RIP Sue Mengers

Probably the only Hollywood agent I ever knew much about, Sue Mengers was a towering behind-the-scenes figure in the 1970s film industry. Here are appreciations from the L.A. Times and Vanity Fair. Recommended viewing: What's Up Doc, which starred two of her clients (Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal) and was directed by a third (Peter Bogdanovich), plus S.O.B., in which Shelley Winters plays a character based on her (not very flatteringly, but then Mengers and Blake Edwards did not get along).