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050 00 $aPN2287.W4525$bB73 2003
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100 1 $aBruck, Connie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87910230
245 10 $aWhen Hollywood had a king :$bthe reign of Lew Wasserman, who leveraged talent into power and influence /$cConnie Bruck.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axiv, 512 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 483-494) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe Two Caesars -- $gCh. 2.$tMonopoly Power -- $gCh. 3.$tPolitical Might -- $gCh. 4.$tDominion -- $gCh. 5.$tWasserman & Son -- $gCh. 6.$tLost Empire.
520 1 $a"From his meager beginnings as a movie-theater usher in Cleveland, Wasserman ultimately ascended to the post of president of MCA, and the company became the most powerful force in Hollywood, regarded with a mixture of fear and awe." "In his signature black suit and black knit tie, Wasserman took Hollywood by storm. He shifted the balance of power from the studios - which had seven-year contractual strangleholds on the stars - to the talent, who became profit partners. When an antitrust suit forced MCA's evolution from talent agency to film- and television-production company, it was Wasserman who parlayed the control of a wide variety of entertainment and media products into a new type of Hollywood power base. There was only Washington left to conquer, and conquer it Wasserman did, quietly brokering alliances with Democratic and Republican administrations alike." "The history of MCA is really the history of a revolution. Lew Wasserman ushered in the Hollywood we know today. He is the link between the old-school moguls with their ironclad studio contracts and the new industry defined by multimedia conglomerates, power agents, multimillionaire actors, and profit sharing. In the hands of Connie Bruck, the story of Lew Wasserman's rise to power takes on an almost Shakespearean scope. When Hollywood Had a King reveals the industry's greatest untold story: how a stealthy, enterprising power broker became, for a time, Tinseltown's absolute monarch."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aWasserman, Lew.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98035995
650 0 $aChief executive officers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118909
610 20 $aMusic Corporation of America$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hPN2287.W4525$iB73 2003