Ari Emanuel Miffed At Brian Williams For Rock Center Interview
By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 25, 2013 10:20PM
Mayor Rahm Emanuel appeared on NBC’s news program Rock Center Friday night with brothers Ari (co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor) and Ezekiel (noted bioethicist) ostensibly to discuss big brother Zeke’s biography about him and his equally overachieving brothers, Brothers Emanuel: A Portrait of an American Family.
For all intents, it was a softball interview (we’ve embedded the segment below) but not soft enough for youngest brother Ari, who fired off a tersely worded letter to NBC accusing host Brian Williams of setting them up with questions about the Emanuel family’s ties to Israel and Ari Emanuel’s reputation as a hypercompetitive Hollywood agent, instead of simply focusing on promoting the book.
Toward the end of the segment Williams, in a voice-over, talks of how the Emanuels “do not suffer from self-doubt, at least not outwardly, they do not suffer fools gladly and, as we learned, they don't love being challenged or prodded. Ari's facial expressions speak volumes when the conversation turned to his scorched earth reputation in Hollywood.” Ari Emanuel said he’s in a good place in his life, but his facial expressions indicated he wanted to rip off Williams’s head.
Yes, how dare Brian Williams ask a noted uber-aggressive talent agent about his reputation while he and his uber-aggressive politician brother help their uber-aggressive bioethicist brother promote a book about how they’re all uber-aggressive. Besides, it isn’t as though Williams took the opportunity to ask Rahm Emanuel about Chicago’s murder rate.
Ari Emanuel, according to the New York Post, had words with NBC Chief Executive Steve Burke while at 30 Rock for the Justin Timberlake-hosted Saturday Night Live. NBC confirmed the letter to The Hollywood Reporter and said in a statement, "We hope viewers saw the interview as a lively conversation with three famously colorful brothers who embody a great American story of success."
Hug it out, bitches.
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