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The Show Must Go On: In a thumbsucker about the after-effects of the Tom Cruise Affair, Claire Hoffman (who is still our hero) writes that the whole Paramount/CAA conflict will likely result in a lot of nothing. The studio needs the talent agency as much as the talent agency needs the studio — so don’t expect Brad Pitt and other CAA stars to refrain from doing business with Paramount out of some sort of actorly solidarity with Cruise.
One juicy morsel in the piece is buried toward the end:
“At the same time, Spielberg [who is both a CAA client and a Paramount employee] reportedly had been miffed by Cruise’s bombastic behavior during the promotion for War of the Worlds.
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