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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Michael_OvitzMichael Ovitz - Wikipedia

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   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 served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later served as president of The Walt Disney Company for only 16 months, from October 1995 to January 1997.

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     Michael Ovitz on His Experience With Disney

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     Michael Ovitz on His Legacy in Hollywood, CAA, & The Book That Tells It All | #AskGaryVee 293

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3. www.latimes.com › business › hollywoodFrom super agent to Disney castoff, Michael Ovitz recounts ...

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   Sep 23, 2018 · Former Hollywood super agent Michael Ovitz recounts his tumultuous 15-month tenure as president of Walt Disney Co. ... to tell the world what had really happened. The judge, Chancellor William B ...

4. www.vanityfair.com › 2018 › 10Michael Ovitz Still Can’t Help Himself - Vanity Fair

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   Oct 5, 2018 · By Rebecca Keegan. October 5, 2018. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 26: Michael Ovitz In Conversation at 92nd Street Y on September 26, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images ...

5. www.vanityfair.com › michael-ovitz-ron-meyer-caaHow Superagents Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer Divorced CAA and ...

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   Mar 30, 2016 · MICHAEL OVITZ: They did the opposite of what I had taught them to do. They were really nasty to me. ... I killed myself for those people. I really did. I probably would have never left if they had ...

6. www.ft.com › content › eebaba14-c195-11e8-8d55Michael Ovitz, Hollywood super-agent, on ‘winning at all costs’

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   Sep 28, 2018 · I have just asked Michael Ovitz about his treatment of enemies during the 20 years he spent as Hollywood’s super-agent. ... “Or they’d tell me they had an assignment and, if you happened to ...

7. www.nytimes.com › 2018/09/23 › booksReflections of a Former Hollywood Power Broker

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   Sep 23, 2018 · As Michael Ovitz reached his breaking point at the all-powerful talent agency C.A.A., which he had run like a warlord since cofounding it in 1975, he did the unthinkable: He insulted a superstar.

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   Who was Michael Ovitz?

   • Michael Ovitz was ever the master of both confession and concealment — the shared confidence that really wasn’t, or the backdoor whisper that had to be denied. When I was pursuing him, in a reportorial sense, for a 1986 Wall Street Journal profile, for instance, he struck a pose of complete resistance.

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   Did Ovitz make a mistake?

   • He had been brought into the fold by then chief executive Michael Eisner, but it quickly became apparent that he had made a terrible mistake: in the book he accuses Eisner of undermining him; Eisner, by contrast, wrote memos to other employees calling Ovitz a “psychopath” and accusing him of lying.

   Michael Ovitz, Hollywood super-agent, on ‘winning at all costs’

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   Did Michael Ovitz leave CAA?

   • Twenty years after he founded the company, Ovitz left CAA in 1995. But Ovitz has never, as far as I can tell, left agenting. Rebecca Keegan is a Hollywood Correspondent for Vanity Fair. In his new book, Who Is Michael Ovitz?, the former superagent wrestles with his reputation as a ruthless negotiator.

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   Who beat Michael Ovitz?

   • Paul Newman beats Michael Ovitz to the finish line at a slick track in Los Angeles. I did get a few things done when I immersed myself in the nitty-gritty of operations. I came up with the idea for ABC’s One Saturday Morning, a two-hour block of children’s programming they launched after I left.

   From super agent to Disney castoff, Michael Ovitz recounts his epic

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   Did Michael Ovitz get married?

   • He shared them with nine siblings but made enough to keep buying new Fleetwoods, while David made do with less. Inevitably, Michael Ovitz, after a public school education, went to UCLA — after all, it was in Westwood, his far horizon at the time. He married a college sweetheart, Judy Reich, who was a little better off.

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   How did Ovitz get fired?

   • Learning of their plans, William Morris fired them in January 1975. Borrowing $21,000 from a bank, the agents rented a small office, conducting business on card tables and rented chairs, their wives taking turns as agency receptionist. Ovitz reportedly had three new film packaging deals sold in the first week.

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9. deadline.com › 2018 › 10'Who Is Michael Ovitz?': A Memoir Of Confession And Concealment

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   Oct 1, 2018 · Michael Ovitz was ever the master of both confession and concealment — the shared confidence that really wasn’t, or the backdoor whisper that had to be denied. When I was pursuing him, in a ...