Now there's a career I'd love to have

There was a recent article on Mickey Spillane in the Charleston Post and Currier that I found via Sarah Weinman's site. What a perfect writing career Spillane had. At the height of his career he had something like four or five of the bestselling books of all-time, he's still a cultural icon and he made beer commercials. I wonder if there are any writers today who could be a spokeman for Miller Lite.