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Ari Emanuel Lists His World-Bettering Clients For Charlie Rose
Posted by Seth at 5:50 AM on June 18, 2008
On yesterday's episode of Charlie Rose, Endeavor superagent and frequent HuffPo-contributing gripe-haver Ari Emanuel joined his two equally accomplished siblings—Rahm, an Illinois Congressman, Ezekiel, a National Institutes of Health bioethicist—for a roundtable entitled, "A discussion about healthcare with Ezekiel, Ari, and Rahm Emanuel." Asked by Rose how he ended up in the comparatively glamorous arena of entertainment, the Endeavor head explained how he considers himself not so much a Hollywood agent as a showbizethicist, taking on only those artists whose work can elicit some societal change.
On yesterday's episode of Charlie Rose, Endeavor superagent and frequent
Clients like Aaron Sorkin—whose tragically short-lived observational masterwork, Studio 60, managed in one short season to get Americans thinking as much about blacklisted WGA veterans and U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan as it did about the serious-minded process of unfunny-sketch-show mounting. But while Emanuel is quick to deflect his accomplishments in favour of those of his higher-profile clients, we'd suggest no one has affected more positive change than Ari himself, his battered Prius the pace-car for the entire Hollywood conscience derby.
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TurdBlossom
Posted 6:40 AM 18/6/08
Someone's rocking the salt & pepper look.
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Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 6:37 AM 18/6/08
While I am only an amateur doucheologist, I can say that doucheness is probably passed on genetically. Or anally. Like I said, I am only an amateur.
Little Mintz Sunshine
harshmellow
Posted 6:15 AM 18/6/08
@CourageousCoward: I love that! When I first read it, I stumbled and pronounced it "showbizicist," (think "physicist") like someone who studies the showbiz...biz.
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CourageousCoward
Posted 6:11 AM 18/6/08
"Showbizethecist" - Wow! That's like a triple-word score oxymoron!!!
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L.A.Guy
Posted 7:52 AM 18/6/08
Puh-leeeeeze. What a humanitarian.
I guess that accounts for the Paris Hilton representation/firing, once he realized she wasn't a force for changing the world they had to cut her loose.
L.A.Guy
Dave_Seaman
Posted 4:57 PM 18/6/08
@L.A.Guy: Yeah, but he totally laid the smackdown to Mel Gibson in his HuffPo piece back in the day. Counts for something.
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Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 3:22 AM 19/6/08
@Dave_Seaman: You mean the piece after Mel's anti-Semetic tirade? Yeah, that was soo brave.
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notThat
Posted 9:58 PM 18/6/08
I saw this interview. How much Rose would a Rosewank wank if a Rosewank could wank Rose?
The best part was when this underachiever was asked to explain his splash into the sad pond of hollywood Gomorrah (this is Charlie Rose) and spluttered a list of his clients, who apparently made "the Shawshank Redemption" and other thoughtful liberal swill and all will be featured in cringe-worthy moveon ads before almost single-handedly costing the Democrats the next election, sadly. It was an impressive list, that list.
Finally, his older nobel-prize-winner-to-be (according to Rahm) brother said, "You are now giving money to *causes you care about*." Older brother was thanked for this stroke of the shaft. Footsies looked to be had.
Rahm basically talked over the top of both of his brothers like he did from birth, and like he is hopefully doing to Howard Dean.
If Ari Gold was based on this younger Emanuel brother, they've learned to embellish the fuck out of these writer meetings. His brother Rahm seemed a much more likely candidate to be running the entertainment business, like some Cyrano between screaming bouts with Speaker Pelosi.
notThat