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We're Leading The 'Energy Star' Nation

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 04.18.2012

Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual list of cities with the highest number of Energy Star buildings. Los Ang...

Christoper Nolan Is Out In The Name Of Loyalty

Posted 03.01.2012

"Cobb, I'm coming with you," says Ariadne, the female protagonist of Christopher Nolan's Academy Award winning film, "Inception." Now it looks lik...

The Senate Defeats Several Attacks on Clean Air and Carbon Reductions

Frances Beinecke | Posted 06.07.2011

Frances Beinecke

These votes make it clear: The Senate agrees with the Supreme Court that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act.

Details: The Hottest Golden Globes Parties

latimes.com | Matt Donnelly, Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Let's hope the Beverly Hilton Hotel is reinforced in steel come Golden Globes Sunday -- each year the awards telecast brings crushing star power to Be...

Private Equity Firm Buys 35% of CAA

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

LOS ANGELES — Private equity firm TPG Capital has bought a 35 percent stake in Creative Artists Agency, one of the largest talent agencies in Ho...

Super Agents In Turf Battle Over Role In Lebron James Deal

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Usually, when agents score a big deal they like to boast about it. But Creative Artists Agency has been curiously mum about a bona fide coup involv...

The End Of An Era?: CAA Partners Reportedly Cashing Out Of Agency

deadline.com | Posted 05.25.2011

My sources tell me that, after months and months of negotiations with potential financial partners pursued by CAA, the agency has focused on KKR -- Ko...

Creative Artists Weighs Equity Group Alliance To Expand Into Sports

nytimes.com | MICHAEL CIEPLY and MICHAEL J. De La MERCED | Posted 05.25.2011

The Creative Artists Agency, the powerhouse for entertainment and sports talent, has been in discussions with private equity firms like Kohlberg Kravi...

DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

DK Matai

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

DK Matai

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The Sound of Service: It's Time to Bring MusicianCorps to LA

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011

Jonathan Greenblatt

I attended a briefing this past week that still has me glowing with inspiration. It was a reminder of the miraculous potential of service and the raw power of music.

Is Hollywood Racist?

Nick Kreiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Nick Kreiss

A while ago Nikki Finke got a hold of an internal memo from CAA and posted it. How did the agency respond? They fired the Latino assistant they thought was responsible, even though nobody there in fact leaked it.

Amid Dismal Summer, Studio Execs Now Considering 'Originality'

deadline.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Top agencies like CAA and WME are hosting intimate confabs with 20th Century Fox (Tom Rothman and/or Emma Watts) and Warner Bros (Jeff Robinov and/or ...

Tom Cruise To Speak At CAA Corporate Retreat

deadline.com | Nikki Finke | Posted 05.25.2011

Yes, the agents are leaving their Century City marble mausoleum for Ojai starting tomorrow because it's retreat time. For the next few days, the sched...

CAA Invests In Jeans Company

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

The future of fashion in the entertainment industry just came into a little clearer focus this morning, with the announcement that Star Avenue Capital...

Let It Go -- Rise Up!

Scott Schwenk | Posted 05.25.2011

Scott Schwenk

What inspires me more than skill in Whitney Houston's latest album is the transparency in sharing her ongoing journey through darkness into expansion, into embodying self-love.

Jay or Conan? Who Cares?! Really.

Pye Ian | Posted 05.25.2011

Pye Ian

Meanwhile, back in Reality, the national unemployment rate continues to rise while property prices continue to deflate, wiping out further billions in multi-decade-inflated homeowner equity.

Two Creative Artist Agency Agents Play It Forward

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Dennis Danziger

They work at CAA, at the most powerful entertainment company in the world. I thought my students were going to lift Caleb Franklin and Arleta Fowler onto their shoulders.

CAA Savings On Parking: $800,000?

The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011

It's been nearly a year since CAA made a fateful decision at its new Death Star headquarters in Century City, all shiny and gleamy and expensive. N...

Greening Hollywood: Annenberg's Space Exhibits Humanity in Pixels

Paige Donner | Posted 11.17.2011

Paige Donner

The Annenberg Foundation has bestowed an exquisite visual, digital jewel upon our city and that jewel is The Annenberg Space For Photography, opening this week.

Penelope Cruz And Tom Cruise's Awkward CAA Party Run In

NY POST | Posted 05.25.2011

IT was an awkward moment at Creative Artists Agency head Bryan Lourd's house party Friday night that kicked off Oscar weekend when Tom Cruise and his...

Robert De Niro Fires His Agency

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 05.25.2011

I've confirmed what my sources told me this afternoon: that Robert De Niro has left CAA. But I'm still trying to confirm the second part of what my so...

Finke: Cash-Strapped CAA Is Fishing For Capital

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 05.25.2011

Over-extended CAA is fishing for capital. I'm told the talent agency is putting on dog and pony shows for venture capitalists at its Century City maus...