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CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

Acquired

CHAPTER

The Studio System in the Seventies

The old studio system worked like a sports league. There were five teams, the major studios, then a couple independents,. A couple major miners. They were all a sports team that had the owners back in new york; those were the studio bosses. All the actors, directors, writers, they were players and might be paid. But if they didn't go out and play, they would get suspended.

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