Word: pullyu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with CAA is not the tough talk, but the incestuous, ever widening network of pushme-pullyu relationships that are the basis of Ovitz's remarkable success. Feature film "packaging," in which a talent agency assembles the cast, director and writer for a movie from among its clients, is practically an Ovitz invention -- and, again, inherently corrosive of an agent's devotion to a client. If you're a CAA director client and the agency pressures you to cast an inappropriate CAA actor client in your movie, are your interests being ideally served...