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However, when the powerful director Mike Nichols (who, at 61, epitomizes a certain Manhattan strain of cool, cerebral show-business class) dumps his long-time agent, the legendary Sam Cohn (who, at 64, epitomizes a certain Manhattan strain of cerebral, relentlessly colorful show-business class) in favor of the powerful Creative Artists Agency wunderkind Jay Maloney (who, at 28 -- 28! -- epitomizes a certain L.A. strain of clear-headed, buttoned-down, reassuringly colorless show-business class), the switch seems emblematic of larger, longer-running shifts in the way movies and plays get produced...
...ostentatious snobbery (he slags Hollywood at every opportunity) and quirks (he eats paper, he doesn't return phone calls) have been finally more self-defeating than charming. And while talented performers and directors can ^ remain willfully removed from the West L.A. schmoozathon, in this day and age an agent really cannot...
...earn it off pleasant trifles like Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle and Manhattan Murder Mystery -- in which the main characters are habitues of Elaine's, Woody's Upper East Side hangout that was the hottest restaurant on earth during exactly the period when Sam Cohn was the hottest agent. The glorious moment for a certain cliquishly upper-middle-brow Manhattan high life -- back when Saturday Night Live and Vanity Fair were brand new, back before AIDS and Soon-Yi -- has passed...
...agents were in touch with him as early as 1991. But they did not know if they could trust him: some feared he was an Egyptian intelligence agent pursuing an agenda that was not Washington's. They recruited him as a full- time informer only after the Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center, when they desperately needed someone inside an Islamic radical group. Then he annoyed them by tape recording conversations with his FBI contacts as well as with alleged terrorists. One federal agent calls Salem "a pain...
Eager to quell speculation about the death of reported CIA agent Fred Woodruff, officials in the Republic of Georgia say he was killed when a soldier, refused a lift, fired once at the car Woodruff was riding in as it passed...