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When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday
Night Live, LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best
book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show.
In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of
trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera
antics and off-camera escapades. Now a fourth decade has
passed---and bestselling authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
have returned to Studio 8H. Over more than 100 pages of new
material, they raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to
the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises,
and controversies.
A New York Times bestseller, now updated with an afterword and
exclusive new material From the #1 bestselling author behind
acclaimed oral histories of Saturday Night Live and ESPN comes "the
most hotly anticipated book [in decades]" (Variety): James Andrew
Miller's irresistible insider chronicle of the modern entertainment
industry, told through the epic story of Creative Artists Agency
(CAA)-the ultimate power player that has represented the world's
biggest stars and shaped the landscape of film, television, comedy,
music, and sports. Started in 1975, when five bright and brash
upstarts left creaky William Morris to form their own innovative
talent agency, CAA would come to revolutionize Hollywood,
representing everyone from Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert De
Niro, and Steven Spielberg to Jennifer Lawrence, J.J. Abrams, Will
Smith, and Brad Pitt. Over the next decades its tentacles would
spread aggressively into sports, advertising, and digital media.
Powerhouse is the fascinating, no-holds-barred saga of that ascent.
Drawing on unprecedented and exclusive access to the men and women
who built and battled with CAA-including co-founders Michael Ovitz
and Ron Meyer and rivals like Ari Emanuel of William Morris
Endeavor-as well as the stars themselves, Miller spins a unique and
unforgettable tale of brilliance, ambition, betrayal, and
outrageous success.
It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to
televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut.
Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern
television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites States
and around the world. But the inside story of its rise has never
been fully told-until now. Drawing upon over 500 interviews with
the greatest names in ESPN's history and an All-Star collection of
some of the world's finest athletes, bestselling authors James
Miller and Tom Shales take us behind the cameras. Now, in their own
words, the men and women who made ESPN great reveal the secrets
behind its success-as well as the many scandals, rivalries,
off-screen battles and triumphs that have accompanied that ascent.
From the unknown producers and business visionaries to the most
famous faces on television, it's all here.
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