• 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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    (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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    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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