The Agent Dance: The New Agent-Dumping Hotness
Following agent Steve Dontanville's "abdication of the queen's throne" (queen imagery his, not ours) at William Morris last week, perky superstar Reese Witherspoon has canned the agency. (It must be such a relief for the WMA gang to have someone fire them for non-magazine related reasons! Do you think they had cake?) Witherspoon's on the cutting edge of the new, agent-dumping hotness, in which stars dismiss their reps without lacerating themselves and submerging their bloody bodies into another ten-percent shark tank. Trailblazing daredevils such as Bruce Willis (CAA), Ice Cube (same), and Halle Berry (WMA) have all recently jettisoned their extraneous agent cargo, bravely making a go of their careers with a tiny support system of managers, lawyers, and publicists. They are heroes for a new era—at least until they give up and sign with ICM or Endeavor...or go running back to their old shops for some sloppy make-up sex.