The show will be fictionalized, with no actual names being used. Instead, it will focus on the real-life tensions between Ford Model Agency and Elite Model Management thirty years ago. Robin Bissell, who wrote The Hunger Games scripts, will be writing and co-producing the show.
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The CAA-repped Crawford achieved global superstardom in the ’80s and ’90s – the heyday of supermodels – when Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christie Brinkley, Brooke Shields, Elle Macpherson and Christy Turlington, among others, rose to fame.
Jason Merritt/Getty Images Cindy Crawford, shown at the Golden Globe Awards in January, is reportedly helping to create a TV series about model agency wars of the 1980s. That said, she played herself for an episode of Cougar Town that aired in March, so she didnt leave that world behind completely. “I just did a commercial this week with Sophia Vergara – and she’s so amusing”. Though I would love a “re-telling of Crawford’s own experiences”, I’ll settle for thinly-veiled characterizations of even thinner people.
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She also made waves in the industry when she appeared in 1995 hit Fair Game, starring opposite the likes of Salma Hayek and William Baldwin. According to Variety, the show, tentatively titled Icon, is to be set in New York and will chronicle the excessive, competitive and often-fraught world of modelling in the Me Decade. Why or why not?
