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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, investor, and philanthropist. 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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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Michael-OvitzMichael Ovitz | Biography & Facts | Britannica

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   Apr 30, 2024 · Michael Ovitz (born December 14, 1946, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American talent manager who, as cofounder and head of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), was considered one of Hollywood’s most powerful figures in the 1980s and ’90s. Ovitz’s parents wanted him to become a doctor, but, while working part-time as a guide for Universal ...

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

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   Sep 23, 2018 · The memoir, due out Tuesday, traces Ovitz’s remarkable career as co-founder of Creative Artists Agency and his brief, ill-fated tenure as president of Walt Disney Co. Disney CEO Michael Eisner ...

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

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   Oct 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) Jamie McCarthy

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   When Marc Met Mike - Marc Andreessen Interviews Michael Ovitz Article Archive Michael Ovitz The New New Andreessen Bloomberg Businessweek As Silicon Valley events go, it was an irresistible draw: Marc Andreessen, Web wunderkind turned venture capitalist, interviewing Michael Ovitz, former superagent and co-founder of the Creative Artists Agency.

8. hbr.org › 2019 › 01Hollywood Superagent Michael Ovitz on Winning Over Clients ...

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   Life’s Work: An Interview with Michael Ovitz. As a cofounder of Creative Artists Agency, Ovitz revolutionized how big deals in film, TV, music, and corporate media were done from the 1970s ...

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   • Michael Steven Ovitz (born December 14, 1946) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. 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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   How much did David Ovitz get paid?

   • But instead, 14 months after unsuccessfully casting himself as Disney's president, Ovitz clashed irrevocably with Chairman of the Walt Disney Company Michael Eisner, collected an estimated $128 million in compensation, and boomeranged back to Hollywood.

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   Did Michael Ovitz attend the broad?

   • Michael Ovitz attended last night's opening night of The Broad, the Eli and Edythe Broad’s contemporary art museum located Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. “To have Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall, the Music Center, MOCA and LACMA, it’s like we’ve finally arrived,” Ovitz told THR in this article...

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   What did David Ovitz do at CAA?

   • While at CAA, Mr. Ovitz was known for assembling "package deals", wherein CAA would utilize its talent base to provide directors, actors and screenwriters to a studio, thus shifting the negotiating leverage from the studios to the talent.

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10. www.nytimes.com › 2018/09/23 › booksReflections of a Former Hollywood Power Broker - The New York ...

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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.