Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to cobble together a one-stop "virtual studio" for stars--effectively usurping the roles of agent, manager and studio chief. Round 1 is building the talent bank: Ovitz first captured two of young Hollywood's brightest stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, by bringing over their managers, Rick Yorn and his sister-in-law Julie Silverman Yorn. Ovitz then started going after CAA's list of bankable celebs. Yet he has also merged with Gotham Group--a go-go firm of top animators--begun negotiations for a start-up record company, hired an Internet whiz and snooped around...
...mentioned he'd had "about a thousand requests," including Sam and Cokie waving madly in Statuary Hall after the State of the Union, asking him to come on their show. They didn't stop until he said he would discuss only Kosovo. He's making his new campaign manager, Rick Davis, oddly happy. "Discipline is the hallmark of a great presidential candidate," says Davis. As if he expected McCain to fall off the wagon...
Anchorage, meanwhile, was learning that courtship with the U.S.O.C. was kiss-on-the-cheek stuff compared to a tango with the worldly, rouge-lipped, fire-breathing I.O.C. Rick Nerland, an advertising executive who served as the Anchorage bid's executive vice president, said last week that he was approached twice by agents who asked up to $30,000 for a bloc of I.O.C. votes. "I was disappointed that the person was intimating that that went on," he said. "We dismissed it on the spot." Also resistant were officials from Toronto and Amsterdam, who reported similar shakedowns in the 1980s...
...proceed however they chose. The Democrats were doing Clinton's bidding, they argued, and would never go along with a bipartisan deal; they were counting on a long trial to make Republicans look partisan and obsessed. The fear of a voter backlash was no reason to abandon principle. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who won with just 49% of the vote in 1994, told the conference, "I'm up in 2000. And if you read the papers, I'm an endangered Republican species. But I'm not worried about that. I'm worried what my one-year-old daughter will read...
...services outages appear to be related to the upgrades, though in different ways, according to Rick Osterberg '96, FAS's coordinator of residential computing support. Friday's problems occurred while technicians were preparing for the upgrades. The system was shut down because FAS wanted to be sure no bugs would interfere with the work...