Show-biz talent agent Sam Cohn dies at 79

NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Cohn, a powerful talent agent for some of Hollywood and Broadway's biggest stars as well as a pantheon of directors, writers and playwrights, has died. He was 79.

Family friend David Richenthal said Cohn died Wednesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital after a brief illness.

Cohn's clients at International Creative Management were a who's who of show business. Over the years they included Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Lily Tomlin, Kathleen Turner, Vanessa Redgrave, Arthur Miller, Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, Nora Ephron, Bob Fosse, Sigourney Weaver, E.L. Doctorow and Jackie Gleason.

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