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	Lew Wasserman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lew Wasserman (March 15, 1913 - June 3, 2002) was a Hollywood agent and studio executive credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades.
		Following the rising postwar popularity of television and the resulting near bankruptcy of many studios Wasserman bought Universal Studios from Decca in 1958 and merged it with MCA in 1962.
		Lew Wasserman died in Beverly Hills and was interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lew_Wasserman (256 words)

	Guardian \| Lew Wasserman
		Lew Wasserman, who has died from complications of a stroke aged 89, was the former chairman and chief executive of the Music Corporation of America.
		Wasserman's other achievement, if that is the word, was to anchor Hollywood to Washington as a political fund raiser, in return for favourable treatment for the industry.
		Wasserman, now in his 80s, retired on a $1m annual retainer and lived to see the Hollywood giant he built change hands again in 2000, when it was acquired by the French corporation, Vivendi.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4427232-103684,00.html (1017 words)

	Hollywood and Wasserman's Legacy - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lew Wasserman is the only owner of the large company over the past 40 years who can be compared with the legendary studio founders such as Adolph Zukor, William Fox, Louis B. Mayer and the Warner Brothers.
		Lew Wasserman was not only a producer, an agent, the owner of the studio, a patron of TV company and the president of a recording studio.
		Wasserman was the first to start negotiations on shares of actors in profits made by films where the actors performed.
	english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=9806 (813 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Lew Wasserman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lew Wasserman, the former chairman and chief executive of the Music Corporation of America, who was arguably the most powerful and influential Hollywood titan in the four decades after World War II, has died, aged 89.
		Wasserman was a generous contributor to Jewish causes and gave so much to Catholic charities that Pope John Paul II asked to meet him in 1987.
		Wasserman forced the film studios and the radio networks to pay his agency a percentage of their gross and 10 per cent of every salary of MCA clients who were hired - a practice called packaging.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /LewWasserman.htm (2034 words)

	Lew Wasserman, longtime head of MCA, dies at 89 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lew Wasserman, one of the last old-time movie moguls who helped build an entertainment empire while keeping company with presidents and the most glittering of Hollywood stars, died Monday.
		Wasserman was the last of his generation, a studio mogul who wielded power and influence before studios became part of multinational corporations.
		Wasserman was born in Cleveland on March 15, 1913, and went to work at age 12 hawking candy in a burlesque house.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/06/03/obituary1723EDT0132.DTL&type=printable (922 words)

	Booknotes
		Wasserman said he needed him, that he had to go back to Washington because there was a critical moment in the vote on the investment tax credit.
		And also, Wasserman always dressed that way, and even if there hadn`t been a dress code, his people were so kind of imbued with his stature as a leader that they tended to mimic him, even to the slightest thing.
		Wasserman was the Democrat, and Taft Schreiber was the Republican.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1737 (8628 words)

	JSEI About -
		Lew R. Wasserman's distinguished service to UCLA and Jules Stein Eye Institute dates back to the 1960s and his close association with friend, colleague and mentor Dr. Jules Stein.
		Wasserman and his wife Edie have supported UCLA in a variety of ways over the years through such programs as the Edie and Lew Wasserman Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production Fellowships, Edie and Lew Wasserman Scholars Endowment and Edith and Lew Wasserman Fund for Undergraduate Support.
		Wasserman was a recipient of numerous awards, including the 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.jsei.org /About/about_jules_lwasserman.htm (235 words)

	Los Angeles Magazine: The colossus: for more than 50 years, Lew Wasserman dominated Hollywood. Connie Bruck's masterful ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But it began with MCA-Universal chief Lew Wasserman, who died in May 2002, and maybe it was my imagination that a naked hush preceded the creeping moss of applause as movieland's ultimate gray eminence appeared on the screen.
		To hire Wasserman, Stein had to break one of his own rules, which was that all his agents had to be college graduates--a rather higher bar in the '30s than now.
		If the key to the industry, as Wasserman apparently grasped from the start, was control of the unions, then the key to the unions was, by and large, the mob--a connection that MCA was uniquely suited to manage, thanks to its Chicago roots.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1346/is_6_48/ai_103124667 (1166 words)

