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William Morris Endeavor Assistants Now Being Paid Like Babysitters
2:44PM the cajun boy | So you wanna be a hotshot agent like Ari on that horrible Entourage show? Well, you’ll probably have to start out as an assistant, which means you’d better have a trust fund or an insatiable fondness for ramen noodles. More »
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Conde Nast Pits Lowly Assistants Against One Another
2:23AM Hamilton Nolan | The management at Conde Nast is well aware that lowly assistants—who are paid poverty wages in order to take order from high-strung self-important media assholes in $US8,000 outfits all day—could snap at any time. Solution: divide, conquer. More »
People
Assistant Sadness: The William Morris-Endeavor Merger
6:30AM Foster Kamer | Two of the world’s largest, most storied baby-eating factories talent agencies in the world are merging. But sometimes, in order to birth a monster, the assistants must suffer. We have a few firsthand accounts. More »
Achieve Your Dream Of Picking Up Some Asshole’s Dog’s Dry Cleaning Via The UTA Job List Blog
8:32AM Seth | For many just starting out in Hollywood, the journey begins somewhat inauspiciously at the UTA job list: It’s a precious catalog of the latest assistant openings, hand-lettered on babyskin parchment scrolls, sealed in scarlet wax pressed in the agency’s pregnancy-test-reminiscent logo, and handed off at twilight between cloaked agency footmen on foggy stretches of Pico Blvd. But you’re in luck, because now it’s also a blog! Let’s see what the assistant-needy are looking for today: More »
Anonymous Celebrity Seeking Personal Assistant to Get Directions, Wash Car, Chew Food…
2:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Give your notice! Get your resumes polished! A caps-lock challenged “A-list CELEBRITY MUSICIAN/ACTOR” is making the HR rounds this week, in search of a personal assistant who stands to gain lucratively ($1,000/week! Net!) for doing everything but tucking our anonymous prima donna into lavender-scented slumber every night — though we presume that’s not far behind. Follow the jump for some of the criteria you need to make this thankless gig your own. More »
UTA’s Assistant-Dehumanization Campaign Surprisingly Unpopular With UTA Assistants
7:10AM Seth | We turn now to the toiling assistant underclass, thanklessly shoveling call-rolling coal into the giant furnaces of the majestic agenting ships that dominate the Hollywood seas. (Forgive us. We’re tired and all we can manage are Titanic-inspired metaphors right now.) Sadly, it’s news of yet another dehumanizing blow to their ranks, as UTA higher-ups circulated a memo today informing assistants they would no longer have e-mail addresses using their own names. Instead, their new e-mail addresses would reflect their parasitic dependency on their desk-lamp-launching host-agents. The memo: More »
Fox Preparing For Possible Strike By Pissing Off Its Assistants
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | As we all await the dread-inducing tolling of the bell atop WGA headquarters that will indicate the union has received strike authorisation from its membership, it seems like a good time consider the effect that the looming work stoppage is already having on the call-rolling underclass that allows the town to function. Over at Fishbowl LA, a disgruntled employee laments that Fox has decided to cut back on assistant overtime to help lessen the financial burden of a strike while leaving their bosses’ expense accounts untouched: So this week they cut overtime at Fox for Assistants. I think that’s BULL FUCKING SHIT. They say it’s a cost cutting measure in anticipation of the strike. [...] More »
Firm Helps Hollywood Assistants Smoke Away The Pain Of Paying Their Dues
7:10AM Defamer Hollywood | From the pages of today’s THR, the compassionate folks at MediCann reach out to those most desperately in need of their medical marijuana-related services: industry assistants, whose stressful, abuse-marred lives could be marginally enhanced by some legal hash pills, a quick nibble of a special brownie, or a more traditional puff of a smoke-break joint. Like “Abby,” any anxiety-plagued call-roller who accepts the firm’s assistance will soon find him or herself free of the debilitating panic attacks often associated with indentured Hollywood servitude, numbing themselves to both the physical and psychological pain caused by those Blackberry-shaped “anythings” their bosses throw at them. [Ad via THR Digital Edition] MediCann [medicann.com] More »
Innovative Assistants Get Their Health Coverage Back
2:32AM Defamer Hollywood | The free bagels enjoyed each Wednesday by Innovative Artists’ overworked, undercompensated, and recently uninsured assistants will be slathered with the delicious schmear of victory this morning, as Variety is reporting that agency president Scott Harris has recanted his belief that benefits were being wasted on his young, hearty workforce and reinstated their health coverage through COBRA. A staffer tells Var: “We met at lunch yesterday and drafted a letter to Scott and the department heads in L.A. and New York expressing that we would like our medical benefits back,” a source within the agency told Daily Variety. “Also that it’s unfair to say we don’t need benefits because we’re young (Scott had offered that among reasons to stop coverage), and it’s unfair to deny us coverage flat out. We appreciated it was a tough decision for him to make, but we’d rather keep our coverage than get the small raise he mentioned.” More »
