A senior Vatican official is being investigated for “allegedly selling works of art with fake Vatican-stamped certificates representing them as masterpieces by artists such as Michelangelo.” – The Times (UK)
Tag: 08.12.00
SUBJECT TO PREY
The relationship between biographer and subject can be adversarial. Sometimes subjects retaliate. “It’s war, and a number of contemporary writers have tried to gain the upper hand by putting biographers in their novels and short stories.” – National Post (Canada)
AGENT WAR
“Since the earliest days of Hollywood, agents have been the power-wielders behind the studios’ thrones. They have thrived as wheeler-dealers who guide clients’ careers, negotiate salaries and, nowadays, arrange those all-important ‘back-end deals’ – percentages of a film’s gross profits.” Now there’s an agent war. Poaching is rampant. “Industry insiders have not seen anything like it since the mid-Eighties.” – The Telegraph (UK) 08/12/00