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<title>Doug Richardson - FishbowlLA</title>
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<title>Screenwriter Recalls the Day He Joked About CAA</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-64362 alignright" title="DarkHorseCover" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/files/2012/06/DarkHorseCover.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="269" />When <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Michael-Ovitz-profile.html" target="_">Michael Ovitz</a></strong> departed CAA in the mid-1990s, screenwriter-novelist <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Doug-Richardson-profile.html" target="_">Doug Richardson</a></strong> found himself unexpectedly caught up in a blaze of media coverage.</p>
<p>In a blog post titled “<a href="http://dougrichardson.com/2012/spiking-the-football" target="_">Spiking the Football</a>,” he recalls that because he happened to leave the agency for William Morris right before Ovitz&#8217;s exit, he was lumped together somewhat hilariously with <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/David-E-Kelley-profile.html" target="_">David E. Kelley</a></strong> in <em>LA Times</em> and <em>New York Times</em> coverage. Separately, when Richardson&#8217;s new agents packaged his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Horse-Doug-Richardson/dp/0380787709/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339522764&amp;sr=1-2" target="_">first nove <em>Dark Horse</em></a> for mid-six figures, he did an interview with <em>Variety</em>&rsquo;s <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Mike-Fleming-profile.html" target="_">Mike Fleming</a></strong>. Which got him into a lot of trouble:</p>
<blockquote><p>“So,” said Fleming. “<strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/John-Travolta-profile.html" target="_">John Travolta</a></strong> as star. <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Brian-Grazer-profile.html" target="_">Brian Grazer</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Ron-Howard-profile.html" target="_">Ron Howard</a></strong> as producers. How’s that feel?”</p>
<p>“Great,” I answered, then added something I thought was funny. “Who knew I’d have to leave CAA to get packaged.”</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/doug-richardson-dark-horse-caa-william-morris-mike-fleming-variety_b64355#more-64355" class="more-link">continued&#8230;</a></p></blockquote>
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