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Big Screen

William Morris Endeavor Assistants Now Being Paid Like Babysitters

2:44PM the cajun boy | So you wanna be a hotshot agent like Ari on that horrible Entourage show? Well, you’ll probably have to start out as an assistant, which means you’d better have a trust fund or an insatiable fondness for ramen noodles. More »
People

Ari Emanuel Will Rule Hollywood As Its New Jesus

5:30PM the cajun boy | Superagent Ari Emanuel, brother of Rahm, has been getting lots of glowing press lately. Remember when the New York Times genuflected at his altar on their front page? Now The Independent is breathlessly touting his plans to single-handedly reinvent Hollywood. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Ari Gold To Rep Vince Chase’s Blonde South African Lady Friend

2:09AM Richard Lawson | Lots of casting news today, from Charlie Murphy to Clifton Collins Jr. Plus Charlize Theron employs the best person in the business to yell at people for her. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Warrior Angel Dan Brown Hovers Over A Roiling Hollywood

3:24AM Richard Lawson | Bad news for Fox Atomic, good news for power-mad Ari Emmanuel. Bad news for people who are wise to Dan Brown’s tomfoolery, and good news for those who aren’t. Plus, the good/bad on pilot season. More »

Meet The Newest Wholesome Family Sensation: The Emanuel Brothers!

8:14AM Seth | Pictured on a Disney premiere red carpet is fraternal showbiz sensation the Emanuel Brothers—Ari (the sexy brooding one, and the brains of the operation), Rahm (the cute, vocal one), and Zeke (the goofier-looking older one who you’d still totally be thrilled to settle for)—sending their throngs of young admirers into screaming fits and fainting spells. More »

Hey, Ari: Hope You’re Enjoying That Power-Breakfast Bagel!

6:45AM Seth | Behold the splendour that is Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter, splayed in nothing but skivvies and white loafers across the fabled Endeavour conference table. (40-foot long Corian, white laminated glass, stainless steel, hand-carved by an ancient order of Unicorn Panda craftsmen—you know the one.) More »

20 Rahm Emanuel Fun Facts For A New, Ari-Friendly White House

7:03AM Seth | With news that Rep. Rahm Emanuel—fourth-ranking Democrat and brother to Endeavor head and sporadic HuffPo grump Ari Emanuel—is mulling President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to be his chief of staff, we thought we’d help you cram with this list of some essential and less-essential Rahm knowledge: More »

New Day For Endeavor Kind Of Like the Old Days, Minus the Conference-Room Orgies

2:30AM STV | A sweeping profile of Endeavor hit The NY Times on Sunday, placing the agency’s arduous climb to power in a welcome new perspective. By virtually all accounts, ETA has “grown up” — from a puckish, oversexed boys club to a puckish, oversexed employer of Jodie Foster’s rumoured lesbian paramour (and more than a half-dozen female partners, up from zero just a few years ago). But despite all Ari Emanuel’s progressive brio, he still can’t outrun CAA or his own choppy past — Michael Ovitz gets a fun body-blow in by the eighth paragraph, Ari not-so-strenuously deflects those nagging sale and/or merger rumours, and, for those who missed it, there’s a recap of Endeavor’s somewhat experimental sexual/ethnic chemistry: More »

Ben Silverman Could Have Sworn His Meeting With Ari Emanuel Was Next Week

11:05AM Defamer Hollywood | What’s the bigger scandal in Kim Masters’ recent rundown of the kerfuffle between Ari Emanuel and Ben Silverman: That Slate published the whole thing with Emanuel’s name repeatedly misspelled “Emmanuel,” or that Silverman would dare stand Emanuel up not once but twice in meetings with Marvel boss David Maisel and producer/director Peter Berg? We honestly don’t know, but for sheer cafeteria-slapfight drama, we’re leaning toward the latter: More »