Jeff Millman is a decorated veteran of the ad wars.

He’s created memorable work for accounts in virtually every business category, from fast food to air travel, health care to beer, men’s clothing to men’s magazines, weapons systems, sports teams, banks, casinos, et al. He loaned Johnny Cash his guitar for a Comfort Inn commercial, shot an insurance spot in Homestead, Fla., the day after Hurricane Andrew, and taught Donald Trump what a storyboard is.

A writer and producer by trade, Millman has won every national and international advertising award, many times over. Lions at Cannes, Pencils at The One Show, Gold Medals at CA, Clio, Art Director’s Club, New York Festival and London Festival. He was Adweek magazine’s Creative Director of the Year. He was the first person from the Southeast to be named to the Board of the prestigious New York Festivals.

Jeff is an avid but poor golfer and a barely-adequate-but-not-easily-embarrassed guitar player. He lives in Glen Arm, Md., with Leah, his wife of 35 years, and his dog, Big Pauley. He has seen Bruce Springsteen 58 times.

It’s the spring of 2010. Nothing is sacred. And nothing, absolutely nothing, is off limits. This includes teachers having sex with students and husbands having sex with mother-in-laws. It’s the End of Days, right? No, it’s the Preakness Infield Fest advertising campaign.

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A lot is being written about the near-absence of advertising targeted to Baby Boomers like me. It’s the $750 billion question. Why, if the over-50s account for over one-third of the U.S. population and control over half of its discretionary income, are we the targets of less than 10% of all the advertising?

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In 1965, Pete Townshend wrote the most famous line in rock and roll history, “I hope I die before I get old.” Well, he only has a week left.

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So, now we have to ask. A parenting blogger gushes about some brand of cereal. Was she paid by the company? Some dude with a funny avatar posts something about his cool trip to a seaside town. Does he even exist, or was he made up by the town’s ad agency?

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Before I was old, I was cool. My friends, my music, my hair, my clothes, my loathing of anything mainstream, my whole Woodstock world — cooler than any cool in history. Jeff Millman, gkv’s Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, is Old Cool.

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