UPDATED: CAA Signs More Morris Clients

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• Does this mean Randi Michel, Jenji’s high school friend and person who brought her to WMA years ago is out?

  Comment by louise does art — Wednesday June 10, 2009 @ 4:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• To be fair, all three had been William Morris clients; they were never WME clients. Their agents left or were dumped, so they exited for the CAA pastures.

  Still, wins for CAA, but doesn’t quite feel like a WME loss.

  Comment by Actually — Wednesday June 10, 2009 @ 5:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I can’t stand Aaron Kaplan. No one I know can. How and why does this guy get someone so talented like Darren Starr? Go figure.

  Comment by Confused — Wednesday June 10, 2009 @ 7:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hey, Confused… Maybe the reason someone like Darren Starr is with Aaron Kaplan is that he’s the kind of kick-ass agent who got Darren Starr to the point where he’s “Darren Starr”. You don’t have to be a lovable teddy bear to be a top-notch agent, you have to be hardworking, diligent, and not take any bullshit, which is the case with Kaplan.

  Comment by Justanobserver — Wednesday June 10, 2009 @ 9:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Love Jenji because she’s she’s adorable, cute and very funny.

  http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=jenji%20kohan&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday June 10, 2009 @ 9:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The remaining second class citizens of the former WMA are miserable. They have very little input into anything. The Endeavor guys continue to rule the roost. Ari is being Ari. Mean and rotten and still trying to put side deals together. Fogelman is being well John. He’s trying to be like Ari. Johnnnie it wont work.
  When is consulting going bye bye

  Comment by jimbocircus — Wednesday June 10, 2009 @ 10:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• News from the front line. John Ferriter starting to call people. John is on the mend and should be back in a few weeks. Sean Perry and John will never get along. Sean start looking around for a new home. Jill Smoller oh Jill Smoller nobody at Endeavor understands what you do. Dave will not be able to use you as his personal valet much longer. Has anyone heard anything about Irv. How can someone like him just vanish???? Moany more fires are just around the corner. Consulting and Miami

  Comment by mr Wiggles — Wednesday June 10, 2009 @ 10:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Losing Kohan is really not that big of a deal. Her new show didn’t get picked up at Showtime, and WMA barely made any money off of Weeds. Her old agent Scott Schwartz sold the show and got a full package. Since Schwartz works by himself(since no one will work with the miserable SOB)all that packaging money, which could be anywhere from 20-50 mil goes straight to his bank account. Kohan fired him after the first season after she figured out how much money he was really making off the show. I would also bet money that Schwartz has probably never even seen an episode of the show.

  Comment by Jason — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 1:33am PDT  Reply to this post

• That NYT article perfectly exposes Ari for what he is:

  An insecure guy who gets nervous when he speaks in public (because he wants it so bad), and who is just trying to keep up with his more talented and successful brother.

  This merger is going to be a trainwreck.

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 4:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• To: Justanobserver – Aaron Kaplan didn’t make Darren Star’s deal for SEX AND THE CITY – ICM did.

  And I think Darren Star and Arraon Kaplan deserve each other. Totally.

  Comment by marc — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 5:28am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hey Marc, you’re right. They do deserve each other — they’re both successful. And FYI, Darren’s big money didn’t come from SATC. It came from the big deal he’s got at Sony. Guess who got him that? That’s right, Aaron Kaplan.

  Comment by Justanobserver — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 10:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hey Observer – you want a pissing contest (and please Nikki print this) –
  they deserve each other because they both are similar. Darren ‘borrows’ ideas and Aaron ‘borrows’ clients. There does seem to be an overlap.

  Comment by marc — Friday June 12, 2009 @ 5:19am PDT  Reply to this post

• Justanobserver… ‘Darren’s big money didn’t come from SATC’… Hahaha. Dream… And when studios/producers are given a choice to work with a client repped by someone they like or one repped by an asshole, they usually go with the agent they like.

  Comment by Who are you fooling? — Friday June 12, 2009 @ 6:08pm PDT  Reply to this post

• A.Kaplan is a libra, which means he is one of the nicest people to work with. He gets the jobs done with out stepping on people. Stop judging someone you dont even know.

  Comment by jLizama — Saturday July 18, 2009 @ 2:26pm PDT  Reply to this post