Word: ovitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days it's easier to spot Waldo than Ovitz. He's been out of strobe range for the paparazzi, who haven't seen him at a single Hollywood event. But his movements are tracked with interest by the entertainment community, whose denizens wonder whether the former superagent will be able to reinvent himself and return to his old glory...
...ever find him," says a prominent industry figure. "He has this pager number and he calls right back, but you never know where he is." Late last week his office said he was "traveling." Entertainment-industry analyst Hal Vogel also has no idea what Ovitz is doing. "It's amazing," he says. "The most powerful man in Hollywood has disappeared...
Well, not quite. Ovitz spent Christmas hopping from his new yacht, The Illusion, in the Bahamas to Auldbrass, Lethal Weapon producer Joel Silver's estate in South Carolina. From there he headed to Aspen, Colorado. He returned to Los Angeles to attend the funeral of Phil Weltman, his mentor at the William Morris Agency...
...Ovitz has also been spotted at repasts with the rich. In Los Angeles he lunched at Italian trattoria Locanda Veneta with investment adviser Richard Salomon of Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell, and turned up at dinner at the very chic Nobu in New York City with real estate developer Jerry Speyer and dealmaker Leon Black of Apollo Advisors. As he casts about for a new career, he will serve as a patron of the arts in Manhattan, chairing a Municipal Art Society awards dinner in March and a gala for PEN, a writers' group, in April...
...Disney, Ovitz's expensively renovated offices stand empty. His Gulfstream III jet, which he sold to the company when he went to work there, is now happily occupied by ABC president Bob Iger. Apparently Ovitz has replaced it with a more modest Westwind...