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

McDougal, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517704641 ISBN 13: 9780517704646

Publisher: Crown Publications, 1998

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

For more than a decade, Dennis McDougal covered Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times, chronicling celebrity courtroom dramas, including Art Buchwald v. Paramount--the landmark battle for the profits from actor Eddie Murphy's hit comedy Coming to America. Buchwald v. Paramount exposed sleazy studio accounting practices and resulted in McDougal coauthoring the best-selling Fatal Subtraction: How Hollywood Really Does Business. McDougal, who was nominated for an Edgar Award for In the Best of Families, has won more than fifty journalism honors, including the Knight Fellowship from Stanford University and the National Headliners Award. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Long Beach, California.

From the Inside Flap:

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,

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Publications
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0517704641
• ISBN 13: 9780517704646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448