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- THE WEEK, Page 19BUSINESSThe 10%ers Solution
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- In a major realignment, Hollywood's talent agents play musical
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- Did you hear about Elvis? He's hired the William Morris Agency
- -- too many people know where he is.
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- That aging barb about the venerable Hollywood talent
- agency and its notoriously low profile may no longer apply. In
- purchasing the smaller, hipper and younger Triad agency, with
- 50 agents and its own show-biz clients, the Morris agency pulled
- off a snazzy triple play. With new talent such as screen stud
- Bruce Willis and hot-shot musicians Pearl Jam and the Red Hot
- Chili Peppers, Morris instantly juices up its soft film and
- music divisions, raises its celebrity quotient and
- re-establishes its place on the top tier of Tinseltown's talent
- brokers, along with International Creative Management (which
- represents Eddie Murphy) and Creative Artists Agency (Kevin
- Costner, Tom Cruise). In the recession-stalked entertainment
- business, the deal not only made sense but dollars too. Says
- Triad partner Peter Grosslight: "In this competitive
- environment, it's the larger agencies that are going to do the
- best."
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