Character Analysis
A Minor Production
Max Fabian is a minor character who seems to only exist as comic relief and as a handy plot point. When we're introduced to Max, by Addison, we're told there are two types of producers. For one, "production mean potential ruin or fortune. This type is out to make a buck. Meet Max Fabian." This makes him seem like a greedy control freak, but if he is, we never see any evidence of it.
Poor Max basically sits around completely overwhelmed by all the powerful women in his presence. They give him heartburn, and Margo has to medicate him. We do see that he has a thing for pretty young women, but what man doesn't in this film? This makes it believable that he'd hire Eve, but she's a good actress, too.
Multiple times during the movie, characters speak of Max's death. We expect him to have a heart attack in the middle of the heated argument between Margo and Lloyd, but nothing much happens then either. Max produces drama on-stage, not off.