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...local time on June 25, and the awful news raced quickly from the ER through the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Even veteran nurses reacted like many of his fans soon would. "They were hysterical. They're going, 'Michael Jackson is dead, he's dead!' They were catatonic," Irena Medavoy, wife of studio chief Mike Medavoy and a junior high school friend of Jackson's, told People. She was arriving for an appointment when the ambulance bearing Jackson pulled up. "I was there for about an hour and a half, and by the time I got out, people outside...
Summing up their strategy, Mike Medavoy, a veteran producer involved with the Weinsteins on two projects, says, "They probably learned a few lessons from their time at Disney. No. 1: it's nice to have a big banker in back of you. No. 2: this business is filled with mistakes, and margins are shrinking, so you have to be more careful than ever before. And No. 3: it's good to hedge your bets...
...film, David T. Ellwood ’75, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government and Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, hosted a question and answer forum with several members of the production team: screenwriter and director Steven Zaillian, executive producer David Thwaites, and producers Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer. Fans of actor Mark Ruffalo were disappointed, however, as he was not present in spite of advertisements to the contrary. The four speakers eagerly expressed their pride in the film, which Medavoy calls their “labor of love.” The film was never intended...
...Beatty, along with wife Annette Bening - as well as Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and others - had gathered at the palatial home of legendary producer Mike Medavoy to hear the investigative journalist speak about the current state of the Middle East and, specifically, Iran. Only recently released from an Iranian prison after serving a six-year sentence for "harming national security" and "spreading propaganda," Ganji, 47, is barnstorming the U.S. this summer to gain support for his reformist movement. He declined an invitation to the White House last month, claiming he doesn't represent a specific opposition party or faction...
CLEARED. ALLERGAN, a California-based pharmaceutical company, and dermatologist ARNOLD KLEIN, 59; of charges that Klein poisoned the wife of former movie-studio head Mike Medavoy with Allergan's Botox injections. During the five-week trial, Irena Medavoy alleged that she became ill after Klein, who was an Allergan consultant, used the company's Botox to treat her migraine headaches. A jury rejected the malpractice claim...