Who You Have To Blow To Get A Comedy Made In This Town: A Venn Diagram
Stories of how crushed jilted UTA agent Nick Stevens was to discover that soulmate-client Jim Carrey defected to hated, baby-devouring rival CAA will probably continue to trickle in over the next few weeks, with new anecdotes of Carrey callously returning a once-cherished locket containing a tiny image of his beloved, longtime rep by mail, or of Stevens awaking in tears each morning after realizing that the days of Carrey rousing him with an ass-ventriloquism version of a reveille are over, freshly punctuating the sadness of a messy break-up. But business in Hollywood must carry on regardless of how many "Take me back! Love, Nick" Post-It love notes the star finds clinging to the windshield of his Range Rover, so today's NY Times does its part to illustrate the complicated realignment of comedy power following both the Carrey/Stevens divorce and that of Carrey's power-brokering managers, Jimmy Miller and Eric Gold in easy-to-understand, Venn diagram form. Mercifully, the Times refrained from including a circle depicting UTA clients poached by CAA, which would have done nothing but rub salt in the agency's still-suppurating wounds as it tries to come to terms with the end of the highly lucrative Carrey Era.
[Diagram: NY Times]