Only a big agent can sign a big star.
Since the Welles and Saroyan affairs, it has been practically impossible to interest a big agent in an intellectual giant.
Paul Kohner later became a big agent, representing John Huston, among others, and a lot of Europeans, like Ingmar Bergman and Max von Sydow.
As soon as any one of them gets good they leave him for a bigger agent, but he's incredibly loyal to them and he believes in them.
I told the woman who answered that I had a very big agent on the line who needed to speak to someone above her paygrade, essentially.
Most rent through small lettings agents, who are notorious for charging hefty fees of tenants, often on spurious grounds.Yet the market is at last adapting, says James Coghill, a director at Savills, a big estate agent.
Neal Hudson, an analyst at Savills, a big estate agent, estimates that there are almost 1.2m inefficiently used homes in London and the south-east alone.If old people could be persuaded to sell up, the young would benefit.
"I don't remember them giving four-, five- or six-year deals until they were in the World Series, and then they went out and signed a big free agent," Anthopoulos said.
The fallout was horrendous and it was a big Hollywood agent who will never work with us again and at the time I was just desperately trying to explain to someone, without sounding like a complete idiot, "I'm really sorry, no one told me how to do this".
Jesse Eisenberg plays a boychick from New York who tries his luck in L.A. too, working with his uncle Phil, a big time agent played by Steve Carell.
Readers would have had to slog through my shitty first draft (Anne Lamott's phrase, not mine) which I, demonstrating a combination of dazzling self-confidence and ignorance, sent to a big literary agent.
