Omelet, an L.A.-based branding, marketing and entertainment company, has added Katrin Tenhaaf and Josie Brown to its sr. leadership team. Tenhaaf, who most recently served as global group account director at TBWAChiatDay, is now partner and head of client services. Meanwhile Brown has been promoted from sr. account director to partner and head of business development at Omelet.
Tenhaaf has more than 15 years of account and client leadership expertise at global agencies, including Ogilvy & Mather London and Amsterdam, BBDO, 180LA and TBWAChiatDay. Her work has spanned 60-plus countries and includes brands like Adidas, Dove, Heineken, ING, Johnnie Walker, Sony and Visa. At Omelet, Tenhaaf provides account leadership for clients such as Microsoft, AT&T and Coca-Cola, driving the agency’s organic growth and expansion. Since joining, Tenhaaf has led several successful client projects, including Microsoft’s Work Wonders Project—a documentary-style series that features Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun and School in the Cloud’s Sugata Mitra on a collaborative journey to revolutionize education.
Brown has produced work in more than 30 markets, with brands including L’Oreal Paris, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Colgate, Sony Ericsson, Adidas, T-Mobile, and Revlon. As Omelet’s head of business development, Brown is now responsible for growing the company’s client roster.
Since joining, Brown has worked on Moët & Chandon’s first global spot which was created in conjunction with director Samuel Bayer, AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign which encourages teens to stop texting and driving, and Betsy’s Best, a new line of gourmet and all-natural nut and seed butters that mark the company’s first co-owned brand, developed under Omelet Brands.
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