Word: ovitz
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...daughter, whom she had once put up for adoption. He helped dig up dirt on one of the families accusing Michael Jackson of molestation. He has done work for Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal, James Woods, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, former super-agent Mike Ovitz and dozens of others. His nickname is the "sin eater...
...Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch discovered a dead fish with a red rose in its mouth and a sign reading "Stop" on the cracked windshield of her Audi. At the time, she was writing about Steven Seagal and Mike Ovitz, both clients of Pellicano. The trail eventually led to his office, where FBI agents discovered plastic explosives, grenades, pistols and about $200,000 in cash in Pellicano's safe. He pleaded guilty to weapons charges and went to prison...
...original Hollywood superagents. Long before Mike Ovitz ruled, the gentler, more charming Freddie Fields succeeded in producing (American Gigolo, Glory) and in founding First Artists, one of the first talent-owned production companies. But his claim to fame was establishing CMA (Creative Management Associates) with David Begelman. Now part of powerhouse agency ICM, CMA was home to such A-listers of the 1960s and '70s as Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Woody Allen, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Fields...
...World's Most Powerful Man Oh, maybe it's the President of the U.S., but even Bill Clinton takes orders from supermogul Michael Ovitz, whose Creative Artists Agency represents the major Hollywood talent, creates new Coke ads, advises studio chiefs -- and arranges the guest list for Clinton's star-struck visits to Hollywood...
...also unlikely Ovitz will take the suggestion made by James Glassman, in another Post column, that he divert his severance to charity. If he did, he would be breaking the first rule of major executives: get paid no matter what...