Stunt Coordinator Jack Gill on The Block Radio’s The Melting Pot

Cris D’Annunzio, Justin Willman & Jack Gill

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Diane Namm on Charter Local Edition

Brad Pomerance interviews director Diane Namm and actor Molly Quinn about their new project “Finding Hope”.

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Stunt Coordinator Jack Gill Featured In The LA Times

LCO client，veteran stunt coordinator Jack Gill has been lobbying for an Academy Award category for him and his brethren for the last 20 years. Every year he gets denied. But the 56-year-old coordinator, whose credits range from the “Knight Rider” TV show in the 1980s to “Date Night” and the upcoming film “Change-Up” later this year, is hopeful that his fortunes will change this week when the Board of Governors considers his petition for a stunt coordinator category yet again.

Gill is confounded by the academy’s response and has been so since he began his quest in 1991. “All of our peers think we belong there, and the public thinks we belong there. We’re being shoved aside, and I don’t understand why.”

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Shawn Achor Featured In Self.com

LCO client Shawn Achor is featured in the article Why Your Commute Could Kill Your Relationship — and 5 Ways to Make Up for Lost Time on Self.com

“Your brain only has a limited amount of resources for experiencing the world,” explains Shawn Achor, Harvard-educated researcher and author of The Happiness Advantage.  “A stressful, frustrating commute activates the ‘jerk’ part of the brain, so your resources are used up by the time you get home, making you more impatient and worse at using the ‘thinker’ part of your brain and scanning your relationship for the good things.”

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Jack Gill In The Hollywood Reporter

LCO client Jack Gill has recently been interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter.

Gill has been leading the effort to obtain Academy recognition for the past two decades. Not surprisingly, the campaign is understood to have widespread support among stunt coordinators. In addition, some years ago, Gill obtained petition signatures from a range of Hollywood luminaries.

Stunt coordinators are the professionals who design the complex stunts seen in movies and TV shows – car chases, fight scenes, fiery explosions, underwater work, high dives and more. The stunts are then executed by stunt performers (stuntmen and -women), or occasionally by principal performers, if they’re particularly macho and the coordinator and production insurance company approve.

Gill argues that coordinators’ work is both artistic, in that it expresses a character’s personality, and technical, in that it involves intricate design and placement of performers, vehicles, objects and, often, cameras.

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Brandon Wade In Redeye

LCO client Brandon Wade is the founder of online dating site seekingarrangement.com, and WhatsYourPrice.com.

Single guys in Chicago who signed up on WhatsYourPrice.com, are shelling out an average of $173 to “buy” a date, according to Brandon Wade, CEO and founder of the online dating site. That price – above the average of $128 on the entire site – makes the Windy City among the most “generous” cities when it comes to paying for dates.

“When it comes to a measurement of love, money for some strange reason tends to come in as a replacement for how a man shows affection,” Wade said. Comparatively, a woman will show her love in caring ways by doing small things in the relationship, he said.

Top 5 most generous:

1.Denver: $221

2.Seattle: $197

3.Dallas-Fort Worth: $178

4.Chicago: $173

5.Los Angeles/Orange County: $169

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