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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 »