Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...owner Edgar Bronfman Jr. nails down distribution deal with DreamWorks...
What does $250 million buy these days? Lots of things, but not Michael Ovitz. That wad was not enough for Seagram's CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to lure Ovitz from Creative Artists Agency, the talent shop he built into Hollywood's prime power brokerage, to become chairman of MCA, the show-biz conglomerate (movies, music, TV shows, theme parks) that Seagram's purchased last week. Thus ended the hottest nonevent since Comet Kohoutek. Except that this one had bigger stars ready to collide. And the meteor showers may be felt for years...
Michael Ovitz isn't going anywhere. Negotiations for the Creative Artists Agency chairman to head MCA collapsed as Seagram completed its $5.7 billion purchase of 80% of the entertainment giant. Disputes between Ovitz and Seagram ceo Edgar Bronfman Jr. over executive autonomy and a compensation package worth more than $200 million are speculated to have caused the impasse...
...JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR
...case, the page presents, side by side, two quite dissimilar handwriting samples: one taken from a note that police say Davis wrote in 1979, the other recently penned by Davis. In response, more than 1,000 people have so far sent E-mail to Illinois Governor Jim Edgar demanding clemency for Davis...