Word: janklow
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Since the number of authors who can deliver blockbusters is limited, literary agents have amassed unprecedented clout. One of the most powerful is Manhattan's Morton Janklow, whose literary agency represents such hugely commercial writers as Sidney Sheldon and Jackie Collins. Janklow boasts that since 1981, when the Hearst Corp. bought the publishing house of William Morrow for $25 million, he has closed three deals with individual authors that were each in excess of that amount. Naturally, the agents are fanning the bidding frenzy. Says Evans: "It used to be you would see if there was substance to a book...
...stirring up so much bile in the publishing industry? "He's probably the most dishonest agent in the business," claims Scott Meredith, who is Norman Mailer's agent. "Wylie is to the literary business what Roy Cohn was to the legal business," snipes superagent Morton Janklow. "A sociopath," says Daphne Merkin, associate publisher at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...industry's top snob, Wylie makes it his duty to malign agents who represent books he considers vulgar. He has called Janklow the literary equivalent of a heroin dealer for handling novels by authors like Judith Krantz. "They have no lasting value and two years after they've been published are worth nothing," he says with a Grottlesex stammer...
Since stories are the indispensable raw material of show business, CAA has built a development department that generates ideas for its clients. Ovitz has cultivated close ties with Manhattan gliterary agent Morton Janklow, who represents such best-selling authors s Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins. That collaboration has produced some 100 hours of network mini-series. Now Ovitz hopes to work an even richer literary vein. In December Janklow announced a surprise merger with longtime ICM literary agent Lynn Nesbit, whose clients include Tom Wolfe, Ann Beattie and Michael Crichton. According to sources close to the negotiations...
...slashing Proposition 13 and triggered a national tax revolt. Pollster Mervin Field has found that while opinion still runs against any general tax increase, 7 out of 10 Californians would support higher taxes for specific programs -- even efforts for the homeless. South Dakota's former Republican Governor William Janklow, a populist proponent of earmarking, explains, "People know that if they just trust the money to government, it's going to suck it up like an amoeba, leaving them nothing to show for it. So now people are saying, 'It's our money, and we'll tell you what...