Walk along Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills on a weekday lunchtime and you just may come across what is, for Los Angeles, a comparatively rare sight. Here, in a city that prizes itself on its relaxed approach to business, where casual attire is practically de rigueur in the workplace, there are men wearing suits – smart suits, sharp suits – moving rapidly, mobile phones clamped to ears or heads bowed over fingers stabbing at BlackBerrys and iPhones.
在某个工作日的午饭时间，如果你漫步在贝弗利山(Beverly Hills)的威尔希尔大道(Wilshire Boulevard)，迎面而来的很有可能是一番洛杉矶人难得一见的景象：在这个以悠闲工作方式自诩的城市里，工作场合穿着休闲装实际上是符合礼仪的，但依然有人身着套装——漂亮、挺括的套装，步履匆匆，耳边夹着手机或低头狂按手中的黑莓或iPhone手机。
These besuited men are talent agents and their stomping ground is the stretch of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards that links Beverly Hills with the skyscrapers of nearby Century City, the business district built on land formerly owned by the nearby 20th Century Fox studio.
这些西服革履的人是明星经纪人，他们出没于将贝弗利山和附近世纪城(Century City)的摩天大楼连接起来的威尔希尔大道和圣塔·莫妮卡大道(Santa Monica Boulevards)一带。世纪城商业区是在20世纪福克斯公司(20th Century Fox)制片厂原有的土地上建造的。
Hollywood's four biggest agencies, representing more than 70 per cent of the entertainment industry's actors, directors, musicians and writers, are headquartered here. Creative Artists Agency, the biggest player in town, is in an imposing Century City building widely referred to outside the company as “the Death Star”. A short distance away in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tower is International Creative Management, the agency that is home to, among others, Beyoncé and rising Hollywood starlet Megan Fox. Back in Beverly Hills, a stone's throw from the gleaming Beverly Wilshire hotel, are the offices of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, formed last year by the merger of Hollywood's most venerable agency with one of its youngest. Across the street are the headquarters of United Talent Agency, where clients include Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford and Gwyneth Paltrow.
代表美国娱乐圈70%的演员、导演、音乐人和剧作人的好莱坞4大经纪公司总部就设在这里。本城最大的经纪公司——创新艺人经纪公司(Creative Artists Agency)设在世纪城一座庄严的大厦内，外界普遍称其为“死星”(“the Death Star”)。不远处米高梅大厦内的则是国际创作管理公司(International Creative Management)，该公司是碧昂斯(Beyoncé)和好莱坞新星梅根·福克斯(Megan Fox)等明星的东家。转回贝弗利山，在离璀璨夺目的贝弗利山威尔希尔酒店(Beverly Wilshire hotel)不远处，是威廉·莫理斯奋进娱乐公司(William Morris Endeavor Entertainment)，它是去年由好莱坞最德高望重的经纪公司与最年轻的经纪公司合并而成的。街对面是联合艺人经纪公司(United Talent Agency)，其客户包括强尼·德普(Johnny Depp)、哈里森·福特(Harrison Ford)和格温妮丝·帕特洛(Gwyneth Paltrow)。