Living the Life
Andrew O’Hagan, 6 October 2016
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency
by James Andrew Miller.
Custom House, 703 pp., £20, August 2016,978 0 06 244137 9 Show More
by James Andrew Miller.
Custom House, 703 pp., £20, August 2016,
“... to the William Morris Agency. Standing in his office are Jerry and Joe – Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis – a bass and a saxophone player. Jerry tries to persuade Poliakoff to give them the job – three weeks in Florida with Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators – but Poliakoff tells them to beat it, they require female musicians. ‘Look, if William ... ”