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Women onlookers, standing on the curb or around the fringes of the crowd, held different perspectives. Lillian C. Lew Hailer '99 said she was bemused--and saddened--at the irony of Playboy's Ivy League issue...
Plenty of Hollywood's powerati are pleased that Ovitz did not realize his big dream. In 1989 an Ovitz friend divulged, "Michael would like to end up as the Lew Wasserman of his day" -- a reference to MCA's empire builder, who also began his career as an agent. Ovitz has a vast empire as well, including deals with Baby Bells, advisory roles with banks that own movie studios and a contract to produce commercials for Coca-Cola. He's poised to be the Wasserman of the 21st century. But for now he won't be the Wasserman...
...Future and Jurassic Park) and his personal debt to Sheinberg, whom he calls a mentor. So DreamWorks said some of its products could be distributed by MCA-in a deal that could be worth $1 billion over the next decade-if Matsushita would keep Sheinberg and chairman Lew Wasserman aboard. The Japanese never responded to the offer...
...terms of activity, there is more to his record than you would expect," Lew Brodsky, assistant director for Selective Service public affairs, told the Herald. "He was definitely going through processes most others of his time were...
...Matsushita the Tokyo end of management seems in order; the trouble is between Tokyo and Hollywood. MCA's Lew Wasserman and Sidney Sheinberg -- the longest-running partnership in Hollywood -- have been heading the studio, but have openly complained that their pushes to go after CBS and to open a theme park in Tokyo were ignored. The Japanese firm is especially eager to keep the team intact since director Steven Spielberg, who made close to $1 billion for MCA with Jurassic Park, recently announced that he would stop working for the company if his mentor, Sheinberg, were to leave...