The ultimate Hollywood insider was ahead of her time—and, as Brian Kellow writes in an absorbing biography, a victim of her own hard-charging personality.
Power and Panache: Superagent Sue Mengers’s Rise and Fall
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| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 17, 2025 8:47 PM |
Jesus Christ, how dead is VANITY FAIR? Another article about this uber bitchy agent from the 70s? We've seen the documentary and Bette Midler in a caftan playing her. No one cares anymore.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 17, 2025 3:35 PM |
Brian Kellow’s 2015 book bio of Mengers (Can I Go Now?), is a really terrific beautifully written book. I had a copy and only read it after getting bored with Streisand’s autobio. Highly recommend the Kallow bio of Sue Mengers.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 17, 2025 3:40 PM |
I think I’m going to give it a go, r2. Sue couldn’t be less relevant now, but in guessing there are some great stories in the book?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 17, 2025 4:07 PM |
Yes, R3, and Sue’s story is the best of them all.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 17, 2025 4:17 PM |
Is the JLaw biopic anywhere near a release date?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 17, 2025 4:20 PM |
The VF article is fun, at least if you haven't already read much about Mengers, but why are they coming out with it now, especially as the Kellow bio, often quoted, was published 10 years ago?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 17, 2025 4:56 PM |
I'd love to be at her dinner party
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 17, 2025 5:11 PM |
Funny fact: Sue was good friends with Fran Lebowitz
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 17, 2025 5:24 PM |
To R1-VANITY FAIR has been DEAD for YEARS!! After Tina Brown left, VANITY FAIR was O-V-ER!! I remember at least 3 articles on Sue Mengers over the years, not including Nick Dunne's brutal article of his rise& fall in Hollywood.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 17, 2025 5:29 PM |
She was portrayed by Dyan Cannon in The Last of Sheila (a DL film-fave).
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 17, 2025 6:21 PM |
Damn, this woman seemed totally despicable. Only by Hollywood would she be embraced, lauded and empowered.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 17, 2025 7:09 PM |
^^^LOVED THAT SHOW-OF COURSE I ADORE BETTE MIDLER^^^
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 17, 2025 7:32 PM |
Wasn't sue racist? She wouldn't let Tatum O'Neal attend the wiz premiere with Michael Jackson because it wouldn't look right for her to be seen with "N****r
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 17, 2025 7:33 PM |
I just read her Wikipedia it looks like after her retirement in 1988 she had a really good life. Kathy Griffin talks about meeting a lot of interesting people at those parties, mean salons.
I think she’s been trying to replicate those.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 17, 2025 8:19 PM |
Sue Mengers was so larger than life, such a character, I’m shocked she isn't a gay icon. The Dyan Cannon character in “Sheila” doesn’t do her justice. The 1975 60 Minutes interview Sue did with Mike Wallace unfortunately isn’t on YouTube anymore.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 17, 2025 8:33 PM |