The old joke about asking how to get to Carnegie Hall and being told “practice!” is getting a rewrite by a music licensing company, which is asking how to get to Madison Avenue and answering in an unusual way.
The New York Times (full article)
Found this on The Hollywood Reporter and thought I would repost it here.
If you aren’t one of the 9 million people who have already seen it, give it a look. It’s wonderfully done. And it’s a copyright infringement. Fantastic!
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