Beast New York, has hired Helena Lee as its executive producer. Lee honed her skills at leading post houses Red Car and Rock Paper Scissors, and previously worked as a freelance producer for such top creative agencies as Berlin Cameron, TBWAChiatDay and Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
Additionally Beast has secured Lisa Houck as a key member of its sales team. Houck, founder and president of Salon, will work out of Beast’s L.A. offices as West Coast outside sales representative covering the Los Angeles, Austin and San Francisco regions. Her production skills were polished in the development of Method Studios’ Method Labs as she led the acclaimed visual effects group.
Beast is the editorial component of Deluxe’s award-winning global Creative Services Group, which also includes feature and commercial post specialist Company 3 and VFX house Method Studios.
Beast has offices in Santa Monica, New York, Austin, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco.
Denzel Washington, Michael J. Fox and Bono Among Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aroused a standing ovation from the crowd as she received her medal. Clinton was accompanied to the event by her husband former President Bill Clinton, daughter Chelsea Clinton and grandchildren. Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were also awarded the nation's highest civilian honor in a White House ceremony.
"For the final time as president I have the honor bestowing the Medal of Freedom, our nation's highest civilian honor, on a group of extraordinary, truly extraordinary people, who gave their sacred effort, their sacred effort, to shape the culture and the cause of America," Biden said in his opening remarks.
"Let me just say to each of you, thank you, thank you, thank you for all you've done to help this country," Biden said Saturday.
Four medals were awarded posthumously. They went to George W. Romney, who served as both a Michigan governor and secretary of housing and urban development; former Attorney General and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Kennedy is father to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for health and human services secretary. Biden said, "Bobby is one of my true political heroes. I love and I miss him dearly."
Romney is the father of former Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, one of... Read More