By: Zorianna Kit (
The Hollywood Reporter) Manhattan's weekly newspaper, the
New York Observer, has signed for representation with the Agency for the Performing Arts, where it will be handled by the company's Steve Fisher.
APA will now represent the publication's articles for feature films and television projects as well as any possible projects centering around the alternative weekly.
The
Observer first appeared Sept. 22, 1987, and has slowly built itself from a local boutique paper to a must-read among Manhattanites when it comes to culture, media, politics, real estate, and high finance. It's a mix of investigative journalism, opinionated columns, and gossipy items.
The
Observer is where Candace Bushnell first began writing her "Sex in the City" columns in the mid-1990s before spinning them off into a book that led to the creation of the award-winning HBO series of the same name starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
APA is shopping around town an article from the
Observer's April 9 edition titled "Whose Wheatens Are They, Anyway?" by writer Tom McGeveran. The article is being billed as the story of a true life Cruella De Vil who breeds wheaten terrier puppies.
Though the
Observer is APA's first foray into representing publications, the agency does represent several magazine writers and journalists, including Nancy Jo Sales, who has been published in
Vanity Fair and
New York Magazine, and Tom Carney, who wrote "Prosecutor X" for
Los Angeles Magazine. That article, about a high-profile prosecutor, is being developed as one-hour drama for Studios USA.
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