Word: caa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part in brokering Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures in 1989 and shepherded Matsushita into its purchase of MCA the following year--deals that soured for the buyers. In 1994 he engaged in highly publicized negotiations to take the top job at MCA. Once those talks collapsed, returning to CAA became impossible, and Disney opened the door...
...very day that former Creative Artists Agency shogun Michael Ovitz was falling on his ears at Disney, his old outfit was literally rolling out the red carpet for a key element of its strategy to rule tomorrow's Tinseltown. Last Thursday marked the unveiling of the CAA/Intel Media Lab, CAA's bid for a thick slice of the growing PC-software pie and the strongest indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president...
Shakespeare, it turns out, doesn't need CAA. As if to say, "So there, Jane Austen!", the Bard is back in maximum force. There are two films based on Romeo and Juliet: one using the text but transplanted to a Miami-esque beach town; the other, Love Is All There Is, set in the Bronx and retold by writer-directors Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Trevor Nunn has a Twelfth Night starring Helena Bonham Carter and Nigel Hawthorne. Richard III, recently modded up by Ian McKellen, gets the Al Pacino treatment in Looking for Richard...
...rehab clinic for drug abuse since last fall; he was due to return to work this week following a lengthy recovery. Moloney's absence has left power concentrated in the hands of agency president Richard Lovett, 35. A go-getter nicknamed L'Ovitz, Lovett has worked at CAA for more than a decade, handling Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, Nicolas Cage and other A-listers. The perception is that Lovett is performing well, if not exactly thriving...
Fortunately for CAA, the post-Ovitz era has seen its rivals in a state of flux too. Just two weeks ago, the 10% world was abuzz when a self-promoting, self-styled "agent warrior" named Gavin Polone was fired by the United Talent Agency after accusations of "inappropriate" behavior toward a female colleague, then given a seven-figure settlement and an apology by his superiors. She, in turn, took her own revenge: she quit and went over to CAA...