Trick or Treat
This week had surprises for Hollywood
About why the 55-year-old Tellem wants out, an insider says, “She’s just done. She’s thinking about what the next chapter is for her life.”
If she’s not replaced, that leaves questions about who will succeed the 60-year-old Moonves because Wall Street doesn’t like its publicly traded corporations to lack an heir apparent. Along with ABC’s Anne Sweeney, Tellem has long been at the top among female executives in the television community and is one of the best. Throughout her more than 25 years in the small-screen biz, she has worked alongside Moonves. Relationships like that just don’t happen very often in Hollywood. Moonves and Tellem may talk by phone two or three times a day, and after so many years together, they don’t hold back. “We yell and we scream at each other, but when that’s over, she’s family,” Moonves has said.
ARI GETS HIS WAY, AGAIN
First I reported that Ari Emanuel rejected the global architecture firm Gensler, which the William Morris Agency originally hired to develop its new Beverly Hills headquarters. The problem was that Gensler designed rival CAA’s current space and Emanuel hated it. (“I heard CAA is trying for some ... white-leather, Gucci-style, 1970s grandeur over there,” Emanuel dissed CAA’s headquarters.) He convinced the Morris bigwigs that “there are better architects out there.” But now I can confirm that the merged William Morris/Endeavor (WME) won’t move into the building at all. It has to do with competitor The Gersh Agency, which in July left Beverly Hills’ Canon Drive and moved to 9465 Wilshire Blvd. That’s just 50 feet from the site of the new WME headquarters in a six-story “green” building going up at 231-265 N. Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills. The two agencies would have shared valet-parking services and a parking lot.
God forbid! So WME decided the situation was a lease deal breaker. (Both the new Gersh digs, and the new WME digs, are in buildings owned by the same company, George Comfort and Sons.) Not to worry: WME won’t be homeless. It will move entirely into the Endeavor headquarters at 9601 Wilshire Blvd. and find space there to expand, if necessary.
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