CAA Promotes 4 Trainees to Agents, Executives

CAA has promoted two trainees to executives and two to agents, the agency announced on Tuesday.

Barry Clarke and Melissa Lee were named executives in CAA Sports Consulting. Based out of New York, the duo join a team which oversees sponsorship rights deals on behalf of over 30 global sports brands.

Darren Gee has been promoted to agent in CAA Sports’ Basketball group, which represents more than three dozen All-Star and emerging NBA players. Gee is based out of New Jersey.

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Tori Wechsler has been upped agent in the Digital Talent and Packaging group, where she works with the agency’s clients as they seek partnerships with digital distributors, new media platforms, and advertisers. She is based in Los Angeles.

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As the captains of entertainment, sports, politics and fashion converge at Bouchon in Beverly Hills before the Emmy Awards, CAA is the straw that stirs the drink. With "Big Little Lies" scoring big in nominations, leads Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern favored heavily into the social equation.
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Andy Cohen, horror tycoon Jason Blum and Seth Meyers
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Viola Davis and Ryan Murphy

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Present and future political power on display: Antonio Villaraigosa and Senator Barbara Boxer claim some choice real estate.
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Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade
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Sarah Paulson, Andy Garcia and Daniella Garcia-Lorido
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Colin Jost and most definitely not Scarlett Johansson. That's SNL producer Erin Doyle.

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For Tom Ford (with Stanley Tucci), fashion week is every week.
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Matthew DelPiano, Kevin Huvane, Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin
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The happy couple: Emmy Rossum and her husband Sam Esmail, who created "Mr. Robot"
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Robin Tunney and Shiri Appleby
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Dame Helen Mirren and Geoffrey Rush. (Mirren is one of only three actresses to win a Golden Globe, an Oscar and an Emmy in the same year.)
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On the way to milestone wins for "The Handmaid's Tale," Alexis Bledel hung out with one of the party hosts, Adam Berkowitz.
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Here comes the "Big Little Lies" gang -- Laura Dern, David E. Kelley and Reese Witherspoon -- and Ava DuVernay.
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Don't forget to eat. It's a misdemeanor to skip the eats at Bouchon. "Atlanta" star Brian Tyree Henry powered up. Later on Friday, his table at the EW party had all the social gravity, with Sterling K.Brown coming by to hang poolside.
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Max Winkler and Zoey Deutch know the rules
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Reese Witherspoon greets the chef, Thomas Keller
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CAA's Richard Lovett, Dern, Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth
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Adam Sanderson and Discovery/Animal Planet/Science Channel chief Rich Ross
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Cohen, Bob Greenblatt and Bryan Lourd
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A lot of cable business could flow between this group: Bryan Lourd, Bonnie Hammer and Adam Berkowitz.
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Garcia, Huvane and Jerry Bruckheimer, who could win another Emmy for "The Amazing Race" on Sunday night.
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Always a bon vivant, Common made the scene.
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Dern and Kevin Bacon
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Geoffrey Rush is nominated for Lead Actor in a limited series for "Genius" and, by all photographic accounts, looks like he had a blast at the soiree.
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When the "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Family Guy" and "Ted" universes collide, you get J.J. Abrams and Seth MacFarlane. Pray for a collaboration.

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As the captains of entertainment, sports, politics and fashion converge in Beverly Hills before the Emmy Awards, CAA is the straw that stirs the drink

As the captains of entertainment, sports, politics and fashion converge at Bouchon in Beverly Hills before the Emmy Awards, CAA is the straw that stirs the drink. With "Big Little Lies" scoring big in nominations, leads Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern favored heavily into the social equation.

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