The New York Times is stooping to the level of everyone else in LA--they've got an agent. Todd Hoffman, who got to tag along when Broder-Webb morphed into ICM, reps those stories that just beg to be made into feature films. Somehow, one of these is a 1,700 word piece by Jennifer 8. Lee about the alledged awkwardness of guys who aren't gay getting together and hanging out, one-on-one.

Hoffman also reps Randa Haines, who just directed Matthew Perry in The Ron Clark Story, And by some happy twist of fortune--he also has Harris Goldberg, who wrote and directed Numb, which also stars Matthew Perry. Of all the dumb luck.

So by a law of Hollywood physics, which clearly states Everyone Represented Must Converge, next summer, we can go to the mall and see

Man-Date--Matthew Perry as You've Never Seen Him Before