RON MEYER: Steve McQueen left William Morris to go with Freddie Fields at CMA. It was a devastating loss, and right after that, Weisbord made an announcement to everyone that he had just signed the tap dancer Ann Miller, who was then already in her later years. I had been there four years and decided I would make my bones and show them all my stuff. Now, no one at my level had ever spoken—or even asked a question—in a big staff meeting. We were supposed to be invisible. But I said, “Mr. Weisbord, can I say something? We’re the greatest agency with the greatest agents in the world and Ann
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