As they sat together at an opulent wedding reception that financier Marvin Davis was throwing for his daughter at his Beverly Hills home on Dec. 7, Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz, the ranking executives at the Walt Disney Co., apparently came to the conclusion that their own corporate union must be dissolved.
Just a week later, one of the more stunning reversals of fortune (even for Hollywood) was announced, following a frenzy of speculation that transfixed both coasts. Ovitz, the former superagent once routinely described as "the most powerful man in Hollywood," was out as president of Disney after a brief...
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