At Loeb & Loeb's annual CMA week brunch in Nashville, John Frankenheimer and his Music City crew girded themselves for a morning of sausage, biscuits and pleasantries. Who joined them for the carb-loading festivities? Scroll on.

Frankenheimer and Spotify's Brittany Schaffer (about whom you'll find more here) traded predictions regarding what Jeremy Erlich's Movember facial hair will ultimately look like.

"Man, I have to tell you," declared CAA's Rod Essig (r), "The Manchurian Candidate is a freakin' masterpiece." Ryan Jansen of Rightside Partners said he was pretty sure that was the other John Frankenheimer.

Big Loud's Craig Wiseman and Loeb & Loeb's Derek Crownover kept a wary eye out for HITS losers.