The Article Burning Up Talent Agency Fax Machines...If Agents Still Used Faxes

Ye gads! The pole at NBC television has never been so greasy! We at Fishbowl crave some digital Purell - pronto!

I just hung up with a top agent at CAA, and all he or anyone with a black BMW and dinner reservation at Koi can talk about is the new Kurt Andersen piece in New York magazine.

It’s all about the endorphin-rich days of NBC TV netork capo Jeff Zucker, and how Zucker is deftly trying to remove the little laser-red dot on his forehead (emanating brightly from Jeffrey Immelt’s Parker Hale Model 85 sniper rifle) – and perhaps (talent agents I spoke with muse) – guide it instead onto the chalk-striped suit-back of NBC chairman Bob Wright.

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