![]() ![]() As for the rest of it, he told me incredulously, “I don’t believe that Brad Grey said those things to you.” He denied saying that Shandling was feeling unloved, denied outlining specific proposals for a rapprochement, and denied, in a particularly nettled tone, that the “Do you trust me?” exchange took place: “Brad was much more respectful than that.”īeatty also said that the instigator of the lunch was actually an old friend of his: the entertainment attorney Bert Fields, who also happens to be Brad Grey’s lawyer. ![]() He agrees that he suggested a four-man meeting without lawyers, and that the peace process foundered the next day when Shandling wanted his attorneys present. Warren Beatty’s memory of the lunch is distinctly different. He thinks you didn’t love him enough.’ I said, ‘I understand, but I don’t love him enough to get this back on track. Brad Grey says that the lunch was Beatty’s idea, and recalls the heart of the conversation as follows: “Warren said, ‘This is simply a case of Garry feeling you didn’t love him enough.’ And I started, foolishly, to say, ‘That’s just not true!’ And he said, ‘No, no, no, no. He alleged, among other things, that Grey had “double-dipped,” taking fees from HBO both as Shandling’s manager and as the executive producer of “The Larry Sanders Show” made lucrative television deals by trading on his relationship with Shandling without cutting his client in and inveigled writers from “Larry Sanders” to create other shows for Grey’s television studio.īeyond that, accounts of what happened at Sushi Ko-and what occasioned the lunch in the first place-are astonishingly various. The proximate reason for the lunch was that on January 15th Shandling had sued Grey for a hundred million dollars in California Superior Court. (“My friends tell me that I have an intimacy issue-but I don’t think they know me.”) Shandling is the star of and the creative force behind HBO’s darkly brilliant sitcom “The Larry Sanders Show.” For eighteen years, Grey and Shandling, his close friend and signature client, were a classic odd couple emerging from the same limo at the Emmys: Grey slight and sleek, cagey, with a cocky bounce in his walk Shandling stiff and embarrassed-looking, but quick with deadpan one-liners about his lame sex life, his dandelion-thistle coiffure, and his emotional isolation. Grey is the chairman of Brillstein-Grey Enterprises and is Hollywood’s most powerful personal manager, with a stable of a hundred and thirty producers, writers, and actors, including Brad Pitt and Nicolas Cage. Grey and Beatty were attempting to negotiate a reconciliation between Grey and Garry Shandling, who is one of Beatty’s closest friends. And, if the right thing couldn’t be done, each was going to try doubly hard to insure that nobody thought the lunch was his idea. ![]() Each man in the room, corporeally or not, was trying very hard to do the right thing. Present in spirit were at least three other well-known entertainment-industry figures who have negotiated with each other over the years. On February 5th, Warren Beatty and Brad Grey had a three-hour lunch at Sushi Ko, a Japanese restaurant off Mulholland Drive. Around every A-list table for two hovers a host of shades, unseen mentors and advisers who whisper in ears, sift for conflicts of interest, register minute shifts in the balance of power, and-after raising an eyebrow at the price of sparkling water-make sure that their man doesn’t get stuck with the check. Hollywood is too small a town for two people to have lunch in by themselves. The Grey-Shandling feud has people all over Hollywood questioning their relationships. ![]()
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