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Start in the mailroom, end up a mogul. David Rensin’s The Mailroom tells the true story behind the Hollywood legend — the grueling, low-paid, sleep-deprived training ground at William Morris (later CAA and ICM) where entertainment’s most powerful people learned the business from the bottom up — the hard way, the only way.
Through firsthand accounts, Rensin reveals how future moguls like David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz survived the brutal apprenticeship: fetching coffee, sorting mail, absorbing every secret of the deal-making machine — a world of screaming agents, impossible demands, and priceless lessons: equal parts boot camp and Hollywood fairy tale, with the scars to prove it.
Funny, gossipy, and full of insider lore, this is essential for anyone fascinated by how Hollywood really works — proof that in the dream factory, even the biggest careers start with the smallest jobs and the longest hours.
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. In The Mailroom, David Rensin tells the true story behind that legend — the grueling, low-paid, sleep-deprived training ground at the William Morris Agency (and later CAA and ICM) where some of the most powerful people in entertainment learned the business from the bottom up.
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Through firsthand accounts from the mailroom graduates themselves, Rensin reveals how future moguls like David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz survived the brutal apprenticeship: fetching coffee, sorting mail, and absorbing every secret of the deal-making machine around them. It’s a world of screaming agents, impossible demands, and priceless lessons — equal parts boot camp and Hollywood fairy tale.
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Funny, gossipy, and full of insider lore, The Mailroom is essential reading for anyone fascinated by how Hollywood really works — proof that in the dream factory, even the biggest careers start with the smallest jobs.
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