When we discovered that almost nobody at the agency had a complete client list—save for Ovitz—we decided to pull one together. We had two reporters work on it for an entire year. When we published it, everyone in Hollywood was astonished. CAA represented every body. Ovitz had to shut the agency down for a week while the agents reached out to the clients, many of whom were upset. Dustin Hoffman was apparently ticked off that parts that he should have gotten went to Al Pacino and vice versa. A lot of the clients had no idea that their agents were handling that many people.
