UPDATE: WSJ has swapped out the photo.
The once venerable Wall Street Journal needs to get a clue when it comes to reporting about Hollywood agents. Accompanying today’s story about WME’s ‘Camp Allen’-like conference which the agency held at La Costa Resort last month, is a Getty Images picture that’s identified as Ari Emanuel. But it’s not. I’ll let Deadline readers have fun, but betcha this is what Ari would look like if he were gentile. In fact WME is busily trying to find out who this guy really is because no one knows. (P.S. I didn’t write about the agency’s non-showbiz confab at the time because we’d had too many posts about WME in a row. Holler if you want to hear about it…)
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.


No thanks. I’d rather hear about what they’re going to do to get me staffed this year.
Another attempt by Ari to try and be taken seriously in the corporate world… All of those efforts have failed and he really needs to stick to packaging tv shows.
Looks like they fixed it – http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/02/16/ari-emanuel-hosts-a-brain-spa-for-his-agents/?mod=WSJBlog&mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_Speakeasy
“Gentile”? What’s up with all this religious profiling?
Yes. My thought too. The old “us” v. “them” from 2000 years ago. Always offended when I see it.
Nikki, you really have a crush on him don’t you? Sad.
And we all know what being a gentile in this business means..
Better stick to wall street where you belong!
They have come along way since the days of everyone smoking weed or partners insulting cocktail waitress’. Glad they have finally grown up.
Ari, and Irish Ari, Buzz cuts are out. You both look like 5th graders. You need to embrace the power quaf.
Just be happy they didn’t post a pic of Ari Gold.
Since it’s NewsCorp reporting, why didn’t they just hack Ari’s phone to get a picture?
They shoulda posted a pic of Sasha Bara Cohen. We wouldn’t have been able to tell the diff.
I like the photo of the Faux-Ari better, he’s way less orange looking and his skin is a color that actually exists in nature.
I love that WME thinks it’s so innovative bringing in leaders in other industries to speak to a panel of agents. It’s not innovative, it’s ripping the page out of the leadership book of every top business school in the country who bring in top leaders to speak to the students. Lets get some creativity WME!
Exactly… And like a bunch of dumb agents are gonna get anything out of it anyways.
Do you have a more innovative idea? Would love to hear it.
Actually it is pretty innovative compared to what the rest of the industry does, and trust falls don’t really resonate with this crowd. While they are taking themselves too seriously, at least they are trying to mix it up.
JC!!!… As in Jesus Christ. How much did all that cost WME???
was it really a smart decision to spend that much on a retreat with $30M on the real estate losses? This guy is bleeding money.
is that a Bachelorette contestant?
Really? Who do these agents think they are? You are just agents! Wake up! Get off your self-congratulating and back-patting asses and go get your clients jobs. You are a bunch of cliches. Wretched.