The Agent Dance: Former Agent Sprung From Jail Early

Normally, our Agent Dance feature chronicles the moves of everyone's favorite ten-percenters and the companies that sign their paychecks. But today's Variety reports a different kind of agent movement, as former literary agent Marcie Wright, chucked in the pokey for embezzling a quarter of a million bucks from such clients as writers Marc "Desperate Housewives" Cherry and Robert "Mickey Blue Eyes" Kuhn, has been released after serving just 160 days of her one-year sentence to help alleviate the overcrowding of jails. What's more dangerous than an agent who's taken those last baby steps across the ethical line and completely given themselves over to the Dark Side? We can only hope that Wright has completed the necessary rehabilitation program during her abbreviated time served, receiving high-voltage corrections each time she was tempted to tell a fellow inmate that she had six other buyers ready to pounce with higher offers for her carton of Virginia Slims.