Avid (Nasdaq: AVID), a provider of digital media technologies for media organizations and independent professionals, has appointed Paula E. Boggs to its board of directors. Boggs’ many years of corporate leadership experience, combined with her background as a musician experienced with Avid products, will provide a unique perspective as the company continues to deliver on Avid Everywhere.
Boggs has held a variety of professional and community leadership roles for over 25 years. A former member of the executive team at Starbucks Coffee Company, she led the global law department of Starbucks for 10 years. Before joining Starbucks, Boggs was VP of legal for products, operations and information technology, and senior deputy general counsel at Dell Computer Corporation. She was previously a partner with the law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis.
Since 2013, Boggs has been a member of the President’s Committee for the Arts and the Humanities, and was previously a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions. She is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and a songwriter and lead vocalist for the Paula Boggs Band. She has also served as an officer in the U.S. Army.
“Avid welcomes Paula as our newest board member and appreciates her willingness to serve,” said Avid chairman, president, and CEO Louis Hernandez, Jr. “Paula’s extensive corporate leadership experience, combined with her artistic and musical background, will give the company a unique perspective and help guide us during our ongoing transformation as we continue to deliver on Avid Everywhere.”
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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