Ari Emanuel is hitting the road to promote his upcoming memoir. Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Super-agent Ari Emanuel is hitting the road to promote his upcoming tell-all, “Roll the Calls,” with appearances in Chicago, NYC and LA.
The chats — being referred to as “three tentpole events” to promote the Knopf tome — include a Q&A with lefty MS Now news anchor Rachel Maddow at the 92nd Street Y on the day the books comes out (Sept. 22).
Emanuel will follow that up with a talk on Sept. 23 at the Harris Theater in Chicago with David Axelrod, (the CNN pundit and former senior advisor to President Obama).
And on Sept. 29, the executive chairman of WME Group will appear at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre back in Los Angeles chatting with podcaster Kara Swisher.
Tickets are on sale with support from TodayTix, the platform owned by Emanuel’s current company, MARI — which is also behind such live events as the Frieze art fairs, the Armory Show and the US Open of Surfing. (Tickets are going for $75 a pop.)
Meanwhile, some Hollywood types are on edge awaiting the book’s release.
Emanuel was one of “Hollywood’s most accomplished, feared — and funny — dealmakers,” according to advanced press for the tome, and Knopf is billing it as a “take-no-prisoners memoir” in which “Emanuel tells the incredible stories behind the signings and firings, the triumphant mergers and nasty breakups, the hard-won victories and crushing mistakes.”
Emanuel has repped famous clients including Larry David, Quentin Tarantino, Denzel Washington, Billie Eilish, Martin Scorsese and Oprah Winfrey.
His book has blurbs by Rick Ruben, Swisher and Ariana Huffington among others.
