Transcript: Ari Golds of a New Hollywood

Agents and managers fight to join this generation's big power brokers

Sean McNulty (00:04):

Welcome to The Ankler Podcast. This is Sean McNulty from The Wakeup newsletter here at The Ankler on the afternoon of Thursday, January 18th, here in New York City. I am joined by Elaine Low in Los Angeles as Mr. Rushfield is, I think stuck in a snowbank somewhere in Park City, Utah. But he and Peter Kiefer are at Sundance, and we're going to check in with them later on. Elaine, you, Peter, Nicole and ESG all had pieces this week as part of The Ankler's look at the representation business in Hollywood, the managers to mail rooms to deal making and business affairs, and we're going to dive into all that as well. And Elaine, we now have an email address. Can you feel the excitement?

Elaine Low (00:43):

We do. Podcasts@theankler.com. Is that what it is?

Sean McNulty (00:48):

Yes. I feel like I'm back in my junior year of college, the excitement of getting an email address. But yes, you can contact us. That is podcasts plural at theankler.com. So you, dear Ankler podcast listeners can now reach us. We're going to look to hopefully introduce a 60 Minutes-style, but far more interesting listener mail section at some point on occasion. So fire away questions for the group or individually. If you have any burning Mission: Impossible questions for Elaine, she's here for it, I'm sure.

Elaine Low (01:17):

I'll tell you the best one. I'll rank them for you.

Sean McNulty (01:19):

Well, you told us the best one, but we can get your one through seven. So if you want Elaine's full one through seven of the Tom Cruise oeuvre Mission: Impossible, yeah, it's a whole podcast. Yes. All requests for Mission: Impossible podcast, you can send that to the email address as well. But again, any questions you'd like us to talk about here in the podcast, any feedback or just to say hello is always nice as well. Again, that's podcasts@theankler.com. All right, Elaine, a bit of a shorter week. We had Martin Luther King Day on Monday. Elaine, did you watch the Emmys and Critics Choice Awards to complete your January awards punch card or what?

Elaine Low (01:52):

I watched the entirety of the Emmys. I did not watch Critics Choice. Did you?

Sean McNulty (01:57):

No. I watched on Instagram as all my journalists and the critics friends were posting videos and photos behind famous people.

Elaine Low (02:05):

So you saw the backs of famous people heads in 30 second increments?

Sean McNulty (02:09):

Not with them, just be like, they're right here. And I'm like, yeah. That room was pretty hot though. A lot of people showed up for that, I will say.

Elaine Low (02:17):

Yeah. I mean, the Emmys, I feel like were really fun this year. More fun than the Golden Globes, which just aired about a week ago, which you kind of expect to be the looser ceremony, right. And actually I feel like everybody's getting back to work. Everybody's getting back into it after this really awful year last year, and people just looked like they were having a good time. And Anthony Anderson, very reliable host.

Sean McNulty (02:40):

That's great, yeah.

Elaine Low (02:41):

You had homages to all of these TV shows of years past, you had the Cheers reunion and Martin and Ally McBeal and Grey’s and all of these shows reuniting their cast. It felt like it was pretty effective. I don't know. What about you, Sean?

Sean McNulty (02:54):

The NFL game was great on ABC. Sorry, Emmys. I told them. I was upfront beforehand. I will not be watching the show. And as I wrote in The Wakeup, it couldn't be more emblematic that you could not stream the show. It was on Fox, so there's no streaming option outside of the bundle. So I would have happily done as I did with the Globes, a two-screen experience on my laptop and my TV. Have the football on the TV, but I couldn't do it. So I had to make my choices and good game.

Elaine Low (03:26):

Modern TV consumption.

Sean McNulty (03:27):

Yeah, it was a good game. So I couldn't turn the NFL off.

Elaine Low (03:28):

I was watching it from a hotel room in Miami waiting for the NATPE Conference to start the next day.

Sean McNulty (03:35):

Right. So you had some time on your hands.

Elaine Low (03:35):

So I was like a truly captive viewer for that.

Sean McNulty (03:37):

Yeah, you were. Exactly, yeah. You watched the whole show. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. I did see some clips. Anthony did a great job and really seemed to bring good spirit to that room. That's not, as we've seen, not the easiest job sometimes.

Elaine Low (03:50):

Oh, no.

Sean McNulty (03:51):

And that kind of a room. So yeah, unfortunately nobody watched it.