The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, Mca, and the Hidden History of Hollywood - Hardcover

McDougal, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517704641 ISBN 13: 9780517704646

Verlag: Crown Publications, 1998

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Book by McDougal Dennis

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Offers an unauthorized account of the life and times of Lew Wasserman, the ruthless, secretive head of MCA whose influence spread from Hollywood to Washington, D.C., and from the gangsters of the forties to today's celebrities

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n's life story is the story of Hollywood, the "you scratch my back, I'll stab yours" Hollywood that movie fans may hear about but rarely see. As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA), Wasserman has been the most powerful and feared man in show business for more than half a century. His story has remained largely unknown, until now. . . .
        
Michael Eisner, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ted Turner, Barry Diller, Rupert Murdoch: the men who run Hollywood today had the way paved for them by Lew Wasserman, the original Hollywood power broker. Intensely private and so low-profile that he wouldn't allow press photographers to take his picture for decades, Wasserman ran his beloved MCA with an iron fist. His story has never been told before for one overriding reason: fear. For more than fifty years, he has been one of a handful of Hollywood giants who could say, "You'll never work in this town again,

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• Verlag: Crown Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0517704641
• ISBN 13: 9780517704646
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448