Word: ovitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at the three of us and think, this has got to be the dream team," Katzenberg said at a press conference that attracted dozens of journalists and industry power brokers, including His Most Powerfulness, Michael Ovitz. "Certainly it's my dream team...
...Three weeks ago, the Walt Disney Co., whose chairman, Michael Eisner, had until recently seemed to disdain two-way TV, agreed to team up with Ameritech, BellSouth and Southwestern Bell to develop and distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers. Not to be outdone, Hollywood dealmeister Michael Ovitz, who heads the powerful Creative Artists Agency, has reportedly been meeting with nynex, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis to discuss the creation of a company of their own that would make and distribute films...
Enter Ronald Perelman, 51, the multibillionaire Revlon chief. A friend of such Hollywood power brokers as Barry Diller and Michael Ovitz, Perelman began to build an entertainment empire in 1989 when he bought New World, a small producer of movies and TV shows (Crime Story, The Wonder Years). Last year he started acquiring TV stations, first buying seven local outlets owned by then bankrupt SCI Television and later picking up eight more from two other station groups, in deals that are in various states of completion...
...sudden storm of rumors that Seagram's president, Edgar Bronfman Jr., had finally decided to go for an outright takeover. Rumors endowed Bronfman with a long string of potential allies (several phone companies, the cable-TV firm Tele-Communications Inc. and such Hollywood powers as superagent Michael Ovitz and QVC chief Barry Diller) and even set a potential price: $55 for each of the 322 million Time Warner shares that Seagram does not already own. One story had Bronfman taking time at his wedding reception this year to huddle with Ovitz and Diller about takeover strategies...
Similar contemporary fantasies abound, although Mike Ovitz does tend to replace E.B. White in these confections...