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Description:The unauthorized account of the rise and fall of Hollywood’s greatest talent agencyThe story of the William Morris Agency is the story of show business itself. For decades, hidden from the public eye, Morris agents made the deals that determined the fate of stars, studios, and television networks alike. Mae West, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand—the Morris Agency sold talent to anyone who would buy it, from the Hollywood moguls to the Madison Avenue admen who controlled television to the mobsters who ran Vegas. While the clients took the spotlight, the agency stayed behind the scenes, providing the grease that made show business what it’s become.But in the 1970s, when a key executive at the agency brutally sacrificed his own best friend—the man who’d brought Barry Diller and Michael Ovitz out of the mailroom—Morris gave birth to its own nemesis: Ovitz’s new shop, Creative Artists Agency. Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, as Morris made, and lost, such major stars as Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, and Julia Roberts, Ovitz’s power grew inexorably as Morris’s waned. Lulled by the phenomenal success of Bill Cosby on television and the upward spiral of the Beverly Hills real estate market, Morris’s board failed to act as death and defection thinned the agency’s ranks. Not even the last-minute hiring of the legendary Sue Mengers—“the superagent who ruled Hollywood with sex and booze,” as a New York Post headline once put it—was enough to revive the Morris office. Finally, with its flagship motion-picture department at the brink of collapse, Morris was faced with the stark reality of having to buy its way back into the business it once owned.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business. To get started finding The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The unauthorized account of the rise and fall of Hollywood’s greatest talent agencyThe story of the William Morris Agency is the story of show business itself. For decades, hidden from the public eye, Morris agents made the deals that determined the fate of stars, studios, and television networks alike. Mae West, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand—the Morris Agency sold talent to anyone who would buy it, from the Hollywood moguls to the Madison Avenue admen who controlled television to the mobsters who ran Vegas. While the clients took the spotlight, the agency stayed behind the scenes, providing the grease that made show business what it’s become.But in the 1970s, when a key executive at the agency brutally sacrificed his own best friend—the man who’d brought Barry Diller and Michael Ovitz out of the mailroom—Morris gave birth to its own nemesis: Ovitz’s new shop, Creative Artists Agency. Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, as Morris made, and lost, such major stars as Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, and Julia Roberts, Ovitz’s power grew inexorably as Morris’s waned. Lulled by the phenomenal success of Bill Cosby on television and the upward spiral of the Beverly Hills real estate market, Morris’s board failed to act as death and defection thinned the agency’s ranks. Not even the last-minute hiring of the legendary Sue Mengers—“the superagent who ruled Hollywood with sex and booze,” as a New York Post headline once put it—was enough to revive the Morris office. Finally, with its flagship motion-picture department at the brink of collapse, Morris was faced with the stark reality of having to buy its way back into the business it once owned.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business. To get started finding The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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