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TOP TALENT AGENCY MAY BOYCOTT PARAMOUNT Thursday, August 24 2006 
The
head
of
Hollywood's
leading
talent
agency
has
condemned
Viacom
chief
Sumner
Redstone's
castigating
comments
about
Tom
Cruise
and
has
suggested
that
the
agency
may
now
refuse
to
do
business
with
Viacom's
Paramount
studios.
In
an
interview
with
today's
(Thursday)
Wall
Street
Journal,
Richard
Lovett,
president
of
Creative
Artists
Agency,
which
represents
Cruise,
said,
"Paramount
has
no
credibility
right
now.
...
It
is
not
clear
who
is
running
the
studio
and
who
is
making
the
(more)REDSTONE ROCKET FIRED AT CRUISE MISSILE Wednesday, August 23 2006 In an action that seemed destined to send Tom Cruise scurrying back to Scientology's E-meters to discover the source of his recent tribulations, Paramount Pictures on Tuesday dropped him and his production company after an association of some 14 years. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone commented, "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal. ... His recent conduct has not (more) |
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Producer Brian Grazer is reportedly contradicting statements by Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone that he phoned Redstone to congratulate him on decision to break off ties with Tom Cruise's production company. L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke, citing a Grazer intimate (Grazer, she said, is on vacation and could not be reached), reported Thursday that Grazer had merely phoned Redstone "to ask what's going on." Finke's source added that "anyone would be shocked to see a private phone call ever discussed publicly, much less reported in The New York Times." Meanwhile, Paramount chief Brad Grey and Viacom CEO Tom Freston remained conspicuously silent on Redstone's critical remarks about Cruise. Today's (Friday) New York Post quoted an unnamed studio executive as saying that Redstone "chopped his management off at the knees" and "showed no confidence" in either. "they look castrated."
