Word: agent
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...exhausted and dehydrated in the process. Why did he do it? Partly because of his own competitive drive, partly because his Nike contract pays him $1 million a year as a two-sport athlete but only $100,000 as a one-sport athlete. The issue is, as one player agent puts it, "Will Nike's interest always be the same as the athlete...
...Nike contract, reportedly for a guaranteed $16 million over five years, supplied Mourning and his outside agent, David Falk (whom Nike helped select), with decisive leverage in contract negotiations between Mourning and the Charlotte, North Carolina, Hornets. "The Hornets knew I really didn't have to take anything," remembers Mourning, who held out until the fourth game of the season. He finally won a $26 million contract -- more than he had hoped for. No wonder that shortly after the Hornets drafted him, Mourning answered as he did when the Sporting News asked whom he really plays for. "I work...
Behenna and Henaghan, who have been publicly charged with harassment by guards they supervised, are at the center of an investigation of the security department being conducted by General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall and former FBI Agent James A. Ring. Henaghan has denied the charges, and Behenna has refused to answer questions from The Crimson...
...incestuous, ever widening network of pushme-pullyu relationships that are the basis of Ovitz's remarkable success. Feature film "packaging," in which a talent agency assembles the cast, director and writer for a movie from among its clients, is practically an Ovitz invention -- and, again, inherently corrosive of an agent's devotion to a client. If you're a CAA director client and the agency pressures you to cast an inappropriate CAA actor client in your movie, are your interests being ideally served...
...rivals, particularly the folks at ICM, are doing their best to stoke these fears. Says Bill Block, a cocksure young agent at ICM: "This deal? It's like the Oliver North thing -- the full implications weren't brought out." Certainly, sour grapes and not simply righteous indignation plays some role: two years ago, ICM hired one of the Credit Lyonnais officials who was in charge of many of the bank's movie-industry loans during the go-go '80s, and it also happens to be making forays of its own in the ad game...