"We felt like 'that's it,' " said Ms. Gates, a longtime actors' agent and production manager for the Westport Arts Center.
He eventually made a swing of a vaudeville circuit and in 1908 entered a business association with Marty Forkins, actors' agent, who helped him to fame.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was revealed that the people doing this were government actors, agent provocateurs, doing this just so that they can claim, look, we can't have people with guns.
Ask anyone - actors, agents, lawyers, management even - we all know what's wrong with the business.
He said the script was being sent round "the firewall of actors' agents", though no casting had been confirmed.
Mr. Jenkins Mary Poppinsns," "Big River") and Mr. Stanton ("The Coast of Utopia") have created an outlandish backstage story full of eccentric characters: actors, parents of actors, agents, other miscellaneous oddballs.
Focus Features had finally greenlighted the film the day before, after six weeks of haggling with actors' agents over the lean fourteen-million-dollar budget.
Played by Brian Dennehy with his panache on automatic pilot, Mr. Silverman is portrayed as a crass autocrat who gleefully tramples the rights of actors, agents, producers and aides.
About 5,000 people use the archive each year, Ms. Corwin said, including actors, agents, casting directors, composers, critics, designers, fight directors, makeup artists, press agents, producers, choreographers and stage managers.
