Martin Gage, a veteran Hollywood and New York talent agent whose client roster over the decades included Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley, Geraldine Page, Kim Basinger and Tim Robbins, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 89.
His death was announced by the Brs/Gage Talent Agency.
Born in New York on May 4, 1934, Gage began his show business career as an actor in the 1950s, performing on and Off Broadway, as well as in summer stock and the Las Vegas production of the musical comedy La Plume De Ma Tante.
Gage shifted his focus to representation in the 1960s, first as a manager, and then as an agent. He joined the Fifi Oscard Agency, and after four years became a partner in the newly-dubbed Oscard-Gage Agency. In 1973, he opened The Gage Group in New York, and two years later moved to Los Angeles to expand the agency.
In 2014, his agency merged with Brs...
His death was announced by the Brs/Gage Talent Agency.
Born in New York on May 4, 1934, Gage began his show business career as an actor in the 1950s, performing on and Off Broadway, as well as in summer stock and the Las Vegas production of the musical comedy La Plume De Ma Tante.
Gage shifted his focus to representation in the 1960s, first as a manager, and then as an agent. He joined the Fifi Oscard Agency, and after four years became a partner in the newly-dubbed Oscard-Gage Agency. In 1973, he opened The Gage Group in New York, and two years later moved to Los Angeles to expand the agency.
In 2014, his agency merged with Brs...
- 11/21/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
In a strong sign of support of Israel from Hollywood, more than 700 figures from the entertainment industry have signed an open letter to condemn Hamas and demand the safe return of hostages being held in Gaza.
The letter is the first major move from the entertainment industry, as Israel has been under attack.
Released by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace, the letter has been signed by celebrities and Hollywood leaders including Gal Gadot, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Pine, Mayim Bialik, Liev Schreiber, Amy Schumer, Michael Douglas, Jerry Seinfeld, Debra Messing, Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, Haim Saban, Irving Azoff, Ynon Kreiz, Mark Hamill, Howie Mandel, Bella Thorne, Antoine Fuqua and more.
The open letter calls on the entertainment community at large to speak out forcefully against Hamas, to support Israel, to refrain from sharing misinformation about the war and to do whatever is in their power to urge Hamas terrorists...
The letter is the first major move from the entertainment industry, as Israel has been under attack.
Released by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace, the letter has been signed by celebrities and Hollywood leaders including Gal Gadot, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Pine, Mayim Bialik, Liev Schreiber, Amy Schumer, Michael Douglas, Jerry Seinfeld, Debra Messing, Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti, Haim Saban, Irving Azoff, Ynon Kreiz, Mark Hamill, Howie Mandel, Bella Thorne, Antoine Fuqua and more.
The open letter calls on the entertainment community at large to speak out forcefully against Hamas, to support Israel, to refrain from sharing misinformation about the war and to do whatever is in their power to urge Hamas terrorists...
- 10/12/2023
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
A Pennsylvania teen is appealing his murder conviction and prison sentence for killing a friend two years ago — after which he took a selfie with his victim that was a key piece of evidence against him.
Maxwell Morton, 19, was tried as an adult and convicted in February of third-degree murder in the shooting death of Ryan Mangan. The two were both 16 in February 2015, when Morton fatally shot Mangan in Mangan’s bedroom in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, before fleeing the scene with the gun.
Before he left, Morton took a photo with Mangan, who was slumped over and bleeding in the...
Maxwell Morton, 19, was tried as an adult and convicted in February of third-degree murder in the shooting death of Ryan Mangan. The two were both 16 in February 2015, when Morton fatally shot Mangan in Mangan’s bedroom in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, before fleeing the scene with the gun.
Before he left, Morton took a photo with Mangan, who was slumped over and bleeding in the...
- 6/20/2017
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
After losing his arms and legs in an explosion in Afghanistan six years ago, Marine Sgt. John Peck decided one morning that he would fling himself down a flight of stairs and end his life.
Then, while looking out his window at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Peck saw another patient, a double amputee, holding the hand of his young daughter and hugging his wife.
Peck, then 25, changed his mind.
“I thought, ‘If that guy can find happiness and somebody to spend his life with, then so can I,’ ” the retired military mortarman from Fredericksburg, Virginia,...
Then, while looking out his window at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Peck saw another patient, a double amputee, holding the hand of his young daughter and hugging his wife.
Peck, then 25, changed his mind.
“I thought, ‘If that guy can find happiness and somebody to spend his life with, then so can I,’ ” the retired military mortarman from Fredericksburg, Virginia,...
- 11/9/2016
- by erinhilltimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
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