Michael Ovitz: prediction

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…Whoa. We got out of that mess. We were sitting in the conference room. I will never forget this. Rosenberg said, you know, we're going to have the best television agency in history because we're never going to sign Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, or any of these people. This was before we signed Sean Connery. Ron Meyer and I looked at each other and Mike Rosenfeld, and we looked at them and I said, well, that's not true. We're going to sign all those people. They said, you're nuts, you're not going to sign any of them. So I said, well, we plan on signing every single one of them because we want a monopoly on talent to give us leverage to turn the paradigm around against the distributors. They said, that'll never happen. I said, thank you, the meeting's over, we're never going to merge. About six months later, we signed Connery. Then every week, we signed a famous movie star after that. Didn't you take out an ad in Variety announcing it?…

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