Ovitz Provokes Surface Indignation In Agent Community
Erstwhile superagent Mike Ovitz's testimony in The Hollywood Trial of the Century has provoked copy-friendly outrage within the highly-principled world of the talent representation community. Naturally, there's a delicate balance between "honesty" and an "extreme fear of defenestration."
"It sounds to me like Mike was running two separate businesses," says one top agent, who insisted on anonymity. "One to line his own pockets, and another that was just the general agency business. If I'd tried that, I'd have been thrown out of a window."
Given this novel form of ethical policing, we recommend that the next time you're walking along Wilshire Boulevard that you periodically look upwards to ensure that a morally compromised William Morris employee doesn't land on your head.