“It was like a palace of pitching. There’s never been any place like it.” An agent friend was describing the sprawling and frenetic Netflix reception lobby, which was an almost weekly destina…
Institutional rudeness is hardly a new phenomenon. Viacom’s former czar, Sumner Redstone, orchestrated famously tempestuous firings,. The legendary agent Sue Mengers was aggressively confrontational. “Your last movie sucked, but I have a job for you if you just shut up and do the work,” she told Peter Bogdanovich, a director client .
The volatility of the present job market, combined with tensions of inclusiveness, have intensified the strain on collegial behavior. “Every meeting feels like a writers room with tempers about to flare,” a producer told me. New rounds of layoffs are affecting not only studios and networks but also the agency business. Casualties of the CAA-ICM deal alone may initially total 105.
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