Around 1990, I was invited regularly to the home of a famous super agent.
I thought he was a great guy! One thing he did, for friends & clients, was having regular movie nights at his Beverly Hills home. There were drinks, food, and then a film that had yet to be released. Usually, someone at the party was in the screened flick.
These movie nights were for fun & bonding between Super Agent & his clients.
They were social & networking events, not thinly disguised business meetings.
Which is what made it so strange when this A list, or was A list at the time-actor showed up early, had a hissy fit, and wouldn’t leave!
My first reaction was: ‘His feet are tiny!’
He’s not a tall man, but I swear, he was wearing sneakers that looked like they were made for a 12 year old. His face was red with rage.
Guests started coming in, and Super Agent was trying to get the Angry Man to simmer down, out to leave & see him the next day at his office. Angry Man continued to act like a real jerk, and finally Super Agent managed to get him outside.
I’d tried to diffuse Angry myself with a casual conversation. He didn’t even turn to look at me. Just stared straight ahead. Whew! Rude!
So, when stories about Angry Man being a well known creep started coming out, I wasn’t surprised. I’m surprised there aren’t more!
I’d believe the worst about this guy. It was way too close an encounter.
I thought he was a great guy! One thing he did, for friends & clients, was having regular movie nights at his Beverly Hills home. There were drinks, food, and then a film that had yet to be released. Usually, someone at the party was in the screened flick.
These movie nights were for fun & bonding between Super Agent & his clients.
They were social & networking events, not thinly disguised business meetings.
Which is what made it so strange when this A list, or was A list at the time-actor showed up early, had a hissy fit, and wouldn’t leave!
My first reaction was: ‘His feet are tiny!’
He’s not a tall man, but I swear, he was wearing sneakers that looked like they were made for a 12 year old. His face was red with rage.
Guests started coming in, and Super Agent was trying to get the Angry Man to simmer down, out to leave & see him the next day at his office. Angry Man continued to act like a real jerk, and finally Super Agent managed to get him outside.
I’d tried to diffuse Angry myself with a casual conversation. He didn’t even turn to look at me. Just stared straight ahead. Whew! Rude!
So, when stories about Angry Man being a well known creep started coming out, I wasn’t surprised. I’m surprised there aren’t more!
I’d believe the worst about this guy. It was way too close an encounter.
TomCruise?
ReplyDeleteBryan Lourd sounds like the Agent.
DeleteTom Cruise as the angry man?
ReplyDeleteRichard Dreyfus
ReplyDeleteThat was my guess. Close encounters
Delete"I’d tried to diffuse Angry myself with a casual conversation. He didn’t even turn to look at me. Just stared straight ahead. Whew! Rude!"
ReplyDeleteDid you tell him your amazing shrimp story and how you're vegan?
Seriously! These are so stupid! Shrimp shrimp shrimp 🍤 😏
Delete😂😂😂😂boredatworkwinstheday!!!
DeleteSigning to say hahahahahahah
DeleteJoe Pesci
ReplyDeletedreyfus because of the 'close encounter' reference. and he IS tiny. and an asshole, allegedly.
ReplyDeleteI knew there was a reason that I always disliked Dreyfus. There is something very unsavoury about him.
DeleteOh wait. Good guess @totaji
ReplyDeleteRichard Dreyfus sounds good too! Or Dustin Hoffman.
Tiny angry man, definitely Tom. Personally I like him. He's a closet case but I haven't heard anything about him being a pedo, so that's a big plus in my book. He's also has done some amazing film work, even though he plays himself in almost every movie he makes. As for being a creeper? Well he's gay, who hires long term beards, so again not buying him being inappropriate around women. If it wasn't for being the figurehead for Scio he'd have a staring rep. However his giant ego won't let him let go, even though the cult is obviously dying on it's ass and destroying his legacy.
ReplyDeleteI was told a story by a friend who said he got his ass kicked by Smokey Robinson's son at a party at Vidal Sassoon's house and was run out of town when he sued.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know that one?
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ReplyDeleteYeah, I came here to say what totaji was saying. Dreyfus. Nancer is right-- he's a notorious ass. Called out for harassment recently. Would have been promoting Postcards From The Edge or What About Bob? around that time.
ReplyDeleteAri Emanuel for the agent, or is that too obvious?
ReplyDeleteAri is an angry little man himself. I doubt he sees anything wrong with this behavior.
DeleteWhat are you all doing guessing Tom Cruise? It says the guy was A list at the time, meaning he no longer is. Tom Cruise is still considered A list.
