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...zone where Ovitz--routinely referred to as "the most powerful man in Hollywood"--built up the town's most imposing list of talent. His masterful, softly menacing style, along with his courtship of nontraditional clients like Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais, transformed the old stereotype of the talent agent as a hustling flesh peddler into that of a sleek ninja visionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE 10% DISSOLUTION | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...same time, however, several key agents have followed Ovitz and Meyer out the door, and a revamped management team has admittedly experienced some rocky times. One major faux pas occurred in March, when a top agent made a deal for Val Kilmer to star in The Saint, even though its filming schedule conflicted with the actor's commitment to reprise his caped-crusader role in the upcoming Batman and Robin--prompting Batman director and longtime CAA client Joel Schumacher to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE 10% DISSOLUTION | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...successful black pop novelist, she is, as they say, looking good, an attractive woman of about 5 ft. 7 in., taking her ease in an oversize white sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers after a morning photo shoot. For the moment, turbulence is below the surface, but as McMillan's longtime agent Molly Friedrich says, "You don't meet Terry, you experience Terry. She's truly a force of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOME GROOVE | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...headed the CIA from 1973 to 1976 under Presidents Nixon and Ford. "He was important as a CIA director because he allowed a lot of the CIA's dirty tricks of the 60's and 70's to be revealed ," says TIME's Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular inside the agency because of that." Dismissed by President Ford because the White House believed he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators, Colby has become a staunch arms control activist, working for many liberal causes and organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former CIA Chief's Body Found | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

According to Pratt, the family's agent Lane Zachary on Monday plans to begin circulating copies of manuscripts to bidders interested in the publishing and movie rights. There will be an auction to determine the eventual winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Librarian Clarifies Alcott Book Status | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

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