WH State Dinner: Beyoncé Performing But No Hollywood Bigshots Attending This Time

COMMENTS (9)

• Wow. Haubegger will have to take the afternoon off from not making any money for Kevin to attend. What a joke.

  Comment by Eddie — Wednesday May 19, 2010 @ 4:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Eddie you beat me to the punch. Funny and true

  Comment by Funion — Wednesday May 19, 2010 @ 5:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki, I’m not sure why you chose to single out Christy’s invite specifically but she was chosen as a White House fellow by President Obama so if she wanted to attend, it wouldn’t be an issue.

  And as for you Eddie, you sound like a jealous twirp who has no idea what she means to CAA but here is a clue. She is invaluable to the agency on multiple levels and if she chose to open her own agency or become a manager, she would take multiple clients with her. She is brilliant, hard-working and relentless. You are a jealous punk whom I would like to squash. Oh wait, I just did.

  Comment by George L — Wednesday May 19, 2010 @ 5:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I do licensing deals with celebs and I’ve pitched CAA clients a dozen times. It’s never as awkward as when Christy is in the room, which she inevitably is when the client is latin. Eddie’s comments are a little harsh and I don’t know anything about her billings but I can tell you that, in a building of self-importance, she is the most self-important agent I have ever met. There is not a topic about which she does not declare herself an authority or a relationship she does not claim to have. I must say, her follow-up was impressive but it’s as though she is a walking power point presentation. There is no human being there. Anyway, good for her for scoring a White House invite. I’m sure she’ll have a few pointers for the chef. And the social secretary. And the President.

  Comment by Kris — Wednesday May 19, 2010 @ 8:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Gosh! I LOVE GEORGE LOPEZ!!!!

  Comment by Susan — Wednesday May 19, 2010 @ 8:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Haubeggar is awful. CAA feels like it’s filling its PC minority quota by hiring her, and people are scared of being hit with discrimination allegations if they diss her. Her only strength is playing her latina card. People have hired her as a consultant before she worked for CAA thinking she could tap into the Latin audience, but they would have been better off hiring Charo.

  Comment by Mick — Wednesday May 19, 2010 @ 11:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• show me a dime that Christy’s brought into CAA and you can ride my unicorn to visit my leprechaun.

  Comment by elliott — Thursday May 20, 2010 @ 12:09am PDT  Reply to this post

• I get what Kris is saying but Elliot + Eddie sound a lot alike. I also had meetings with Ms. Haubegger and wondered how she could possibly know so much about everything. When we met with CAA for representation, I asked our signing agent about her. His response was “because she is always prepared and we pay her to be so. The clients she services have never been happier and while she doesn’t represent anyone directly, she makes our jobs easier.”

  People may not like her personality or assume she is there because she is Mexican-American but the facts are she is a Stanford law school grad who started her own magazine at 28 yrs old and she is relentless. We have worked with her for 3 years now and I told him the other day, “you were right, she has made my life easier.”

  Comment by Maria — Thursday May 20, 2010 @ 10:28am PDT  Reply to this post

• wow. i’ve worked with christy in the past (but don’t anymore) and i haven’t spoken to her in ages. but, i’m inclined to post a response since these comments seem so particularly mean-spirited as well as just wrong. she rocks. and she’s impressed me every minute i’ve spent with her. she’s truly one of the hardest working, most sincere people i know.

  Comment by catherine — Thursday May 20, 2010 @ 8:16pm PDT  Reply to this post