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Zusatztext "[F]un to read both for the boldface names - including agency founders Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer! and clients like Magic Johnson and Ali MacGraw - and for a glimpse into a largely unseen world of cultural influencers." Informationen zum Autor JAMES ANDREW MILLER is an award-winning journalist and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN ; Live from New York: The Complete! Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars! Writers! and Guests ! which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list; and Running in Place: Inside the Senate! also a bestseller. He has written for The Washington Post! The New York Times! Vanity Fair ! and many other publications. He is a graduate of Occidental College! Oxford University! and Harvard Business School! all with honors. Klappentext An astonishing—and astonishingly entertaining—history of Creative Artists Agency! from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun. The movies you watch! the TV shows you adore! the concerts and sporting events you attend—behind the curtain of nearly all of these is an immensely powerful and secretive corporation known as Creative Artists Agency. Started in 1975! when five bright and brash employees of a creaky William Morris office left to open their own! strikingly innovative talent agency! CAA would come to revolutionize the entertainment industry! and over the next several decades its tentacles would spread aggressively throughout the worlds of movies! television! music! advertising! and investment banking. Powerhouse is the fascinating! no-holds-barred saga of that ascent. Drawing on unprecedented and exclusive access to the men and women who built and battled with CAA! as well as financial information never before made public! author James Andrew Miller spins a tale of boundless ambition! ruthless egomania! ceaseless empire building! drugs! sex! greed! and personal betrayal. It is also a story of prophetic brilliance! magnificent artistry! singular genius! entrepreneurial courage! strategic daring! foxhole brotherhood! and how one firm utterly transformed the entertainment business. Here are the real Star Wars—complete with a Death Star—told through the voices of those who were there. Packed with scores of stars from movies! television! music! and sports! as well as a tremendously compelling cast of agents! studio executives! network chiefs! league commissioners! private equity partners! tech CEOs! and media tycoons! Powerhouse is itself a Hollywood blockbuster of the most spectacular sort. Zusammenfassung A New York Times bestseller An astonishing—and astonishingly entertaining—history of Hollywood’s transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all! from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun. The movies you watch! the TV shows you adore! the concerts and sporting events you attend—behind the curtain of nearly all of these is an immensely powerful and secretive corporation known as Creative Artists Agency. Started in 1975! when five bright and brash employees of a creaky William Morris office left to open their own! strikingly innovative talent agency! CAA would come to revolutionize the entertainment industry! and over the next several decades its tentacles would spread aggressively throughout the worlds of movies! television! music! advertising! and investment banking. Powerhouse is the fascinating! no-holds-barred saga of that ascent. Drawing on unprecedented and exclusive access to the men and women who built and battled with CAA! as well as financial inf...
