Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talent agency, CAA represents many of the top stars. Now you have agreed to advise Credit Lyonnais, the French bank that effectively controls MGM. Isn't it a blatant conflict of interest to advise a studio while representing movie stars, directors and writers who seek work at studios...
...Jeff Berg, who runs International Creative Management, your principal competitor, says it is not legal for you to receive compensation from MGM or any other studio while representing talent...
...Look, this industry invented conflicts of interest. In what other business would you have a lawyer who represents the chairman of a major film studio and also represents an important actor be the guy who makes the deal between the actor and the studio chief? Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking. But just as they build a Chinese wall to separate the parts of their companies that have competing or conflicting interests, we have built a Chinese wall at CAA. It's all about ethics...
...Nonsense. We got paid very well for our help, and both of those studios are stronger as a result. That means my clients will have more good places to bring their projects. Look, all of the big studio companies are deep in debt except for Disney. I have helped to bring more new capital into the entertainment business than anyone else in recent memory. It's all about expanding markets for my clients...
...come out there knowing how to fence and fight, how to use your voice, how to parse verse. You even learn how to screaming and crying on a purely technical level. Well, that's not the kind of thing they tend to concentrate on in the Actor's Studio and the Neighbor-hood Playhouse [representative American acting schools]. But that's very valid way of working, too; and the Englishmen are fascinated by that. They love American actors. The grass is always greener, I guess...