Central Casting: Rival agencies complain that TalentPlus bogarted local auditions for Up in the Air

That model agency sounds like a typical scam agency. No real agency in any big city charges 250.00 for talent to sign up. I have profesional headshots from a well known photographer in Miami who is well known and is industry known. Actors and models should not have to choose their photographers. No wonder they are not SAG. Sharron Tucci understands the business and works with Sag's regulations. You never pay an agent. They take a percentage when they book you work. There is a company based out of Toronto,Canada who works with real people and they do not charge a fee. Central Casting based in Hollywood California recently got finded for charging fees which is illegal in the state of California and it should be in any market.

Is this complaint for real? What this article makes clear to anyone in the business is that Camille Adams does not belong in this business. If she is sick and tired of one talent agency dominating the business she should stay in business for thirty years and make the same connections to local and out of state agencies Sharon Tucci has acquired. How many SAG actors does Menagerie Models represent? Are they even SAG or AFTRA franchised? Of course a casting director would select agencies that represent union talent. Joni Tackette is without a doubt the best casting director working in St Louis. She understands that the director casts the film and that it is her job to assist the director in finding the talent he/she desires. As with so many casting directors who work in smaller markets her ego is not a part of the process. To question her integrity or her ethics is preposterous. And while we're at it how could Kim Tucci's position as film commissioner with close ties to a talent agency constitute a conflict of interest???? Kim has no control over who the director will cast. Kim Tucci has worked hard for years to bring film production to St Louis. And that's a crime because?????Camille Adams should quit whining and invite Jerry Jones to lunch.

Someone should investigate the sweetheart relationship between the Missour film commissioner Jerry Jones, the Tucci family, and IATSE 493 -- the union for film crew workers. It's not just a "closed system" for actors, but for crew members, as well. What the article doesn't say is that Ms. Tackette is not an independent casting director, but was recently -- and may still be on the Tucci's payroll. That's probably why she refused to be interviewed for the article. The film industry in St. Louis and the state will never flourish until stranglehold that the Tuccis, IATSE, and the film commission have on the local industry is broken. There is clearly some restraint of trade going on. The woman from Menagerie Models hit the nail on the head -- there's too much small town bs here. Thanks to the RFT for having the guts to print a story that the Post and none of the TV stations would dare pursue, because of the advertising clout of the Pasta House.

Nepotism is wrong.

Crying over spilled milk is understandable -for children.

A little maturity would go a long way in this town's film industry - from Mr. & Mrs. Tucci not "bogarting" casting calls, nor using legacy and elite connections to maintain business-as-usual in St. Louis' film community, to little guys who wanna be big but refuse to work for it.

For any reader who doesn't know, our status quo for "film friendliness" in this town results to about one artistically-insignificant big-budget P.O.S. movie every few years, with the large lot of creative performers & technicians waiting tables or working at Blockbuster (where you can't even rent Escape from New York on DVD!)...

Is this Mr. & Mrs. Tucci's fault? Surely not. So, perhaps all of those so sour about the possibility that these two life-long industry professionals, like 'em or not, committed any wrongdoing. You've got to trust their track record & longevity in our community St. Louis, from the mexican dishwashers at the Pasta House to the industry stranglehold Talent Plus has over SAG. It's so easy to blame the wealthy when we are all so poor, but also quite immature.

We have to come together and produce something HERE, not something that we have to beg and plea and possibly cheat to be apart of! How ridiculous? So, from downtown to Clayton to the CVC and MOMMA, MO FIlm and the badly-in-need-of-resuscitation St. Louis Film Office, I say:

BURY YOUR HATCHETS - WE MUST COME TOGETHER IN PEACE TO MAKE IT THROUGH THESE TUMULTUOUS TIMES.

Also, for those flinging mud and those being struck by it, please discontinue any further escalation of this pathetically absurd and immature conflict, make a public truce, lllow the Tuccis to clear their name, and everyone move forward as a team of St. Louisans rather than a bunch of fraternal cabals bent on one-another's destruction.