When Hollywood Had a King (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Connie Bruck
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1896-2002
- Setting: Chicago; Los Angeles; and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Lyndon B. Johnson, Sidney Korshak, James C. Petrillo, Ronald Reagan, Jules Stein, Lew Wasserman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Politics, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Chicago, California, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Business or business people, Organized crime, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Hollywood, Entertaining or entertainers, Labor unions, Profit
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, Washington, D.C.
When Lew Wasserman, once the president of the Music Corporation of America (MCA), died in 2002, probably few Americans knew his name or his place in the cultural history of the United States during the twentieth century. For more than half of that century, Wasserman had been a key figure in deciding what films and television programs were aired, who the stars of such shows were, and how these entertainment offerings would be presented. As the president of MCA, he headed an organization that managed the professional services of many of the brightest stars in Hollywood’s galaxy. Not...
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