here are two more articles of note:
Masi Oka Next Likely Addressee Of Angry Open Letter From Part-Asian Actor Rob Schneider:
...It's not just critics who find themselves offended [by I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry], however: At a TCA week promotional party for NBC's fall slate, Heroes' teleporting office worker Masi Oka disapproved of Rob Schneider's turn as the fake-gay couple's slanty-eyed officiating officer...
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the next thing you know, they'll start asking for company cars:
Competing agencies scoff at CAA's surprisingly progressive program in which it pauses from scorching the bottoms of its assistants' feet with a hot fireplace poker long enough to allow them to pitch projects to clients (which recently resulted in a comedy sale to Imagine superproducer Brian Grazer), fearing that such humane shenanigans could interfere with the call-rollers' development into perfect killing machines.
It's referring to this article in The Hollywood Reporter: Assistants' pitches throw biz a curve, by Borys Kit and Tatiana Siegel.
Last month, Ben Dey, an assistant working in the mailroom at CAA, leaped several rungs on the Hollywood ladder by successfully pitching an idea for a comedy to producer Brian Grazer. The sale came about because the Imagine Entertainment executive visits CAA once a year for a lunchtime meeting in which he entertains assistants' pitches...
...At a number of agencies, employees are wondering why Grazer doesn't come to them for pitches or why their workplace doesn't have anything like the CAA program. Still other agencies question the wisdom of letting assistants pitch to producers and studios, in effect allowing call rollers and mailroom clerks to compete with its writer clients...
My favorite comment on Defamer comes from Nick R:
Ah, it's still hysterical to see "agent trainee programs" referred to so un-ironically. I wonder if that's how they roped people into chamber-pot service back in the middle ages. "Hey, would you like to get paid a few cents to dump out a rich person's sh-- I mean, would you be interested in joining our King Trainee Program?"
Reading is fun-damental!
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