Euro RSCG Chicago has hired Lisa Leone as a creative director, a role which will see her head the agency's business with packaging company Reynolds Group and liquor brands Effen, Hornitos, Pucker and Sauza, and contribute to other agency clients and new business efforts. She joins Euro RSCG after more than five years of freelance experience with several agencies, including DDB, Y&R, Campbell Mithun, Grey, Nitro, Downtown Partners and Leo Burnett. As a consultant on creative, planning and management for new business pitches, Leone's brand experience includes Citibank, Sears, Wrigley, Finlandia, Miller Genuine Draft, Northwestern Mutual, Northern Trust and Walgreens. Previously Leone served as VP/creative director with BBDO Chicago. Also coming aboard Euro RSCG Chicago is Elena Robinson who's been named the shop's first director of integrated production. Her background includes having overseen day-to-day production at Liquid Thread and IP Pixel, for both of which she served as director of production and executive producer. Robinson has twice before overseen client work with Euro RSCG, first as a senior producer, then as a senior interactive producer…..Steven Gray has been promoted to creative director at mixed media house Radar Studios, acting as point person on animation and design projects, both for clients and for the company's live-action directors. Since joining Radar in 2006, he has worked on every major animation job that's come through the studio, including recent campaigns for Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab, as well as multiple spots for NASCAR and McDonald's. Also moving up the ranks at Radar is 3D artist Mark Angres, who will now head up the 3D department…
Sheriff Reports Preliminary Autopsy Results On Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa
Preliminary autopsy results didn't determine how Oscar-winner Gene Hackman and his wife died at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but did rule out that they were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, the sheriff leading the investigation said Friday.
The condition of the bodies found Wednesday indicated the deaths occurred at least several days earlier and there was no sign of foul play.
At a news conference, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said the initial examination by the medical examiner showed no sign of carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas produced from kitchen appliances and other fuel-burning items. When it collects in poorly ventilated homes, it can be fatal.
Mendoza also said an examination of the 95-year-old Hackman's pacemaker showed it stopped working on Feb. 17, which means he may have died nine days earlier.
Hackman's body was found in an entryway. The body of his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, was in a bathroom. She was on her side and a space heater was near her head. Investigators said the heater likely was pulled down when she fell. There also was an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on a countertop.
Whether the pills or other drugs were a factor won't be known until toxicology tests are completed in the coming weeks.
Dr. Philip Keen, the retired chief medical examiner in Maricopa County, Arizona, said it would be unlikely for a person who tests negative for carbon monoxide initially to later be found to have been poisoned by it.
He also said the moment when a pacemaker stops working could mark the point when a person dies, but not always.
"If your heart required a pacemaker, there would certainly be an interruption at that point — and it might be the hallmark of when... Read More