"Entourage's" Ari Gold is obviously a caricature of Endeavor's Ari Emanuel, but having been out to lunch with the real Ari several times, I often came away with the feeling that the real Ari--the brash, endlessly competitive and bravado-filled Hollywood agent provocateur extraordinaire--is a caricature too. So let's give credit to Charlie Rose (who can be something of an all-too-talkative talk-show host caricature himself) for offering us a glimpse of the amazing Emanuel family Monday night. (It took a while for a link to the show to appear--if the video above doesn't work, trying going here to watch.)

To see the three Emanuel brothers around the same table--telling tales, laughing, finishing each other's sentences and reliving old arguments--was like seeing a new chapter of Neil Gabler's "Empire of Their Own'' come to life. Rose gave everyone a chance to talk, eldest brother Ezekiel (top-flight oncologist, bio-ethicist and author of a new text, "Healthcare Guaranteed") giving way to middle-son Rahm (former Clinton operative turned Illinois congressman and chair of the Democratic House Caucus) followed by baby brother Ari, whose smarts and hustle have helped make Endeavor into Hollywood's No. 2 talent agency, behind CAA.

If Ari is ever having trouble pitching a new film, he should try selling the story of his own family, which offers a compelling modern-day twist on the fabled Jewish immigrant success story. The three brothers' (they also have a sister) grandfather was a union organizer who built a synagogue with his own hands. Their father, a talented doctor in his own right, emigrated to Chicago from Israel in 1959 and led an early campaign to get lead paint out of inner-city tenement housing. Their mother was an ardent civil rights activist.

When Rahm and Ari were boys, they had to share a room because their mother had brought in a foster brother, who needed a room to himself. As this exchange from the show attests, they were taught not to just talk the talk, but walk the walk.