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Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is an American talent and sports agency headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company was incorporated in Delaware.〔(Delaware Division of Corporations ) manual search required〕 == History == Talent agents employed by the William Morris Agency—Mike Rosenfeld, Michael Ovitz, Ron Meyer, William Haber, and Rowland Perkins—met over dinner one night in 1975〔Michael S. Rosenfeld's obituary ''Los Angeles Times'', March 30, 2010; page AA6.〕 after they discovered that they all had the same idea in mind: creating an agency of their own. Before they could obtain adequate financing, they had been fired. By early 1975, Creative Artists Agency was in business, with a $35,000 line of credit and a $21,000 bank loan, in a small Century City rented office outfitted with card tables and folding chairs. The five agents had only two cars among them, and their wives took turns as agency receptionist. Within about a week, according to one industry insider, they had sold their first three packages, a game show called ''Rhyme and Reason'', the ''Rich Little Show'', and ''The Jackson 5ive''. At first, CAA's founders planned to form a medium-sized, full-service agency—one that was as unlike Morris as possible in approach and feel. Ovitz, who shortly assumed de facto leadership of the agency, described the company's corporate culture as a blend of Eastern philosophy and team sports. "I liken myself to the guy running down the court with four other players and throwing the ball to the open guy", he once said. Their partnership was based on teamwork with proceeds shared equally. There were no nameplates on doors, no formal titles, no individual agent client lists. Practices followed the company's two "commandments": Be a team player and promptly return phone calls. There was an endless stream of meetings and talk. Because of this, others sometimes referred to CAA agents as the "Moonies" of the business according to the authors of ''Hit and Run'',〔Griffin N, Masters K (1996) ''Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood.'' (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-684-83266-6)〕 the bestselling Hollywood insider account by Griffin and Masters. In the late 1980s, CAA's growing success enabled it to commission I. M. Pei to design a new headquarters building at the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevard In 2007, CAA relocated to a new headquarters building in Century City. Ovitz still owns the agency's former building, along with three of his former CAA colleagues—Universal Studios President Ron Meyer, producer Bill Haber and former Chief Financial Officer Robert Goldman.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creative Artists Agency」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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