Like Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, they tended to be servile schleppers in bad suits, handlers whose role was to schmooze, and to soothe show-business egos.
Andrews, who worked on a new translation of the 1947 play with the writer Andrew Upton, is the kind of director actors are often drawn to — flashy "bad boy" handlers on the prowl for cultural relevance.
When I send a postcard through the U.S. mail, I'm aware in the abstract that mail handlers may be reading it, may be reading it aloud, may even be laughing at it, but I'm safe from all harm, unless, by sheer bad luck, the one handler in the country whom I actually know sees the postcard and slaps his forehead and says, "Oh, jeez, I know this guy".
Later, after a bad incident with an elephant handler, he turns rogue: terrified villagers call him the Gravedigger for the tender way in which he covers his victims' bodies with leaves.
"We did get up on one little tree back there once, but it wasn't too bad," said one volunteer dragon handler, Bill Bone, a trial lawyer from Palm Beach, Fla., just moments after navigating the balloon around the tricky turn into Columbus Circle.
BECAUSE YOU'VE READ THIS FAR - Here's a panda handler having a bad day.
People have suggested that James received bad advice from his many handlers, a charge leveled often at Rodriguez in 2008 after he signed his new Yankees contract and seemed to collect a new image consultant every week.
Thus handlers screen out bad news in order to sustain Trump's alternate reality.
Anyone already convinced he is a criminal is unable or unwilling to listen to an explanation, and I'm sure his handlers stressed how bad a short video clip of Canada's PM 'addressing his alleged crimes' would be.
PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments But in her haste to prevent the image of too much Hudson leg from searing itself into the eyes of the audience, Handler almost made a bad situation worse.
Taking responsibility is even more rare, with lawyers, coaches, and handlers prepared to rationalize bad behavior with a variety of excuses.
