Andrea Thomas has taken on an expanded role as client account manager for Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a solutions provider for media creatives and content owners. Leading ASG team members based at client facilities across the U.S., Canada and Europe, Thomas is tasked with building and maintaining relationships with enterprise clients, while finding ways to improve processes that build mutually successful relationships. Based in San Jose, Calif., Thomas originally joined ASG with significant talent recruitment experience, including attracting and training top technical and marketing team members for Silicon Valley tech firms and energy start-ups, and as a full-time, on-site recruiter at Apple. Meanwhile Andrew Bridgewater and Carlos Miguel Ferreira have joined ASG’s managed services division as account managers focused on building strong client relationships, providing strategic guidance, and serving as the voice of the client while deploying ASG’s cross-functional teams in resource management, finance, marketing, and technical support. Ferreira served as a videographer and editor at SIC Portuguese Television, Fox 5 WNYW and NBC Universal. He then managed production of nationally syndicated TV shows for Meredith Video Studios in NYC, and became operations manager at YouTube Space NY. Bridgewater brings to the role of ASG account manager his deep experience in studio operations, as well as a diverse background as a producer, technical director, camera operator and talent coordinator for studios like YouTube SpaceLA and MTV Networks…..
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Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More