Word: caa
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...hands on the levers of the starmaking machinery. One of the most successful agents in show business and a part owner of the powerful Creative Artists Agency, Jay represented Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman, David Letterman and other major names. He had been the protege of CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz and was already being touted, at 30, as a future studio head. He dated models and actresses, drove a Ferrari, lived in a Hollywood Hills mansion stocked with Warhols, Stellas and Picassos. Before becoming addicted to cocaine, he had been living the kind of life many...
...something very simple in common: we had both done too much. We hadn't known when to stop. We had become addicts. We had gone through dark seasons at the end of which someone--in his case his partners at CAA and in mine my wife--had given us an ultimatum: get clean or get out. And we ended up at this treatment center outside Portland...
...wasn't gifted with vast self-knowledge. He had become successful so very young--dropping out of the University of Southern California to become an intern at CAA while still a teenager, becoming a full agent by the time he was 21 and a millionaire by his mid-20s--that he never had a chance to figure out who he was, beneath all the trappings of worldly success. He spoke eagerly, with a midrange, clipped California accent, his voice filling the room with vague blandishments about how eager he was to stay sober and how grateful...
...Tribe claimed the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) championship for the 14th time in a row, and have won 73 consecutive league matches...
William and Mary Senior Tari Ann Toro and junior Carolijn van Rossum, are the No. 40 and No. 48 players in the country, respectively. Toro is also the CAA Player of Year and sports a singles record of 35-10. Van Rossum is 29-18 in singles play...