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Review tinderbox james andrew12/9/2023 ![]() As a finishing touch, he mixed a toxic cocktail of Sun-Tzu and Machiavellian doctrines that left him ironically without any game plan, but that didn’t stop him from engaging in discussions about his future fueled by a sense of entitlement that proved astonishing even to Hollywood veterans. He then displayed new levels of hubris and cranked up his somewhat Trumpian relationship with the truth. ![]() Craving new challenges (more power, more money) and knowing all too well that he had to leave Creative Artists Agency, the company he had co-founded with four other former William Morris agents (he was no longer welcome) Ovitz, long admired for his decisiveness, somehow contracted a virus of indecisiveness. ![]() And that is why he needs the question mark in 2018.ġ995 was the pivotal year in Ovitz’s professional life needing to be at his very best, he wound up being at his very worst. Anyone in the entertainment industry during the 1980s or ’90s is likely to be perplexed, surprised or outright flabbergasted to learn that Michael Ovitz has titled his just-published memoir Who Is Michael Ovitz? Widely considered the most powerful man in Hollywood at the time, Ovitz was beyond ubiquitous, taking up so much oxygen during his reign that most knowledgeable souls would likely have expected a title more like I, Claudius.Īs it turns out, however, the supremely confident Ovitz, who often brilliantly acted as chief puppeteer for other people’s careers and mergers, and who put together 20 startling years of achievement from 1975 to 1995, proved spectacularly unequal to the challenge of orchestrating his own fate.
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