Mothers of Invention Founder Robert Rosenthal points us to Bob Bly’s blog on which he takes to task Jerry Della Femina for comments he made in a New York Post article. Della Femina said of the advertising business, “It went from being a business of fun to being a business of money, and that changes everything.”
Bly agrees advertising should be fun but it should also be considered work and their should be any fun-having with the client’s money.
Della Femina himself puts the whole thing to rest, commenting, “What bullshit. I took Isuzu, Becks Beer, Blue Nun Wine, Meow Mix,Zip Lock bags, Dow Bathroom Cleaner, Air Wick stickups from tiny accounts or startups to giant profitable companies. That made all their stockholders a ton of money [and] I did it while I was drunk and having fun. Imagine if I was sober.”
Touche, Jerry. Bring back the Mad Men and the three martini lunch!
