DIARY: Stories we could tell ... Cake-bashing Droga gets top gun slot

<p>Well, we promised it to you, and here it is: celebrated creative </p><p>David Droga making a total fool of himself. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>For those of you who haven't already had it land in your email inbox, </p><p>this is one of the ads for the YoungGuns creative awards that we </p><p>mentioned a few weeks ago. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>It features Droga, executive creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi </p><p>London, and formerly the agency's regional ECD for Asia, attacking his </p><p>own birthday cake in fury, because it reminds him that he's too old to </p><p>enter the awards, which are reserved for creatives under the age of 30. </p><p>Personally we'd prefer that he attack the winners, who are bound to be </p><p>sickeningly talented and horribly wealthy at a frighteningly young age, </p><p>in a way which makes us here at Diary very, very angry indeed. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Droga, himself a winner of the YoungGuns in the past, has been confirmed </p><p>as chairman of the judges for the Australia-based awards. That means </p><p>that the poor love will have to be flown from cold, smelly London to </p><p>glorious Sydney for the judging, which rather makes Diary question why </p><p>he's so angry. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Other ads to promote the awards, also distributed by email, feature </p><p>fellow famous creatives Steve Henry, John Hegarty and Warren Brown, also </p><p>bemoaning their age by engaging in similarly inappropriate acts. You can </p><p>see them on the internet at </p><p>youngguns2001.com/creative/missing-links/LegendsOfAdvertising. </p><p><BR><BR> </p>

by | 08/17/2001