KRISTA VERNOFF, a television writer and the executive producer of the television drama "Grey's Anatomy", called her agent of 20 years on April 12th and told him tearfully that he could no longer represent her. "He has done his job well, guided and supported my career, and made me a lot more money than I would have made without him," Ms Vernoff wrote in the Hollywood Reporter. Nevertheless Ms Vernoff sacked him, as part of an acrimonious standoff between the Association of Talent Agents, a trade association made up of talent agencies, and the Writers Guild of America (wga), a union of television and film writers. The guild complains that agencies are prospering at the expense of the screenwriters they are supposed to represent.
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