Bicoastal Arcade Edit has hired Crissy DeSimone as executive producer in its Los Angeles office. She comes over from NO6, where she spent seven years as an executive producer, helping to open its offices in New York and L.A.
Having worked in the field for 20 years, DeSimone has assorted notable credits, including commercials for Barbie out of BBDO San Francisco, Burger King’s “Whopper Virgins” and the 2013 Super Bowl spot for Best Buy starring Amy Poehler with Crispin Porter + Bogusky, PlayStation’s “Cubs” spot for MLB12 with Deutsch, and a spot for EA’s “Star Wars: Battlefront” featuring actress Anna Kendrick as a wannabe Jedi. DeSimone’s work also spans such brands as Taco Bell, Volkswagen and Microsoft.
Originally from New York, DeSimone currently lives in Los Angeles. She studied Fine Arts at Boston University before getting her start in postproduction at Swietlik LA as a producer.
Arcade Edit is an editorial collective and partnership among managing partner Damian Stevens, EP/partner Sila Soyer and editors/partners Kim Bica, Jeff Ferruzzo, Geoff Hounsell and Paul Martinez. Arcade’s roster of talent also includes editors Dave Anderson, Kyle Brown, Jen Dean, Will Hasell, Sean Lagrange, Nick Rondeau and Greg Scruton, Brad Waskewich, and EP Nicole Visram.
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More