Category: LA Agent | Slomo

  • “Get outa here!” (A Festival with my LA Agent)

    The agent told me he was ‘astonished by the s—yness’ of a screenplay I wrote. So I entered it in a festival. It did well. Now, he told me I’d misunderstood. He loved it. He asked me if I was…

  • ‘Let It Snow’ in LA (A Party with my LA Agent)

    My agent threw a holiday party.  He told me there would be ‘performances.’  I wasn’t sure what that meant. The party was held in a stately house in the Hollywood Hills.   There was a balcony overlooking the city lights…

  • “You called me!” (A Conversation with my LA Agent)

    My agent was short and well-connected.  He was bald, badly-dressed and had a Napoleonic complex larger than Toulouse.  He scared off a lot of writers. “That’s s—,” being his favorite assessment of anyone’s work or ideas. For some reason, I…