results.

Click here to see all four of Kiefer Sutherland's Japanese Calorie Mate TV ads

For more on the return of Kiefer Sutherland and 24 click here.

God knows why Keith Richards appeared in a Louis Vuitton campaign last year. It seems like something that Sir Mick Jagger would do but not our beloved and authentic Mr. Riffhard. Perhaps Keith, who also had a poignant cameo in the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, did it because he was sick of all the attention Mick gets. Perhaps he did it for the dough. Or perhaps he did it because maybe the greatest rhythm guitarist in the world isn't as pure as we'd like to believe. 

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Then there was former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's appearance in another Louis Vuitton campaign, which was just weird. Weird in concept, who were they marketing too, and worse in execution, with a very tense looking former President looking like he was hanging on for dear life going by a Berlin Wall stand-in. Made you wonder if that was spoilt meat he had in the bag.

In that sense, as anyone who ever has been subjected to her music knows for sure, Madonna is. as usual, way behind the groove.

Nowadays celebs are shameless selling every thing from Brad Pitt pushing beer to the purposefully striding Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron pandering for Chanel and J'Adore. Madonna even did a number of overseas ads back in the 1990s. However, if there is one thing the Internet has changed it is that no longer can the famous hide the spare change they pick up from appearing in ads in Japan - YouTube or a good gossip blog will find you!

Then again, the likes of Mr. Pitt, with ATM ads, Quentin Tarantino with satellite TV ads and Mr. Sutherland, with that terrible 24 take off for the terribly named Calorie Mate snack, are still shilling in the land of the Rising Sun. 

So perhaps some things never change - internet or no internet