ReplyDeleteBoredatwork-your comment is exponentially more entertaining than this person's three "blinds" put together.
ReplyDeleteMuch better INSIDERHER... I forgive you for the lame OJ blind.
ReplyDeleteThat time someone got mad at a party is a bind item?
ReplyDelete@boredatwork, that's a silly question. Of course she told him she was vegan.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of tiny, angry men...
ReplyDeleteBack when I was in univ., there was a joke that made the media during a lot of film festivals: "Whoops!...I just stepped on Mel Gibson!" People were repeatedly surprised at how short he was/is. (NTTAWWT.)
It wouldn't surprise me if his feet where that small back in 1990.
Apparently so @Saintpat
ReplyDeleteRichard Dreyfuss is a possible, there are accusations out against him and the timeline fits. He's also bipolar so that behavior would match with being manic.
ReplyDeleteI like the Pesci one
ReplyDeleteSheesh - Not everything can be pedophilia.
ReplyDelete@Brayson87 —
ReplyDeleteHe's also bipolar so that behavior would match with being manic.
He migh tbe bipolar. But he might just be a dick.
My 12 year old nephew has size 11 feet.
ReplyDeleteCareful, don't let Bryan Singer know....
DeleteNot even looking at someone speaking to you sounds just like something Tiny Tom would do.
ReplyDelete@Mad, oh he's definitely bipolar:
ReplyDelete"In 2006, Dreyfuss discussed his diagnosis of bipolar disorder in the documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, in which Fry (who also has the disorder) interviewed Dreyfuss about his experience with the disorder.[45]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dreyfuss#Personal_life
Yep, Scios' first lesson is how to stare at an object without blinking, without reacting to any stimulus, for a few hours. That would fit for tiny tom. Is he known for throwing tantrums though?
ReplyDeleteI hate to hear the Richard Dreyfuss guesses, just as I hated to hear about his pervy behaviour, because I ran into him outside the Alamo, of all places, and he was very friendly to me and my children, who were little at the time. He was interested in history and talked about Sam Houston.
ReplyDeleteMichael Ovitz for the agent. Not very interesting stuff, though.
ReplyDeleteBeing at a party where someone is present and acts weirdly isn't the stuff of Homeric epic.
I think this is Gibson, tbh.
ReplyDeleteI like these InsiderHer blinds. They aren't scandalous but if you put yourself in her position you can understand these situation would have been shocking.
ReplyDeleteEmmanuel Lewis.
ReplyDeleteI find this way more interesting that blinds about who the teen mom’s boyfriends are fucking.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Piven
ReplyDeleteSean Penn just to be different.
ReplyDeleteSteven Seagal, A list at the time? Small feet, big shoes....
ReplyDeleteIn 1990 Michael Ovitz would have been the super agent.
ReplyDeleteFFS, "close an encounter" and Dreyfuss is known as both short and an ass.
ReplyDeleteCase closed for the actor.
Ovitz fits timeline for agent.
FFS. Ok.
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ReplyDeleteI don't mind the INSIDERHER blinds, although the handle is reading INSIDE HER in my mind. In any case, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY better than the DB Douche Bag Dancing BitchBaby blinds...
ReplyDeleteOne of the forbidden subjects when interviewing Dreyfuss is, for some strange reason, WHAT ABOUT BOB. He won't talk about it. Does Enty know why?
ReplyDeleteI'm commenting too late for anybody to notice or care, but when I was a kid I had an issue of Mad magazine. They did a spoof on a movie Dreyfuss was in, but named him "Richard Dryface." Needless to say, he's been Richard Dryface to me ever since. (Also, John Travolta = John Revolta.)
ReplyDeleteMad Magazine taught some of us how to read . What a memory you stirred there!
ReplyDeleteTom is NOT known for tantrums.
ReplyDeleteMel is. He's not particularly short though.
Dreyfus certainly- and the last sentence points his way.
Definitely Richard Dreyfus...too close of an encounter..."Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
ReplyDeleteSo the person is basing this one incident on the Richard Dreyfus's personality as a whole? That's a little judgy wudgy. Maybe he was just having a really bad day...and he's a hot headed kind of guy. I'm sometimes a little hot headed too.
I was an extra on a short-lived show called The Education of Max Bickford when I was 15. I accidentally forgot to walk across the screen with my tray to kick off a cafeteria scene. Richard Dreyfus snapped at me!
ReplyDeleteDustin Hoffman
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