How Carrey dumped agent

Nikki Finke lays out the not-so-charming details of how United Talent's Nick Stevens got the heave-ho after 15 years. There's a lot of badmouthing and scheming going on (this is Hollywood, after all), but it boils down to Carrey's managers claiming that Stevens was spending too much time playing golf at Riviera, and Stevens claiming that Carrey's managers were orchestrating the comedian's move to CAA for their own financial interests. Here's how Finke opens:

Few Hollywood talent agents have ever worked as long and loyally for an actor and his managers as United Talent’s Nick Stevens. For 15 years, he, with Jimmy Miller and Eric Gold of Gold/Miller, called themselves “Team Carrey.” They guided comic Jim Carrey’s career since he was an early-1990s breakout hit on Fox TV’s "In Living Color." Known for strategic thinking and savvy deal making, they moved Carrey from TV into movies and jumped his salary from a paltry few hundred thou for "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective" to an Industry record of $20 mil for "The Cable Guy" just 18 months later. In turn, Carrey once rewarded them with spankin’ new Porsche 911 Carrera convertibles.

But on September 13, Carrey phoned Stevens and said, “I’ve never met with another agency. But I’m feeling like it’s time.” The two haven’t talked since. The next day, Stevens had that Porsche towed and sold.

“I could never sit in it again after that,” the agent was overheard to say.