DOES SMOG NEED AN AGENT NOW? William Morris is out to make some green by upping new clients' eco-cred. Pollution, you'll never work in this town again.(News)

Advertising Age, December, 2007

Byline: CLAUDE BRODESSER-AKNER

In Hollywood, even the air has an agent. So do the trains.

Well, sort of.

Meet Sen. Kevin Murray, a Democrat who joined Hollywood's oldest talent agency, William Morris, in January after term limits ended his career in the California State Senate.

"I could've spent my days walking around Sacramento, asking people to vote for stuff,'' Murray says, his face clouding over at the mere thought of becoming a lobbyist. Instead, after more than a decade representing Hollywood in Sacramento and fighting for green causes, he has returned

to his hometown to help the Morris office face a really inconvenient truth: With the town hobbled by a writers strike, agents still need to keep rolling in the green....

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