Infusion Of Talent At Amber; Extra Juice
Amber Music has added composers Leo Sidran and Phil Mossman. Sidran produced the Oscar-winning song “Al Otro Lado Del Rio” from The Motorcycle Diaries. Mossman is a member of the group LCD Soundsystem. Both will be based in the New York office of Amber, which also maintains operations in London and Los Angeles….Audio post mixer Sonia Castro has joined Juice, the Santa Monica shop headed by owner/chief audio architect Alex Alba. Castro comes over from Santa Monica-based 48 Windows and prior to that was with AudioBanks, Santa Monica. She has mixed for assorted clients, including regional work for BMW, and campaigns for Jack in the Box and Carl’s Jr. Castro has mixed for the two latter advertisers over the past decade-plus….Bob Giammarco of audioEngine, New York and Phoenix, provided sound design and audio post mixing for a black-and-white PSA for the Men’s Anti-violence Network (an initiative of the Arizona Foundation for Women), directed and shot by Sergio Arguello of Suns Productions, Phoenix, via agency Cramer-Krasselt, Phoenix. In the spot, Phoenix Suns’ forward Brian Grant discusses the difference between the roughness encountered in a basketball game and that in a domestic violence situation. “A lot happens in a game,” says Grant as he practices shooting hoops, his movements echoing in an empty court. “It’s intense.” He walks right up to the camera and smacks it with the palm of his hand. The camera shakes and blurs, as we hear the thunderous sound of impending danger. When a player does it during a game, he gets a technical foul. “But when an abuser does it, they’re just getting started,” relates Grant. The PSA concludes with contact info for the Men’s Anti-violence network, a group of more than 100 business and community leaders dedicated to stopping–and increasing public awareness of–domestic violence…..Creative director/partner Dave Hodge of Finger Music, Venice, Calif.–who’s active in spots (i.e., Coca-Cola, Dodge)–is slated to play several tour dates in California, Texas, Washington and Oregon with indie rock band Broken Social Scene. This marks the second Broken Social Scene outing for Hodge, who hit the road with the band this past summer, appearing at European summer festivals, as well as in New York. Hodge, who plays trombone, will also be performing with Broken Social Scene’s supporting act, recording artist Feist, whose new album, Let It Die, is in stores now.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More