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Today's LAT says that Hollywood's efforts to offer disaster relief are getting off to a disorganized start, but it's obvious that the tsunami's devastation has touched the entertainment industry in the soft places it didn't even knew it had. Look, even agents are suddenly growing hearts:

One TV agent who was in Thailand during the disaster has told friends to send relief checks made out directly to him, which he says he will disburse when he returns to the country. "For obvious reasons, this is not tax-deductible," Paul Alan Smith, an agent at the Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann Agency, wrote in an e-mail. "Rest [assured], I will document everything scrupulously." (Smith confirmed in a phone interview that he wrote the e-mail.)

Smith might sound a little defensive about his fund-raising, but it's justified. (Checks made out directly to an agent? The ten-percent jokes write themselves.) At a time when Hollywood is banding together to allay international suffering, there's no room for your ugly and misguided skepticism. Shame on you if your first reaction was to think that an agent would take the money and build his own Xanadu in the jungles of Thailand. You're sick, all of you!