Lisa Schreiber Naber of Boardalicious has joined the LAIR family, handling West Coast and Texas representation. This comes at a pivotal time as LAIR continues to refine its roster of multimedia talents alongside the development of its sibling post company, Lion’s Den, represented by newly appointed Lori Youmans of Match Maker Media. Boardalicious will be working closely with LAIR’s VP of business development Kelly Carson who will continue to rep on the East Coast and in the Midwest….
Creative marketing agency Compadre has brought Ryan D’Arcy aboard as director of client partnerships. D’Arcy is a hands-on accounts specialist who has partnered with clients as varied as Hot Wheels and Bloomin’ Brands while holding tenure at RAPP. More recently, he was at Liquid+Arcade, where he collaborated on video game campaigns with Capcom, Activision Blizzard, and Square Enix, as well as a variety of mobile and indie game studios. His portfolio includes multiple award-winning campaigns for such popular titles as Overwatch, Final Fantasy, Elden Ring, and Marvel’s Avengers…..
Review: Writer-Director Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like — with only movie-star beauty remaining.
How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life?
That's a question – well, a launching point, really — for Edward, protagonist of Aaron Schimberg's fascinating, genre-bending, undeniably provocative and occasionally frustrating "A Different Man," featuring a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
The very title is open to multiple interpretations. Who (and what) is "different"? The original Edward, who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes bulging tumors on his face? Or the man he becomes when he's able to slip out of that skin? And is he "different" to others, or to himself?
When we meet Edward, a struggling actor in New York (Stan, in elaborate makeup), he's filming some sort of commercial. We soon learn it's an instructional video on how to behave around colleagues with deformities. But even there, the director stops him, offering changes. "Wouldn't want to scare anyone," he says.
On Edward's way home on the subway, people stare. Back at his small apartment building, he meets a young woman in the hallway, in the midst of moving to the flat next door. She winces visibly when she first sees him, as virtually everyone does.
But later, Ingrid (Reinsve) tries to make it up to him, coming over to chat. She is charming and forthright, and tells Edward she's a budding playwright.
Edward goes for a medical checkup and learns that one of his tumors is slowly progressing over the eye. But he's also told of an experimental trial he could join. With the possibility — maybe — of a cure.
So... Read More