I’m hearing that 4 agents got the ax today — Glenn Bickel, Tracey Murray and Catherine Stellin in CAA’s TV lit department, as well as TV talent agent Steve Tellez.
CAA Bloodbath: Now In TV Department
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Were these agents just not covering their own overhead or what?
Please say it isn’t so about Steve Tellez. He’s one of the truly good guys and the only person I liked at that whole agency. The good thing is he will have multiple offers within days.
I hope they didn’t valet their cars!
Tellez and Glenn are shockers. They’ll surface somewhere else — wonder who they’re bringing with them?
Who the fuck are they?
Two of the four fired were women and yet women don’t make up nearly fifty percent of all CAA agents. The disproportial firings of women in an economic downturn is real.
What goes around, comes around…Cliché, but true.
Wow, shocked to hear Glenn Bickel got the ax.
I know about two of these guys, Glen Bickle and Steve Tellez. They are good, intelligent, kind men and I agree, their clients will go with them. Looks like CAA – the death star – is trying to purge any last vesitages of humanity. It will come back around on them.
No one can afford them. They have been such big players with BIG salaries for so long.
Tough time for these big names to make demands at another agency. Most of their clients are under contract for months and years to come. So commissions will be tough to collect considering those agency papers back at CAA.
Anonymous,
That may be true for MOST CAA agents but not Glenn Bickel or Steve Tellez. I’m not crying over Tracey Murray but don’t wish her ill will either. These three are genuinely okay people and better than most of their CAA counterparts. They’ll be fine in whatever they do next, they are liked by many.
I remember Steve Tellez from back at APA. Great guy. APA would be lucky to have him back.
Maybe NOW CAA will begin to realize that it’s not an agencies star roster that makes it the most powerful. Maybe it did in the 90’s.
When Endeavor and WMA pair up these layoffs will look miniscule in size compared to what CAA’s got coming to them.
And Gender Studies, take your bullshit elsewhere. You’re on the wrong board.
This is officially a depression not a recession…hopefully these people never wronged any of you personally, if so, let’s hear it, but if not, its just a fucking bummer. Tellez is a good agent, and I worked with Murray years ago…good agent, great lady. I hope everyone lands on their feet…
Tellez is a nice guy. Murray is nuts.
I know Tracey and Glenn well, and both are smart, kind, and deserve better. It’s clear most of the people on this board don’t actually know the people they snark about. These two are good ones, and will land on their feet.
I must agree with nyguy. Steve Tellez is a great guy and I’m sorry he’s been caught up in the economic pinch. But he’ll land on his feet somewhere else soon enough.
BTW, he’s a great guitar player, too.
Steve and Glenn are great guys, I truly enjoyed working with and around them when I was an assistant there a few years back…Good luck guys!
CAA has a TV lit dept?
Steve was a great guy…CAA will miss him.
Two of the four fired were women and yet women don’t make up nearly fifty percent of all CAA agents. The disproportial firings of women in an economic downturn is real.
Yes, except for the fact that every report released on the current recession shows that more men are losing their jobs than women, and that before the economy turns around women will actually outnumber men in the workplace.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Or, to put it a simpler way, you = FAIL.
CAA just reaping what they sow.
Dumbasses.
Yes, women do bear a disproportionate number of the layoffs. Unfortunately, as I have found all too true, if a woman complains about it (“bitches”) she will hurt her ability to get hired in this man’s culture of Hollywood…
Glenn! Grab that old CAA card table and set up shop! Doesn’t matter where! I have a project for you!
is this a sign that CAA is really hurting or are they using the recession to shed some dead weight? if the latter is the case, there are certainly a lot junior agents (with almost no clients of their own) floating around that place… why let the agents who actually bring revenue to CAA go? someone explain this to me…