Hollywood Ending

Onetime Hollywood strongman Michael Ovitz used to make news for all the wrong reasons: voicing paranoiac slurs about the “gay mafia,” causing schisms in the Mickey Mouse fantasy factory during his star-crossed Disney stint, and manhandling the help as documented in Suzanne Hansen’s book You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again.

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• Richard Hughes
• Rachel Harrison
• Mark Bradford

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What is sometimes overlooked about the former head of the all-powerful Creative Artists Agency is that he and his power wife, Judy, funneled much of that Tinseltown loot into a major-league contemporary-art collection. Many works from their lionized hoard are included in the “NOW: Selections From the Ovitz Family Collection” exhibit. Featured artists include Mark Bradford, Rachel Harrison, Richard Hughes, Jamie Isenstein, and Katy Moran.