In Defense Of Agents In Hollywood
Jim Bishop argues agents are essential catalysts in film and literary careers. He recalls personal experience as a literary agent guiding writers like Nevil Shute and Dashiell Hammett, praising Lew Wasserman as an ideal agent while noting the market and industry pressures agents navigate.
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Kenneth Littauer
Nevil Shute
Dashiell Hammett
Irwin Shaw
Walter van Tilburg Clark
Mick
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Phyllis Jackson
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Miss Jackson
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Sion
Wasserman
Martin Jurow
Kay Brown
Hal Wallis
Herbert Rosenthal
Bullets Durgom
Jackie Gleason
Jack Webb
Lew Wasserman
Best Title of the Year and Onstage Raps
Fragmented passage describes a performer named Martin Van Buren as a onstage figure with offstage cautions. The text blends mock dialogue about talking and selling and an onstage moment with agents reading scripts and olives referenced in a nightclub setting.
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Martin van Buren
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