Troubleshooting Life 300, October 26 - Study the greats, especially those you do not know yet
This is the first audiobook I picked on Audible, this day in 2018.
Now that you know this name, search it. Go ahead, I’l wait.
Don’t you see? THIS MAN IS INSANE.
The memoir of a real life Ari Gold who did, among many things:
mentored Earvin “Magic” Johnson, told him “Magic, read Wall Street Journal every day, overcome the jock stereotype.”
Rain Man, which the actors privately called “two schmucks in a car,” one of my favorite CAA packages.
Ghostbusters, Goodfellas, Jurassic Park, the list goes on.
In a town built on fantasy, exhibit wealth and success
Wrote the CAA creed: “You don’t have one agent, you have five”—and, later, “ten,” “fifty,” “one hundred.”
“My evenings and Saturday mornings were swallowed by the demands of a growing service organization, from tax planning and pensions to training programs.”
Some people love Michael Ovitz, others love to hate him.
Me? I find his memoir interesting, and admit CAA is a great firm, now mostly owned by fashion mogul François-Henri Pinault.
ACTION POINT:: Study the greats, especially those you do not know yet.
