Sue Mengers Biographer Talks Barbra Streisand Feud, Wild Personality

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,...