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CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

Acquired

CHAPTER

William Morris and the Movie Business

TV was still relatively new imagining. Most of the old people at w m a and and then also in of the studio business, just weren't tuned into this new world. We started our business on a hundred thousand dollars, and we never went into debt beyond that. And i will never forget talking to shawn. 19 79. I didn't have a clue what to say to him, and i was struggling for words. But i learned on the job. Ib sur shan's not a dumb guy, and he'd been in the business forever. He signed the lawyer a tax layer. So i decided to sign him as a client. It turned his career upside down with us.

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