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The Last Mogul

Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood - With a New Afterword by the Author

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The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top."As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the 1990s, Lew Wasserman was the most powerful and feared man in show business for more than half a century. His career spanned the entire history of the movies, from the silent era to the present, and he was guru to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Jimmy Stewart, and to a new generation of filmmakers beginning with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. For more than four years, Dennis McDougal interviewed over 350 people who knew the man with the giant dark horn-rimmed glasses -- colleagues, relatives, rivals -- and drew on tens of thousands of pages of documents to produce this extraordinary and first-ever portrait of a legend and his times, a book that the New York Times Book Review called "thoroughly reported and engrossing" and that the Daily News called, simply, "a bombshell."

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The Last Mogul, Dennis McDougal

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Année de publication
2001
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Titre
The Last Mogul
Sous-titre
Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood - With a New Afterword by the Author
Langue
Anglais
Publié
2001
Format
souple
Pages
600
ISBN10
0306810506
ISBN13
9780306810503
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Description
The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top."As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the 1990s, Lew Wasserman was the most powerful and feared man in show business for more than half a century. His career spanned the entire history of the movies, from the silent era to the present, and he was guru to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Jimmy Stewart, and to a new generation of filmmakers beginning with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. For more than four years, Dennis McDougal interviewed over 350 people who knew the man with the giant dark horn-rimmed glasses -- colleagues, relatives, rivals -- and drew on tens of thousands of pages of documents to produce this extraordinary and first-ever portrait of a legend and his times, a book that the New York Times Book Review called "thoroughly reported and engrossing" and that the Daily News called, simply, "a bombshell."