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The one-time vaudeville booker who became the agent for Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Barbra Streisand and other stars died of lung cancer Tuesday at home in Beverly Hills. Fields was "considered the Michael Ovitz of his era," Robert Welkos writes in the L.A. Times. In 1960 Fields and David Begelman formed Creative Management Associates, the forerunner of today's International Creative Management. Fields also headed production at MGM and United Artists and produced Glory, the 1989 Civil War story. LAT web story
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