The Agent Dance: ICM Takes A Chance On Gruber

We know it's way too early to start talking about anything as unpleasant as the world of agents, so feel free to send us that dry cleaning bill if you can't keep down your blueberry muffin. But we hear that Michael Gruber, the agent (and now producer-by-default) famously fired by George Clooney and CAA for trying to extract a $250,000 finder's fee from Clooney's purchase of a villa in Lake Como, is headed back into the agenting game at ICM. Hopefully this time Gruber will learn that he can't take a cut of everything and will refrain from licking his chops when one of his clients gets pregnant, silently calculating if the baby's liver or kidneys constitute his ten percent.