Kings of Comedy crumbling?

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Sharon Waxman's latest N.Y. Times piece (dated 9.25) is about Jim Carrey 's recent decision to leave UTA agent Nick Stevens and how the move "rumbled through Hollywood like a storm [and] signaled changing times for a tight network of stars who have dominated Hollywood comedies for several years -- Carrey, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Steve Carell and writer-directors Judd Apatow, Adam McKay -- and how the key to this web of interwoven talent has been Stevens and his deputies at the United Talent Agency, and the talent managers Jimmy Miller and Eric Gold, who represented most of the artists -- and how that may be coming to an end, amid accusations of back-stabbing and character assassination."

Waxman's story isn't as dishy as Nikki Finke's 9.20 L.A. Weekly story, but it frames the new situation -- is the UTA/Gold-Miller Kings of Comedy house-of-cards about to crumble? -- in tight dramatic terms.