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October 12, 2012
Mel Brooks to receive AFI life achievement honorBy Christy Lemire, Movie Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’ll be springtime for Mel Brooks when the American Film Institute presents him with its highest honor, the Life Achievement Award.
The writer and director of comedy classics including “The Producers,” ”Blazing Saddles” and ”Young Frankenstein” will receive the award at a gala tribute next June, AFI announced Friday.
The 86-year-old Brooks is the 41st recipient of the honor, which has gone to Hollywood legends including Orson Welles, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and Morgan Freeman. He’s one of only 14 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
The AFI ceremony will air in late June on TNT and Turner Classic Movies.
M&C Saatchi Group has appointed Stevie Archer as regional chief creative officer, North America.
Archer has served as CCO of M&C Saatchi SSK since December 2023 and has led groundbreaking work in the region for clients like JPMorganChase, Shipt, Visit Iceland, and Smartsheet. In the newly created role, Archer will oversee creative integration of all North America-based agencies. She will work with U.S. regional leaders to leverage each agency’s specialized talent to build and deploy the most creative solutions to businesses’ thorniest challenges.
“This appointment demonstrates the continued momentum and expansion of M&C Saatchi in North America as we integrate the diverse capabilities of all our agencies,” said Rob Doubal, joint global CCO of M&C Saatchi Group.
“Stevie is among the most gifted and widely respected creative leaders in our industry today. Her deep understanding of culture and her instinct for strategic creative thinking will supercharge the work we do for clients across all our North American agencies--looking forward to creating new, different, and interesting shaped things,” said Laurence (Lolly) Thomson, joint global CCO of M&C Saatchi Group.
“Throughout my career, I have led businesses to embrace new ways of working, break through in fast-changing cultural environments, and build teams that can grow and adapt to real-time changes in the marketplace,” said M&C Saatchi Group North America CEO Nadja Bellan-White. “As M&C Saatchi prepares to really put a stake in the ground in the U.S., I look forward to partnering with Stevie to make us ‘The Creative Network’ of choice.”
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