Deutsch LA has hired Colin Drummond as partner and chief strategy officer. He will serve as chief strategist across all of Deutsch LA’s accounts, including Taco Bell, Volkswagen, Target, Dr Pepper and Snapple Group, and will oversee the agency’s planning and strategy group.
Drummond joins Deutsch LA from Ogilvy & Mather West where most recently he served as chief strategy officer. While at Ogilvy West, he oversaw strategic planning on accounts like Cisco, Beringer and Arco, and built the agency’s West Coast-led planning capabilities.
As a founding partner of Deutsch LA, current chief strategic officer, Jeffrey Blish, has been instrumental in the agency’s growth and success over the past 18 years. He will remain a partner and in his new role as executive planning director will continue to bring his deep expertise to agency clients, advising on account strategy, planning and brand-building programs. Blish will take on the added responsibility of leading large-scale agency research projects and client insights generation–a natural pairing with Deutsch LA’s strategic offering.
Prior to Ogilvy West, Drummond spent six years at Crispin Porter + Bogusky–four years as VP, associate director, cognitive and culture radar followed by two years as VP, director of cultural and business insights–running its 30-person planning department and pioneering new methods for generating insights within the agency. Drummond deployed a team of social scientists, account planners, journalists and business strategists to the benefit of clients such as Burger King, MINI, and Domino’s. Earlier in his career, he spent a cumulative 17 years at agencies such as Mullen, AKQA and Scali.
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