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Ari Emanuel Takes Call From Obama During Meeting

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 04.04.2012

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The bidding for the film rights to "Fifty Shades of Grey" reached hysteric proportions in Hollywood this week, but not even the popular erotic novel c...

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The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies Celebrates Steppenwolf Theatre

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.27.2012

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Lonna Saunders

The Good Wife's Julianna Margulies came to Chicago as the guest of honor at the third annual Steppenwolf Salutes Women in the Arts luncheon.

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Ari Emanuel: I Thought 'Entourage' Would Be A Loser

Posted 01.02.2012

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After eight seasons and a movie headed to the big screen, Ari Emanuel, the real life inspiration for foul-mouthed agent Ari Gold on HBO's "Entourage",...

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Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun Blames Rahm Emanuel For Democratic Losses

Posted 05.25.2011

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Rahm Emanuel is firing back at Carol Moseley Braun after the former U.S. Senator and fellow mayoral hopeful criticized his Hollywood fundraiser and bl...

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Rahm Emanuel Holds Hollywood Fundraiser, Opponents Cry Foul

Posted 05.25.2011

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Rahm Emanuel is in Hollywood today, where his agent brother has helped organize a fundraiser with some big Democratic donors and West Coast powerhouse...

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Blagojevich Trial: Prosecution Winding Down, Trial Could Be Delayed For One Week

AP | MIKE ROBINSON and MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday in the corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich, after presenting more than five weeks of testimony f...

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Super Agents In Turf Battle Over Role In Lebron James Deal

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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How Team LeBron (And Ari Emanuel) Got 'Decision' Special On ESPN

AdAge | Posted 05.25.2011

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By now you've heard the offense against basketball star LeBron James' one-hour TV special to announce his team choice -- that it was narcissistic, sul...

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Hollywood and Mass Transit: Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joel Epstein

It's time to celebrate the pro-environment, pro-community, good-for-the-economy and anti-gridlock reality that a positive portrayal of urban mass transit can help create.

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Is Hollywood Racist?

Nick Kreiss | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Blagojevich Trial: Bradley Tusk Explains Blago's Attempt To Shakedown Rahm Emanuel

Huffington Post | Janan Hanna | Posted 05.25.2011

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A prosecution witness painted a portrait of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich as someone who rarely went to the office, was oftentimes hard to reach and who...

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Letter From Paris: After the Cheese Princess Left

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beth Arnold

The Cheese Princess will return to me one of these days soon, I hope, and I'll spend time with her in the U.S. Plus, I can get burgers delivered in Paris (without Corsica Colas)! Not bad.

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Andrew Young Movie: Former Edwards Aide Signs With Superagent Ari Emanuel

Posted 05.25.2011

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Former John Edwards aide Andrew Young, author of the tell-all book 'The Politician' and keeper of the Edwards sex tape, will be portrayed in a movie a...

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President Obama, Replace Rahm With Me: An Open Letter From Michael Moore

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Moore

President Obama, I don't know what your team has been up to, but they haven't served you well. And Rahm, poor Rahm, has turned into a fighter -- not of Republicans, but of the left.

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Rod Blagojevich: Rahm Emanuel's Brother Wanted Ultimate Fighting Legal In Illinois

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bizarre stories about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich seem to be plentiful this month, and the Chicago Sun-Times' story today about the state...

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Layoffs in the William Morris-Endeavor Merger

nytimes.com | MICHAEL CIEPLY | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the year ends, Hollywood, no less than the Heartland, is coping with the shock of widespread unemployment. Studio executives, publicists, agents, a...

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Charlie Rose: I'm "The Fourth Emanuel Brother"

Posted 05.25.2011

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At the end of Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes' A1 story on the ascension of Ari Emanuel as Hollywood's top dog is an anecdote about one of Ari's clie...

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Blagojevich Allegedly Extorted Rahm Emanuel Over Grant For School

AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Rahm Emanuel wanted answers. Funds from a $2 million state grant to a school in his congressional district had not arrived, ...

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Hollywood Talent Agency's Trip To The Top

New York Times | Michael Cieply | Posted 05.25.2011

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ONCE upon a time in Hollywood, a band of rebels left a lumbering old talent agency to start a hot little company of their own -- and in a dozen years ...

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