Michael Ovitz

... possibly.

Among the thing, the people that he takes potshots at in his book is the previous iconic super agent of Hollywood, Michael Ovitz.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and one of the specific things he says about Michael Ovitz, there's a long litany, but I'm just gonna focus on the worm-related one, "I scold him.

He hasn't gotten his blood work done in years.

He isn't doing ice plunges, he isn't doing daily breathwork, he isn't fasting, and he needs to be eating worms."

Hmm.

another example is the religious right tried very hard to stop martin scorsese's the last temptation of christ from coming out you can rent the last temptation of christ right now on the streaming platform of your choice the scorsese movie you will not be able to find is kundun which is about the life of the dalai lama it's actually one of his greatest films and the reason why you won't be able to find it is that disney does business in china and they don't want the movie shown because china will get pissed at them i feel comfortable saying that on the air because they've basically said as much themselves Michael Ovitz, when he was the head of Disney, apologized to the nation of China for the film even being made, right? So that is a nation using money to clamp down on free speech.

And you can't challenge that in the courts.

I wanted to end it there, but I'm going to ask you one more question.

It's actually Deborah Winger from Officer and a Gentleman in terms of endearment.

He loses Deborah Winger as a client to a young Michael Ovitz over at CAA and the fact that Robbie didn't see it coming or the fact that Robbie was not able to fight for Deborah Winger and wasn't able to maintain that and get that.

already is disgusted and basically as much as he reveres this guy has to leave and tries his own and then he goes on and he starts working at one of the agencies and he just his names are in this thing and he just trashes some of these people in a way that i i have not read or heard in a memoir and it is a rollicking good time i mean he starts off at caa then he ends up at another firm then he goes to another firm and each one of these is so dramatic He has amazing lines though.

One of them was like, I always look to color outside the lines, but I also like to eat the crayon, these wild lines.

Back in 2009, there was a big scandal centered around Raj Rajaratnam and his fund Galleon Group, which implicated traders at other big Wall Street firms, too.

According to the writers, Gekko wasn't based on any single person but was instead inspired by a number of people like Carl Icahn, Ivan Boesky, and Michael Ovitz.

The famous Gekko quote, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good," echoed a speech Ivan Boesky had given at Berkeley a few years earlier where he had said, "I think greed is healthy.

You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." The film dips into the world of corporate raiding where companies are bought and assets are stripped and sold, which often leads to job losses.

He doesn't really look toward the future of what he hath helped create.

create he also picks on Michael Ovitz a lot because supposedly his regime is this is very much like Fenton's I think he's up like at 345 in the morning and he's doing he's meditating he eats live worms to keep his gut health correct and he was talking to Michael Ovitz he used to be the most powerful man in the world who's now just soft soft I tell you and he's like you know what the problem is he doesn't deal with his gut he doesn't deal with his gut he doesn't do you know he's not doing the worm thing So it would seem that Ari Emanuel is going to live forever and pay no consequence for all that he's

done.

And his brother is laying track to run for president, which is never going to happen, by the way.

in Chicago, right?

Yes.

And he talks about getting the food for CAA at four in the morning, getting the bagels, getting the fruit, juggling the coffee, replacing Michael Ovitz's toilet paper.

But he's become soft, I tell you, soft.