Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ERASER (June 21). All action, no talk, the way a Schwarzenegger trailer should be. In this reverse twist on Total Recall--he wipes out your real past instead of remembering a fake one--Arnie saves nice people and blows stuff up. Worth seeing, if only to find out if Hollywood has finally decided to make Vanessa Williams a movie star...
Whoopi and Winona, Madonna and Barbra, Chevy and Sly. Aside from having idiosyncratic first names, these stars all share something else: over the past seven months, they've walked away from the Creative Artists Agency, once the supreme force in Hollywood dealmaking. But that was then--then being the 1980s to the mid-'90s. Since last fall, more than two dozen clients have ankled, as the trade papers would put it, joined just last week by Liam Neeson and Ben Stiller...
...departures last year of the agency's shrewd, ruthless chairman, Michael Ovitz, and its charismatic president, Ron Meyer. Both men left for studio jobs--Ovitz to Disney, Meyer to MCA. They took with them the agency's aura of invincibility and its ability to inspire fear in the Hollywood shark pool. Rivals, long resentful of the agency's No. 1 status, are smelling blood in the water...
...boulevards in Beverly Hills, CAA's forbidding I.M. Pei-designed headquarters stands as a Zen fortress guarding entry to the city's sparkling business district. For years the building has been show-biz ground zero, a hot 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...
...before anyone files this article under obituary, it should be noted that CAA still represents most of Hollywood's hardest-working filmmakers, including seriously surnamed stars Cruise, Hanks, De Niro, DeVito and Pacino. And the recent turmoil hasn't kept the agency from signing talent like Anthony Hopkins, Nick Nolte and hot newcomer Matthew McConaughey (the upcoming A Time to Kill) while forging multimedia ties with Intel and the creators of an innovative Internet Website known as The Spot...