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Michael Ovitz,
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
Ovitz’s breakthrough idea was to build an integrated network that would allow any of the firm’s agents to connect their clients to a firm-wide grid of new opportunities. As a result, the firm would be a hundred times more powerful than any one agent at any other agency. To implement the idea, Ovitz and his founding partners agreed to defer their sa
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I really didn’t have an agent until Michael; I just had a lawyer, Bert Fields.
James Andrew Miller • Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
But then another agent said, “When I spoke with him a bit later, he sounded a little more into it,” so I thought, Oh, okay, these two guys represent Chris Reeve. And then another person says, “I think there’s an outsider contender here, he was talking about this other script.” I remember nudging the person next to me and asking, “Who represents Chr
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