L.A. County

Mark Rossen, 34, has resigned as a television agent with Creative Artists Agency Inc. to join InterTalent, a talent agency formed last year by individuals who had defected from both CAA and International Creative Management Inc.

CAA is one of the most powerful and stable businesses in Hollywood, and only a few of its agents have defected to rivals since the company was founded in 1975.

Rossen, who had been with CAA for nine years, didn’t return calls, and InterTalent officials declined to say whether any television writers or producers were expected to follow him. CAA--which helped assemble, or “package,” such TV series as “Alf,” “Golden Girls” and “Beauty and the Beast”--generally distributes responsibility for individual clients among a number of agents, making it difficult to determine which clients were most closely associated with Rossen.

Michael Ovitz, CAA’s president, said of Rossen: “He resigned. We wish him well. Mark went to InterTalent to become a partner, and we think he’s talented and terrific.”