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Being a big-deal movie agent seems to have one career trajectory: to be a no-longer-a-big-deal movie agent with a lot of time on your hands.
With blue eyes, tousled sandy hair, a preference for casual dress, and a deep tan, he looks more like a movie agent than like a magnate.
When his voice mail told her he worked at International Creative Management, the entertainment agency, she told the tape that she couldn't get involved with a movie agent.
After a whirlwind promotional tour in the spring (Letterman, Ellen, CNN), he sued a lawyer and a movie agent, claiming they had signed him to an "unconscionable" contract.
His role in the forthcoming hitman movie Agent 47 was given to Rupert Friend, and he was replaced in romance The Best of Me by James Marsden.
Such is the moral of this film, run a close second by "Don't give a shit about anybody — be selfish," as delivered by Leah (Bette Midler), a trumpet-voiced movie agent.
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And here is a cluster of movie agents looking perhaps for things to cover the holes in their walls.
The Random House rights department, working in concert with Mr. Styron's agent, pitched the books to magazine editors, movie agents and foreign publishers.
Not that the 58-year-old Mr. Feld expects movie agents to sign up Harrison Ford to play him in, say, "Glitchfighter".
Unlike movie agenting, which has roiled and bubbled, book agenting has been somewhat resistant to change, some would say, although it is true that agents are more crucial to their clients than ever before: for one thing, the pinballing of editors from publishing house to publishing house means that the agent is often the only constant in the writer's professional life.
"The brain design of the movie agents focuses on how they will react to particular stimuli and situations, such as deflecting an incoming battle axe, and finding an enemy," says Ms Holland.The result is Massive Insight, a software package that makes it possible to create agents and program their behaviour preferences using simple graphical tools.
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