Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rodman's agent says marriage is a sham; his client was inebriated at the nuptials...
...developer bought the park for $800,000 in a "sealed bid" process, meaning that bidders submitted concealed bids to the real estate agent, and the highest bidder got the property...
...coping too well." For almost a year, until she found teaching work, Rowling lived off public assistance. Every day, to escape her damp, unheated flat, she'd take the baby to the nearest cafe and write away, nursing a cup of coffee. In 1995, after she found an agent in a writers' directory, a British publisher offered her a tiny advance of around $4,000. "I'm lucky by anyone's standards, not just single-mother standards," Rowling says. "The crucial thing is, I had a talent you need no money to pursue...
Julia Stiles is a straight-A high school senior who just turned 18 two weeks ago. She has a publicist. She has an agent. She co-authored a script that's in rewrites, and she has the leading role in a studio film. All of which makes her remarkably similar to the 289,000 other adolescents currently jockeying to be Hollywood's next big thing. Surely you've noticed how each weekend brings scores of cheaply made movies packed with TV kids from the WB or Fox networks (see previous review). Stiles thinks it's unfair to stereotype the genre...
...SHOOK UP SUPPORT TEAM: The new Ovitzian model of Hollywood calls for dropping your agent in exchange for a manager. Stiles did the opposite. "Having a manager is sort of superfluous and redundant," she says. "My agent and publicist are doing a fine job, and I didn't feel like paying somebody else 10% to do nothing." Stiles' former manager refused comment, other than to say that he lined up her last three projects, including 10 Things...