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    Industry mourns creative leader and mentor Craig Markus

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    Craig Markus
    NEW YORK --

    Craig Markus, chief creative officer at Proof Advertising, died on August 8 after several weeks in a New York hospital battling Guillain-Barré syndrome. His age was not reported.

    Markus’ creative career spanned Ogilvy as an art director, Deutsch NY as a creative director, Cramer-Krasselt NY as an executive creative director, and McCann New York. At the latter he served as an ECD as well as creative lead of that agency’s youth/young adult marketing division, TAG, which helped launch Microsoft’s Xbox.

    Over the course of his career, Markus was creative lead for global brands including Coca-Cola, Mastercard, Nike and Levi’s. He also was the founder of branding studio Rage, Grace & Partners.

    Bryan Christian, president of Austin, Tex.-based Proof, shared in a social media post, “Craig brought a joyful and passionate spirit to work each day. He was a great boss to his teams, a great co-worker to all at Proof and a great friend and mentor for me.”

    Markus and Christian reunited at Proof. They first worked together at McCann. As ECD at McCann, Markus had a hand in helping win the U.S. Army account, for which the lauded “Army Strong” campaign was created.

    Markus had degrees in communication from UCLA, and in design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. He also held an MBA from Steinbeis University’s Berlin School of Creative Leadership.

    Markus is survived by, among others, two adult sons, Dean and Luke.

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    Olivia Hussey, star of 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” dies at 73

    Saturday, December 28, 2024
    "Romeo and Juliet" movie director Franco Zeffirelli, left, actors Olivia Hussey, center, and Leonard Whiting are seen after the Parisian premiere of the film in Paris on Sept. 25, 1968. (AP Photo/Eustache Cardenas, File)

    Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," has died, her family said on social media Saturday. She was 73.

    Hussey died on Friday, "peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones," a statement posted to her Instagram account said.

    Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy after spotting her onstage in the play "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," which also starred Vanessa Redgrave.

    "Romeo and Juliet" won two Oscars and Hussey won a Golden Globe for best new actress for her part as Juliet, opposite British actor Leonard Whiting, who was 16 at the time.

    Decades later Hussey and Whiting brought a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures alleging sexual abuse, sexual harassment and fraud over nude scenes in the film.

    They alleged that they were initially told they would wear flesh-colored undergarments in a bedroom scene, but on the day of the shoot Zeffirelli told the pair they would wear only body makeup and that the camera would be positioned in a way that would not show nudity. They alleged they were filmed in the nude without their knowledge.

    The case was dismissed by a Los Angeles County judge in 2023, who found their depiction could not be considered child pornography and the pair filed their claim too late.

    Hussey was born on April 17, 1951, in Bueno Aires, Argentina, and moved to London as a child.

    She also starred as Mary, mother of Jesus, in the 1977 television series "Jesus of Nazareth," and in the 1978 adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile."

    She is survived by her husband, David Glen Eisley, her three children and a grandson.

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