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Baker, of course, is not operating with a completely free hand. George Bush says he "loves the foreign policy aspects" of his job, and Bush, obviously, is the boss. But the two men have a unique relationship. "They are as close to being equals as any President and a subordinate have ever been," says writer Victor Gold, who has been close to both of them for two decades. Baker may not be Deputy President or Prime Minister, but at the very least, he is first among equals...
...protege," says Baker. "But then you have to consider that I took off a lot of time and lost a lot of income working for him in the '80 campaign. That kind of squared the circle. And remember, when I got the chief of staff job with Reagan, that wasn't ((Bush's)) doing...
...job of answering the approximately 1,000 pieces of mail that TIME receives every week falls to Amy Musher, chief of the letters department, and her staff of nine. Reader reaction ranges from the whimsical (a man from Fairport, N.Y., responded to a story on how disposable packaging contributes to air pollution by writing directly on a McDonald's container) to the intensely curious (a subscriber asked about the origin of a quilt that appeared in a photograph of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's tent). Readers have even asked us to track down people in TIME pictures who resemble long...
While a premed student at UCLA, Ovitz worked part time at Universal Studios. After graduating in 1968, he landed a job in the mail room at the William Morris agency. Within a year, he was promoted to agent. Six years later, he and four other young colleagues quit to form CAA with only a $21,000 bank loan. Says Ovitz: "Of course I was scared. I was barely 27 at the time. We didn't take a paycheck for almost two years. Our wives took turns serving as secretaries. In the early years, I couldn't get a good table...
...clout has become excessive. Says a top studio executive: "CAA packages are a prefab, take-it-or-leave-it way of making movies. Some pictures get made that maybe shouldn't be made." Ovitz has had his share of feuds, most notably with David Puttnam, who lost his job as chairman of Columbia Pictures last year after alienating much of the Hollywood establishment. Insiders say the abrasive Puttnam's most expensive gaffe may have been his brusque treatment of Ovitz and CAA client Bill Murray. Recalling a spat with Ovitz, agent Bernie Brillstein explains, "I didn't pander ((to Ovitz...