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    Washington Olivetto to receive 2014 Clio Lifetime Achievement Award

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    The Clio Awards has announced Brazilian creative director and WMcCann Brazil agency head Washington Olivetto as the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. The award will be presented at the 55th annual awards show on October 1 at Cipriani in New York.

    The Clio Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates outstanding creative contributions by individuals who have led their community forward and paved the way for new industry talent.

    “I’m exceptionally honored to receive the CLIO Lifetime Achievement Award, in no small part on account of distinguished names of those who received the award before me,” said Olivetto. “I hope this award shines a light on the exemplary work being done around Latin America, and particularly in Brazil, which has been a source of inspiration and the greatest, most rewarding challenge I could have asked for.”

    Olivetto is known around the world as a leading figure in the advertising industry and in Brazil as an influential cultural figure. Olivetto shaped the advertising industry, creating iconic ads for Salvation Army, Nestle and Brazilian household staple BomBril, which boasts the longest-running campaign with the same lead character. Olivetto has previously won the Clio Awards’ Grand-Prix film award in 2001, with a TV spot for Época Magazine. In 2010, Olivetto’s W/Brasil merged with McCann Erickson Worldwide’s Brazilian operations to form WMcCann, based in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. WMcCann owns the two most popular campaigns on air in Brazil, one for Bradesco, the biggest bank in Brazil, and the other for Seara, a Brazilian food company. Aside from advertising, Washington is considered one of the biggest fans and soccer experts in the country and is the creator of “Democracia Corintiana,” an ideological movement in the history of Brazilian soccer and recognized worldwide.

    “Washington Olivetto is a name synonymous with innovation in the advertising industry,” said Nicole Purcell, executive vice president, Clio Awards. “For decades, Washington’s work has been bringing Brazilian creative to the world and the most sophisticated thinking in global advertising to the Brazilian market. Defying contradiction, he’s at once a classic adman and a radical pioneer.”

    The Clio Awards established its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Olivetto will join the ranks of previous honorees such as director/cinematographer Tony Kaye (2001); Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO co-founder David Abbott (2002); former Ogilvy & Mather and WPP worldwide creative director Neil French (2003); global director media arts, TBWA Worldwide, Lee Clow (2004); BBH co-founder, Sir John Hegarty (2005); R/GA co-founder and chairman, Bob Greenberg (2006); Saatchi & Saatchi worldwide creative director, Bob Isherwood (2007); partner and general creative director of AlmapBBDO, Marcello Serpa (2008); Wieden + Kennedy co-founder, Dan Wieden (2009); Goodby, Silverstein & Partners co-chairman/creative directors Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein (2010); influential director Joe Pytka (2011); executive chairman and creative director of South Asia for Ogilvy & Mather India Piyush Pandey (2012); and legendary adman George Lois (2013).

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    Actor Anthony Head, known for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” dies at 72

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    Anthony Head arrives for the European premiere of 'The Iron Lady' on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short, File)

    Anthony Head, the suave, smooth-voiced British actor known for roles in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Ted Lasso," has died, his family said Friday. He was 72.

    Head's daughters, actors Emily and Daisy Head, told the Press Association news agency that the actor passed away due to complications from pneumonia.

    The stage and TV performer became well known to British audiences in the 1980s as one half of a will-they, won't-they romantic couple in a series of ads for Nescafe Gold Blend instant coffee. The ads were later re-shot for a U.S. audience for Taster's Choice.

    Head achieved wider fame as librarian Rupert Giles, mentor to the title character in the cult-favorite supernatural series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," which ran from 1997 to 2003.

    He most recently played Rupert Mannion, the villainous ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham's character Rebecca, in "Ted Lasso."

    "Our grief is far greater than the hole he has left behind, but we know his legacy will live on, in the shows he was a part of, and in the audiences that love them," his daughters said. "How lucky we are to know we are able to watch him doing what he loved, even when he is no longer with us."

    Head was born in London on Feb. 20, 1954 to Seafield Head, a documentary filmmaker, and Helen Shingler, an actor. His older brother, Murray, is also an actor.

    Other notable roles included playing Geoffrey Howe, the deputy to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, played by Meryl Streep, in the Oscar-winning "The Iron Lady."

    Head portrayed a prime minister himself in the sketch comedy show "Little Britain," as well as King Uther Pendragon, the father of Prince Arthur, in the "Merlin" TV series. He also appeared in "Motherland," Manchild," and "Silent Witness," along... Read More

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