What I’m Hearing: Greenblatt’s Tell-All & Lovett’s Sly Reunion

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Greetings from NYC, which remains the capital of hot garbage on the sidewalk, and a big thank you to everyone who came out for our Puck event last night. A packed house! (More on that next week.)

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Thursday Thoughts…

—Reunited and it feels so icky: So you’re CAA’s Richard Lovett. You’re in your late 60s, you’ve been co-running a talent agency for more than 25 years, you’ve got investors that would really love it if you focused not on elderly prima donnas but on growing the overall company and taking it public like Ari Emanuel did, and you’re still subordinate to the whims of an unhinged 76-year old actor? Lovett re-signed Sylvester Stallone last weekend, a few months after getting fired by his famously difficult client...

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The Return of Bob Greenblatt?

The legendary television executive just wrote a memoir about the hits he made and the networks he ran, but two years after his messy WarnerMedia ouster, the book might be a prelude to his own next moves.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Have you read this Bob Greenblatt book? Normally, when a Hollywood executive is as prolific and impactful as Greenblatt and decides to write a memoir, there would be months of anticipation, industry gossip, and speculation about whether that incident or her blowup would be included. For Greenblatt’s big tell-all, titled The Rockford Files: Epiphanies in Show Business (he’s from Rockford, Illinois), there’s been none of that. He doesn’t even have a publisher.

Instead, the former chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct-to-Consumer—and before that the top programmer at both NBC and Showtime, with successful producing stints in TV and Broadway in between—self-published the 414-page book and has been quietly mailing hardback copies to friends and former colleagues. It made its way to me, so I read it last weekend...

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