(CelebrityAccess News Service) – Veteran agent Steve Martin, who heads up The Agency Group's New York office, is recovering from a car accident in Toronto last week.
CelebrityAccess has learned that Martin was hit by a car that did not see him coming around a parked truck while he walking across the street near The Agency Group's Toronto office. His surgery on Sunday, November 23, took seven hours. His left leg was broken two places below the knee and his left shoulder was replaced.
Martin is resting and doing well and will hopefully be med-evaced by plane later this week to his home.
We all wish him a speedy recovery.
— Jane Cohen and Bob Grossweiner
Papa Grows Funk Manager Leaves Band, Resumes Legal Career
(CelebrityAccess News Service) – Jonathan Weiss is no longer managing Papa Grows Funk, a band he's managed since their start in 2000, after deciding to resume his legal career in New York.
Weiss practiced law for a number of years before he moved
to New Orleans to work with Papa Grows Funk and other acts. He is currently acting as the band's business advisor, but is no longer involved in the day-to-day business operations of the band.
"I felt that being in New York, in a law firm, with the connections I have/can make, would be more beneficial to the band in the long run and be a better utilization of my own time," he told CelebrityAccess.
"I love the band members, their music intensity, and their commitment to the New Orleans music tradition," he continued. "Relatively few people care about musical history, or tradition, or the culture where the music came from anymore and
that is what makes New Orleans musicians in general, and Papa Grows Funk, in
particular, stand apart. I am proud of where the band is after only two
years on the road compared to where we started (in the Old Point Bar playing
for 30 people on Monday nights). And we did it ourselves with very little
help from the "business." I think PGF has a great future.
Under Weiss' management, PGF released two best-selling CDs — "Doin' It" (2001) and "Shakin'" (2003), and headlined at the 2003 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
Festival. — Jane Cohen and Bob Grossweiner
Stephen Marks Joins Evolution Entertainment
LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess News Service) – Top literary manager Stephen Marks has departed Marathon Entertainment after two and a half years to join Evolution Entertainment, it was announced today by Evolution principals Mark Burg and Oren Koules.
Marks, whose clients include writers David Weiss and David Stem (RUGRATS, JIMMY NEUTRON, SHREK 2) as well as directors David Grossman (GEORGE OF JUNGLE 2, CSI MIAMI) and Steve Zuckerman (GOOD MORNING MIAMI, IT’S ALL RELATIVE), joins Evolution in their literary department where he will continue to represent writers, directors and production companies in both television and features.
“Evolution is an energetic company whose track record for advancing clients’ careers speaks for itself,” said Marks. “This feels like a great fit.”
“Stephen joins Evolution at an exciting time of growth and success,” said Evolution’s Burg. “His experience and great relationships will play a major role in growing the firm.”
Prior to his tenure as manager at Marathon, Marks was an agent, first at ICM where he spent seven years as a packaging television, including shows such as COPS, and later at Major Clients Agency and the Metropolitan Agency. At Metropolitan, Marks spent three years as head of the literary department. He began his career in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency.
All of Marks’ clients, who also include Keith Truesdell (BILL MAHER SHOW), Debora Cahn (WEST WING), George Zaloom (WINDFALL), Tri-Crown Productions, and veteran producers Frank Lupo and John Wilcox, will join him at Evolution Entertainment.
Evolution Entertainment, run by Mark Burg and Oren Koules, has produced three movies this year, including DUMB AND DUMBERER and New Line’s upcoming LOVE DON’T COST A THING. Burg and Koules also executive produce the hit CBS comedy, TWO AND A HALF MEN. –by CelebrityAccess Staff Writers.
