Pat Kingsley: the most powerful unpowerful person in Hollywood?

On the eve of Pat Kingsley’s opening up shop in London, the Guardian runs a long Kingsley profile, detailing the history of her career and along with it, the development of the odd Hollywood mini-industry of celebrity handling. The overrarching question is, of course, does Kinglsey (and by extension, her colleagues in tinsel-spinning) shape, or react to, celebrity culture?

Pat Kingsley thinks people don’t read any more anyway. ‘You know,’ she says, ‘these days, television is basically what decides what’s going to be a hit movie.

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