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Winner of FACTORY GIRL Poster Design Contest Announced
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- After receiving thousands of
outstanding entries from across the country, The Weinstein Company is
pleased to announce that Dimitri LaBarge, from Nashville, Tennessee, is the
winner of the contest to create the best movie poster for the film FACTORY
GIRL. Dimitri will have his poster prominently displayed at his hometown
theater Regal Green Hills 16 in Nashville, a private screening of FACTORY
GIRL for him and 25 of his friends, a full-size print of their poster
autographed by the cast, which includes Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce and
Hayden Christensen, and a promotion for the poster on the film's official
website,
http://www.factorygirlmovie.net. Currently in theaters, FACTORY GIRL is a
Weinstein Company presentation being released in the U.S. by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM).
To enter, contestants simply had to log onto
http://www.factorygirlmovie.net
and download the Contest Package which provided them with images from the
film, different title treatments, a billing block with logos, a copy of the
official FACTORY GIRL poster (for some creative inspiration), a
SampleHowTo.pdf which gave an overview of how we made the official poster,
Treatment Ideas which gave different ideas of how to treat an image, and
contest rules and directions to build their poster.
FACTORY GIRL imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s
'it girl' Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the
glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. Sedgwick
appeared to be the quintessential American princess, with her blue blood,
her trust fund and her Harvard education, not to mention her ethereal
beauty and vivacious charisma. But she was also a lost and fragile little
girl; and when she met up with counter-culture anti-hero Andy Warhol,
everything changed. Suddenly, Edie found herself at the center of a Pop Art
universe bursting with sex, drugs, style and rock 'n' roll -- and a mad
rush for fame and fabulousness that was destined to spin out of control.
Arriving into the chaos of mid-60s New York, Edie (Sienna Miller) is
taken under the wing of the famously deadpan artist Andy Warhol (Guy
Pearce) who sees in her untamed vulnerability the makings of an
irresistible muse. Warhol invites Edie into the wild world of The Factory,
a former downtown hat factory he has transformed into a bohemian paradise.
Here, a rag-tag mix of musicians, poets, artists, actors and misfits gather
to create avant-garde movies during the day and throw glam parties all
night long. Edie quickly ascends to become the star of Warhol's movies, an
idol at The Factory and a media darling. She is on top of the world when
she falls in love with a larger-than-life rock star (Hayden Christensen),
the man known as "the voice of a generation." But when Edie becomes caught
between Warhol's world of sexy surfaces and her new love, she winds up
rejected by both --
- and
once again, set adrift in the
modern world.
CHICAGO, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon announces that John
Barrett has joined its Southern California executive team as resident
managing director for Los Angeles.
(Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO )
Barrett, 47, was formerly managing director of Marsh, Los Angeles where
he built a strong reputation for being a leader in sales and relationship
development, financial management, service management, and staff and
professional development. During his 21-year tenure he held a number of
senior retail brokerage positions, most recently serving as Managing
Director and Office Head of Marsh, Los Angeles. In that role, he led a team
of more than 400 employees and oversaw the growth operations in the greater
Los Angeles area.
Sam Cargill, formerly Los Angeles resident managing director, will now
serve in a dual role as chairman of Aon Southern California and Aon Global
Sales Leader - Americas. In this new capacity, Cargill will focus on
developing new business and building stronger client relationships as well
as joining John Barrett in leading Aon Southern California.
"John is a leader who has a history of delivering exceptional business
results," said Steve McGill, Aon Risk Services chief executive officer. "He
has a unique ability to focus on the needs of clients as wells as the needs
of staff."
Ted Devine, Aon executive vice president and chief operating officer
said, "John understands that focusing on recruiting, developing and
retaining unmatched talent is the key to driving organization productivity.
I have no doubt that that same strategic emphasis will lead to great
results in our southern California region."
Barrett joined Marsh in 1986 as a casualty account executive handling
large risk management accounts. In 2001, Barrett was named Client Executive
Practice Leader (CEPL), where he oversaw sales and relationship
development, financial management, service management, and staff and
professional development.
Four years later, he assumed the role of CEPL for Marsh's southwest
zone, comprised of five offices in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada.
Barrett is currently the chairman of the board of directors for the Los
Angeles March of Dimes, and is a former board member of the Los Angeles
Chapter of the Boy Scouts of America, Insurance Brokers Association of the
West, and Pepperdine University.
Barrett holds a B.S. in marketing from Santa Clara University and an
M.B.A. from Pepperdine.
About Aon
Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) (
http://www.aon.com ) is a leading
provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage,
human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance
underwriting. There are 43,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in
more than 120 countries. Backed by broad resources, industry knowledge and
technical expertise, Aon professionals help a wide range of clients develop
effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions.
For more information contact:
Al Orendorff
312.381.3153
[email protected]
http://www.aon.com/newsroom
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results, or states our intentions, beliefs and expectations or predictions
for the future which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined
in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from either historical
or anticipated results depending on a variety of factors. Potential factors
that could impact results include: general economic conditions in different
countries in which we do business around the world, changes in global
equity and fixed income markets that could affect the return on invested
assets, fluctuations in exchange and interest rates that could influence
revenue and expense, rating agency actions that could affect our ability to
borrow funds, funding of our various pension plans, changes in the
competitive environment, our ability to implement restructuring initiatives
and other initiatives intended to yield cost savings, our ability to
execute the stock repurchase program, our ability to obtain regulatory or
legislative changes to permit continuous sales of our supplemental Medicare
health product, changes in commercial property and casualty markets and
commercial premium rates that could impact revenues, changes in revenues
and earnings due to the elimination of contingent commissions, other
uncertainties surrounding a new compensation model, the impact of
investigations brought by state attorneys general, state insurance
regulators, federal prosecutors, and federal regulators, the impact of
class actions and individual lawsuits including client class actions,
securities class actions, derivative actions, ERISA class actions, the
impact of the analysis of practices relating to stock options, the cost of
resolution of other contingent liabilities and loss contingencies, and the
difference in ultimate paid claims in our underwriting companies from
actuarial estimates. Further information concerning the Company and its
business, including factors that potentially could materially affect the
Company's financial results, is contained in the Company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
SOURCE Aon Corporation
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