Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ovitz, who shares power with CAA co-founders Ron Meyer, 44, and Bill Haber, 46, has shown an uncanny touch for putting stories and stars together. The agency had a hand in assembling the elements of four current box-office hits: Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, Twins and Scrooged. Among its TV successes are Golden Girls and Beauty and the Beast. Says Barry Diller, chief executive of Fox Inc.: "CAA represents a lot of good people, and is very aggressive in how they link them to each other. It's all about selling, and they're very good...
...spotlight, it seems they have a fallback position: they want a piece of the profitable action that others may generate from their crimes. The FBI has learned that East Coast racketeers are demanding a cut of the earnings from a proposed film about the life of Meyer Lansky, the Mafia's legendary financial genius who died...
...company to keep lowering its toll charges. AT&T still commands 70% of the $50 billion long-distance market, but has grown increasingly price conscious in its rivalry with MCI and Sprint. Even so, the lateness of the move has shaken some investors' confidence in Ma Bell. Says James Meyer, a telecommunications analyst with the Philadelphia investment firm Janney Montgomery Scott: "My question is, Is this it? Or will we have to go through this again...
...elusive," Meyer said of the New England quarterback. "Coming down to the end, I'll give them credit for going for the touchdown. We just didn't want to let it happen...
...tried to get more pressure on Doug. They came down the field, but we got tremendous defensive coverage by our people inside the 10," Meyer said...