Michael Ovitz was ever the master of both confession and concealment — the shared confidence that really wasn’t, or the backdoor whisper that had to be denied. When I was pursuing him, in a reportorial sense, for a 1986 Wall Street Journal profile, for instance, he struck a pose of complete resistance. But he also had a certain highly placed studio executive spend two hours of expensive office time answering 50 or 100 detailed questions. Responding by proxy allowed him to say that he hadn’t helped, a fiction he maintains to this day. “Though I’d declined to cooperate with the Journal, I thought the story could help our business,” he writes on page 194 of his new memoir, Who Is Michael Ovitz?, from Portfolio/Penguin.
So it’s hard to know what to make of a book that purports to come clean about perhaps the most complicated and consequential career in modern...
So it’s hard to know what to make of a book that purports to come clean about perhaps the most complicated and consequential career in modern...
- 10/1/2018
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
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