Before there was Ovitz or Ari, there was Sue Mengers. During the peak of her clout in the 1970s, the brash barrier-breaker helped popularize the idea of the Hollywood super agent. The media lapped up her comic crudity (After the Manson family murdered actress Sharon Tate, she told a frightened Barbra Streisand, “don’t worry, honey,...
Before there was Ovitz or Ari, there was Sue Mengers. During the peak of her clout in the 1970s, the brash barrier-breaker helped popularize the idea of the Hollywood super agent. The media lapped up her comic crudity (After the Manson family murdered actress Sharon Tate, she told a frightened Barbra Streisand, “don’t worry, honey,...
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