Candice Bergen | 08/04/2009 11:00 pm
Candice Bergen's Regurgitating Renegotiation Moment on 'Murphy Brown'
In response to: What kind of negotiator are you?
If there were some form of recognition for Most Inept Negotiator — it would be engraved with my name and on my shelf. The biggest negotiation I went through was during my ten years on "Murphy." The first renegotiation, I threw up. Not in front of the group but still. My shark-like lawyer complained that I was too professional, too sane. All the tricks like not showing up for work were not things I’d even consider. "You’re too polite!!" he complained. I was a liability. It was unbearably stressful but, somehow, they managed without me and the next renegotiation, they stuffed me in a closet until it was over. I could have died there but I’m OK now.
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Candice is right. You read Hollywood books like "The Kid Stays in the Picture", "The Good, the Bad and the very Ugly," and "You’ll never Eat Lunch in this Town Again" (there are so many others). You have to be a shark to fight with sharks and most aren’t. But their agents usually are. So the person hopes they are paying them to be, while they slowly die inside until it’s over because some negotiations have ruined careers.
I went into public relations in the 1990s and you would have been the perfect partner. I became known as the ‘pro bono publicist." I had fun, it was usually for a charity, and I didn’t know better. I thought eventually someone might actually pay me at least part of my fee instead of asking me to donate it. It came to an end when a friend of mine’s father finally told me I was like the town slut who decided to become a hooker. Why would anyone pay me when I had been giving it away?