What's Really Happening Inside Morris? Allegations Pouring In That Spew Hate; Motion Picture And...

2ND UPDATE: WMA is so sensitive to my publicity surrounding this wave of leavings and layoffs (see my previous, William Morris Starts Laying Off Agents... and Another Morris Talent Agent Departs; But One Talks His Way Back In) that it gave me info that was flat-out wrong. A Morris executive last night claimed to me that, since January 2007 and despite the writers strike, only 5 tenpercenters have departed Morris -- while, in the same period, double-digit numbers of agents have left CAA and ICM, and single-digit numbers of agents have exited UTA. But that's false. I've since discovered that a total 14 agents have exited WMA since January 2007 -- Holly Baril, Louise Ward, Ken Frieman, Teresa Peters, Jack Tantleff, Caroline Michel, Ed Bicknell, Jeff Kolodny, Marc Provissierro, Marcus Wiley, Kenny Goodman, Phil Alberstat, Scott... [read full story]