Exclusive: Bill Cosby has signed with CAA, a move that ends a remarkable 48-year run at Wma and Wme. CAA will rep the iconic performer in all areas. Most of Cosby’s recent activity has been in performing up to 100 live shows each year, and writing bestselling books. So Wme’s loss here is mostly symbolic, but it is also an opportunity to note the 48 years he spent with former Wma head Norman Brokaw, who repped the groundbreaking comedian-turned-actor since the beginning of his career. In terms of length, the only star-rep relationships that come to mind as comparisons are Lenny Hirshan and Clint Eastwood, and Elvis Presley and Col. Tom Parker. Brokaw (who never retired, by the way) handled Cosby back when he became the first African American to star in a network TV series, joining Robert Culp in I Spy. Cosby won three Emmy Awards in a row.
- 10/26/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Bill Cosby has signed with CAA, a move that ends a remarkable 48-year run at Wma and Wme. CAA will rep the iconic performer in all areas. Most of Cosby’s recent activity has been in performing up to 100 live shows each year, and writing bestselling books. So Wme’s loss here is mostly symbolic, but it is also an opportunity to note the 48 years he spent with former Wma head Norman Brokaw, who repped the groundbreaking comedian-turned-actor since the beginning of his career. In terms of length, the only star-rep relationships that come to mind as comparisons are Lenny Hirshan and Clint Eastwood, and Elvis Presley and Col. Tom Parker. Brokaw (who never retired, by the way) handled Cosby back when he became the first African American to star in a network TV series, joining Robert Culp in I Spy. Cosby won three Emmy Awards in a row.
- 10/26/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The Talent Managers Association announced today that they will bestow the Seymour Heller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Management to Lenny Hirshan of Leonard Hirshan Management at the 11th Annual Heller Awards being held on October 2nd at the Universal Sheraton. Hirshan spent 50 years as an agent at the William Morris Agency and then left to form his own management company where he represented clients such as Sophia Loren, Angela Lansbury, Stu Rosenberg, and has served as the exclusive representative of longtime client Clint Eastwood. “I had no interest or intention to produce,” Hirshan has said in the past. “I am strictly a manager in the truest sense of the word.”...
- 9/28/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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