Jerry
Della Famina started his first advertising business in 1961 as a junior
copywriter. He worked on such accounts as Isuzu, Meow Mix, Beck's Beer, Blue
Nun Wine, Chemical Bank, Dow Brands, and Pan Am. In 1986, jerry sold his agency
and left it in June of 1992. During his
six-month from the advertising industry, he opened two successful restaurants
and a popular food market in East Hampton, New York. Jerry opened a new agency,
Jerry, Inc., in December 1992, with the announcement that he had been awarded
the Newsweek account. Jerry serves on the boards of WNYC-TV, The Children's Aid
Society, City meals-on-Wheels and an industry-wide initiative called Ads
against AIDS. With his accomplishments in the industry, Jerry was honored as
the Czar of Madison Avenue by Smirnoff Vodka, and has recently been cited A
Creative Leader Since 1980 by The Wall Street Journal. Jerry has written two
books; From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor, best-seller, and
An Italian Grows in Brooklyn, no-seller. The lead of his hero, Jimmy Breslin,
Jerry Della Femina writes an award-winning weekly humor column for the East
Hampton Independent. He received an
honorary doctorate from the University of Missouri in 1983 and from Long Island
University in 1989. He's married to Judy
Licht, they have two young children, a daughter Jessie.
2.
Jerry
Della Femina Quotes
“I
honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your
clothes on” – Jerry Della Femina Quote
“A lot of
its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.”- Jerry Della Femina
Quote
“It goes
back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an
Oscar.”- Jerry Della Femina Quote
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