Sometimes referred to as the "most powerful man in Hollywood", Ovitz began his career as a tour guide at Universal Studios in the 1960s, trained as an agent (literally working his way up from the mailroom) at the William Morris Agency and left briefly to study law before returning to William Morris. He then co-founded the phenomenally successful and powerful Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1975, and shortly after became chairman of the board. (Ovitz owned just over half the company.) By the late 1980s, CAA had acquired a client list of some 150 directors, 130 actors and 250 writers--all the
