Beardown wrote:
What did he die from?
this killed his career:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/movie ... d=all&_r=0Quote:
By that August, a rift was opening between Mr. Shandling and Mr. Grey, who had become his manager in 1980, just out of college, and who by now was representing Hollywood A-listers like Brad Pitt, Courteney Cox and Adam Sandler. For the first time, Mr. Shandling got an outside review of his financial dealings with Mr. Grey, and he did not like what he was told: that Mr. Grey had been reaping millions of dollars behind his back.
Mr. Grey, who received a 10-percent manager's fee on Mr. Shandling's earnings and $45,000 per episode of "The Larry Sanders Show," had also taken for himself the 50-percent share of the show's eventual profits — "triple-dipping," as Mr. Shandling's lawyers would put it. While Mr. Shandling had agreed to these terms, Mr. Grey had discouraged him from getting independent advice beforehand, Mr. Shandling's lawyers said.
Mr. Grey returned $1.2 million in excess commissions unearthed by the review, Mr. Shadling's lawyers said, but Mr. Shandling contended he was owed substantially more. As the atmosphere grew more contentious, Mr. Grey dropped Mr. Shandling as a client in November 1997, and Mr. Shandling sued in January for $100 million in damages. The lawsuit questioned whether managers who are also producers have an inherent conflict of interest.
Mr. Grey and his allies fired back. First, Dan Klores, the publicist the two men shared, announced he was dropping Mr. Shandling and called him "illogical and irrational." Then, in March 1998, Mr. Grey hit Mr. Shandling with a headline-grabbing countersuit, claiming he had "acted erratically, irrationally, and at times abusively," all at great cost to the "Larry Sanders" partnership.
On the sidelines now was Ms. Doucett, who had just married another man and had become pregnant, but who, in light of her seven-year relationship with Mr. Shandling, could be of great value as a witness in the suit. Then her phone started ringing.
"All of a sudden, Brad and Garry love me," Ms. Doucett said. "People I hadn't spoken to in years."