Somehow Principles Survived

Though I think they could have just as easily justified it as a sort of Robin Hood deal:

The location scout knew just the spot — a sweeping spiral with marble steps, filigreed wrought-iron railwork and a mural depicting the triumph of man over adversity running up its length, culminating in gold-crowned columns of fluted mahogany.

The money would be good — somewhere approaching five figures for a day’s shoot, the scout told the owners of the location, who, as fortune would have it, could definitely use the cash these days.

There was just one catch: the location was the Midtown administrative headquarters of Daytop Village, the famed drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.

And the advertising client was a prominent purveyor of hard liquor.

But you have to like the location scout’s response:

“It was one of those situations where you call and then you realize in the middle of the sentence, ‘This thing just won’t work.'”