Michael Steven Ovitz (born December 14, 1946) is an American businessman. He was a talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1975 and...
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California, Ovitz demonstrated an early interest in fashion design and horseback riding. The daughter of Judy (née Reich) and CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz, she...
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president, I will start a proxy fight.'" Eisner then recruited his friend Michael Ovitz, one of the founders of Creative Artists Agency, to be President with...
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Hollywood, California, in a space owned by former Hollywood super agent Michael Ovitz. After several delays, the restaurant ink. opened on September 21, 2011...
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five agents at the William Morris Agency in 1975. At a dinner, Michael Ovitz, Michael S. Rosenfeld, Ronald Meyer, Rowland Perkins, and William Haber decided...
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Ovitz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Michael Ovitz (born 1946), former president of Disney and Creative Artists Agency Kimberly...
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Above the Law (1988 film) (category Films scored by David Michael Frank)
dealer. The film originated after a successful screen test financed by Michael Ovitz, leading to Seagal being offered a contract by Warner Bros. It was set...
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alpine ranges of cocaine". In 2015, she announced her engagement to Michael Ovitz in a magazine interview with HELLO! In a 2016 The Sunday Times article...
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raider Carl Icahn, investor and art collector Asher Edelman, agent Michael Ovitz, and Stone himself. For example, Gekko's line "Greed, for lack of a...
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June 13, 2023. Treat Williams as the legendary agent Michael Ovitz is smart and smooth, as Mr. Ovitz is in life. "Treat Williams". Emmys.com. Retrieved...
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Agency because an old friend Guy McElwaine was restarting his agency. Michael Ovitz, then the chairman of CAA, threatened to prevent CAA actors from acting...
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The Walt Disney Company (section 1984–2005: Michael Eisner's leadership, the Disney Renaissance, merger, and acquisitions)
(1971–1980) Ron W. Miller (1980–1984) Frank Wells (1984–1994) Michael Ovitz (1995–1997) Michael Eisner (1997–2000) Bob Iger (2000–2012) Chief executive officers...
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and CEO, Michael Eisner. Disney had been without a separate president since Eisner assumed the role following the departure of Michael Ovitz in 1997,...
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DisneyWar (category Michael Eisner)
Walker, Ron W. Miller, Roy E. Disney, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Ovitz, Joe Roth, Bob Iger and Stan Kinsey. It was published in 2005 by Simon...
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top Creative Artists Agency (CAA) agent and a protégé of CAA founder Michael Ovitz. He died by suicide at age 35. Moloney grew up in Southern California...
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then her clients have included Tom Brokaw, Candice Bergen, Agnes Gund, Michael Ovitz, Mike Nichols, and Diane Sawyer. She served for over 10 years as a board...
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school at a diner. His classmates included future Disney president Michael Ovitz and actresses Sally Field and Cindy Williams. In 1968, he graduated...
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Masters, Kim. "The Epic Disney Blow-Up of 1994: Eisner, Katzenberg and Ovitz 20 Years Later". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 19, 2017. "Chain...
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company's estimated valuation is above $100 million. Investors including Michael Ovitz, Max Levchin, Adam D’Angelo, Vlad Tenev, and Ruchi Sanghvi have also...
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people including Chris Rock, Courtney Love, Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Michael Ovitz, and numerous others. In 1992, Pellicano was hired by Bill Clinton's...
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leading case on executive compensation. The Walt Disney Company appointed Michael Ovitz as executive president and director in 1995. He had founded Creative...
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1999. After reading books about entertainment players David Geffen, Michael Ovitz and Barry Diller, he decided from an early age he wanted to be a talent...
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(former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) Herbert Muschamp Michael Ovitz Robert Rauschenberg Edward Ruscha Esa-Pekka Salonen Julian Schnabel...
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John Michael Higgins (born February 12, 1963) is an American actor, game show host, and comedian whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries...
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surprise". On 10 February 2020, Ghosn hired former Disney president Michael Ovitz, co-founder of the Creative Artists Agency, as his Hollywood agent....
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distributor. The producers showed a print to Michael Ovitz, head of the powerful Creative Artists Agency, and Ovitz promised to help them find a distributor...
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so many different endings. They were so generous at Disney, we had Michael Ovitz and Joe Roth running the place, they were really great with us. We shot...
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Creative Artists Agency, was founded in 1975 by Michael Ovitz, Ronald Meyer, William Haber, Michael S. Rosenfeld, and Rowland Perkins, all former WMA...
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had assumed that Michael Eisner would appoint him as Wells's successor, but he refused. (In 1995, Eisner instead hired Michael Ovitz to fill the position)...
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a $100,000 to $250,000 shakedown in order not to be investigated by Michael Ovitz, another Pellicano client. In a twist to the case, The New York Times...
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