Word: caa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manager and raiding clients from Creative Artists Agency, the firm just a mile away that he co-founded 23 years ago. Last week, after Robin Williams signed on with Ovitz's new Artists Management Group, seven other actors and directors were told by the Young Turks running CAA to make a choice: Ovitz...
...Hollywood, agents and managers live in a symbiotic world, working together to cater to star egos and pocketbooks. So the seven clients with ties to both CAA and Ovitz's new AMG were appalled at their predicament. The rest of the town was enthralled. THE GREAT CAA-OVITZ WAR: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?, blared the Hollywood Reporter. Would Madonna make the leap? (Maybe, maybe not.) Would Spielberg? (Absolutely not, he said, since CAA packaged his hit Saving Private Ryan.) But of the seven who got the ultimatum, director Martin Scorsese and actors Marisa Tomei and Mimi Rogers have joined...
...former Ovitz associate expressed surprise that Ovitz would get into talent hand-holding again given that he was so sick of it when he left Creative Artists Agency in 1995. But managers, unlike agents, can act as producers, so the new Ovitz enterprise could have a broader scope than CAA. Those who doubt Ovitz has the patience to deal with finicky stars should note that he recently stepped in to help Barry Levinson cut a deal with Warner. And Ovitz?s old friends at CAA are painfully aware that he has taken ample office space on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly...
Battling frigid temperatures made more bitter by an unyielding wind and playing against the backdrop of snow piles along the sidelines, No. 17 Harvard (13-4-2, 6-1 Ivy) battled No. 25 George Mason (14-6-4, 7-1 CAA) for over 141 minutes in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Before a home crowd of nearly 800 shivering fans, the Crimson played the Patriots to a 1-1 tie through 90 minutes of regulation and 30 minutes of two overtime periods...
Bronfman is frustrated by the skepticism that greets his assurances that the dismissals are finished, but then lots of things about Universal must frustrate him. A former Universal insider says Michael Ovitz, onetime head of the powerful CAA talent agency who played a bit part in negotiating Bronfman's purchase of Universal, portrayed the company as "an easy turnaround." Ovitz also figured, wrongly, that he would be the one to do it. But instead of buying a slumbering giant, Bronfman bought a more troublesome enterprise...