Norman Brokaw

Norman Brokaw is a minor, antagonistic character in the novel "狩猎好莱坞" inspired by the celebrity persona of Norman Brokaw.

Background
He was William Morris Agency's (W.M.A.) first mail room trainee to become an agent. He represented film stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Bill Cosby, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood; music stars such as Donna Summer; and sports stars such as Mark Spitz. After the death of W.M.A's Chairman and CEO, Morris Stoller, and President, Stan Carmen, he became the new President of the agency. Under normal circumstances, he held most of the agency's power as the new Chairman, Lou Weiss, and CEO, Lee Stevens, were too old to get involved in the day-to-day affairs.

Volume 1 (1986)
Norman Brokaw got wind that Jonathan Friedman, the newly-promoted Vice-President, was planning to turn a script into W.M.A's first packaged project. He didn't wish to see Jonathan gain prestige in the agency thanks to the project's success, even at a cost to the agency, so he secretly leaked the script to the Big Six, along with Jonathan's plans to turn it into a packaged project. Naturally, the studios didn't want the project to succeed either since they knew that if W.M.A, the largest talent agency, succeeded in creating packaged project like C.A.A. then soon the cost of film production would skyrocket.

Norman Brokaw also secretly talked with Leonard Goldberg, the President of 20th Century Fox, and agreed to a preliminary proposal wherein W.M.A. would only provide the director and actors, unlike Jonathan's original plan of the project using W.M.A. clients for the main creative cast and the behind-the-scenes staff, as well. He also got Lee Stevens, who was part of the same faction as him, to put pressure on Lou Weiss to get Jonathan Friedman, who was part of the same faction as Weiss, to accept Ronald Goldberg's proposal. Things went according to his plan and Jonathan Friedman stated that he would accept the proposal and talk to his clients the following day.

The following day, however, all of Norman Brokaw's plans went awry when Jonathan Friedman suddenly called him and informed him that he wouldn't go through with the plan. An hour later, Norman Brokaw got the news that Jonathan had flown to W.M.A's headquarters in New York so he quickly booked a flight and also rushed to New York.