Last Mogul. Lew Wasserman, Mca, And The Hidden History Of Hollywood

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: DaCapo Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 566 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Now in paperback-the Los Angeles Times best seller: the acclaimed and decidedly unauthorized portrait of the "Godfather of Hollywood". The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, Ive 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 glassescolleagues, relatives, rivalsand 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. "

ISBN: 9780306810503