With UTA, Michael Kassan skirmish, why do Hollywood and Madison Avenue make for strange bedfellows?

With UTA, Michael Kassan skirmish, why do Hollywood and Madison Avenue make for strange bedfellows?

These unions are notorious for unraveling, though they typically do so behind closed doors. UTA and Kassan have definitely shattered that mold.

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