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Nikki Finke

Evicted From L.A., Mike Ovitz Brings His Ragtime to Lavent Inc.

The New York media’s front-page coverage of Michael Ovitz’s $20 million takeover of Garth Drabinsky’s Livent Inc. had to be heartening to the former head of the Creative Artists Agency. Since being pushed from the No. 2 spot at the Walt Disney Company with the help of his ex-best friend, Disney chief executive Michael Eisner, Read More

Plop! The Mighty NBC Lands in the E.R.

When you think of Warren Littlefield, the president of NBC Entertainment, think of Tevye the dairyman in Fiddler on the Roof , who found ambiguity in all things.

On one hand, his network is still No. 1. On the other, NBC seems to have just finished second to the patchwork schedule of chafing-at-the-bit, insurgent CBS Read More