	Lew Wasserman, longtime head of MCA, dies at 89
		Wasserman died at home from complications of a stroke, said Susan Fleishman, a spokeswoman for Vivendi Universal Entertainment, which now owns Universal Studios.
		As chairman and chief executive, Wasserman was the undisputed ruler of MCA Inc., then parent of Universal Studios.
		Wasserman, whose thick fl-frame glasses dominated his tall, thin frame, marked his 50-year anniversary with MCA in December 1986 in a celebration at its Universal City studios.
	www.bttf.com /news/02060301.shtml (524 words)

	LA Weekly: WLS Review: Getting Lew'd
		McDougal’s subject is Lew Wasserman, the steel eagle of MCA who became "the most potent single figure in show business," and is about as romantic as the fl tower on the Universal lot that bears his name.
		Wasserman is not so much enigmatic as he is secretive in a way McDougal finds sinister and investigates for over 500 pages with the kind of relentless zeal one associates not with Fitzgerald’s Stahr, but with Monica’s.
		Wasserman virtually invented packaging when Mike Ovitz was still a law-school dropout and tour guide at Universal, dreaming of himself as a baby Wasserman.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/99/03/wls-bach.php (1827 words)

	JS Online: Movie Mogul Lew Wasserman, 89, Dies
		Wasserman rose to power at the Music Corporation of America, where he had gone to work as a 23-year-old talent agent in 1936.
		Wasserman built MCA into an entertainment powerhouse that included a film studio, TV studio and record label, along with theaters and amusement parks.
		Wasserman is survived by Edie; daughter Lynne Wasserman; and two grandchildren, Carol Leif and Casey Wasserman.
	www.jsonline.com /news/nat/ap/jun02/ap-obit-wasserman060402.asp?format=print (823 words)

	Lew Wasserman
		Lew Wasserman, one of the last of the old-time breed of movie moguls, died June 3, 2002, at his Los Angeles home of complications from a stroke.
		The tall, bespectacled Wasserman, who preferred to keep a low profile in a high-profile business, was the long-time head of MCA Inc., a talent agency that he, in partnership with the late Jules C. Stein, expanded into a worldwide entertainment conglomerate, the parent company to Universal Studios.
		Wasserman's influence extended beyond Hollywood -- he was a long time friend of Ronald Reagan but also, as a committed Democrat, one of the earliest backers of Bill Clinton.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho5/wasserman_l.htm (686 words)

	Coin Books :: When Hollywood Had a King : The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence
		Wasserman was the type of leader who drew a mixture of respect and fear.
		One of Wasserman's clients in the late thirties was a young actor under contract to Warner Brothers by the name of Ronald Reagan.
		Whether one considers Wasserman's odyssey relevant (which, in today's phenomenally globalizing era it most urgently is) needs not even be questioned; a book as scintillating as Bruck's clearly holds its own, regardless of its artistic content.
	www.coin-books.com /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0812972171 (1578 words)

	LA Weekly: WLS: The Man in the Black Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Lew Wasserman died, in June 2002, at 89, obituaries spoke to the enormous respect in which he had been held.
		All of this, and the earlier stuff on how Lew broke the studio system by boosting profit participation for talent and how he then came to be running a movie studio and a TV studio, is first-rate business history (so long as you stay wary about which gossip or recollections to trust).
		Lew was a donor to charity; he was a guiding force in the Democratic Party in Hollywood — and a more secret but just as effective promoter of Republican interests.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/03/28/wls-thomson.php (1548 words)

	Amazon.com: When Hollywood Had a King : The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to her account, Wasserman had a special talent for achieving his objectives while preserving cordial relationships with a wide and diverse range of potential antagonists.
		Bruck appropriately establishes Wasserman as the gravitational center of her book but she also probes deeply into basic sources of power and influence within the evolving culture of the entertainment industry, sources which remain long after Wasserman was no longer actively involved.
		It is impossible to understand who Wasserman was and to appreciate what he achieved without correlating his personality and career with the history, economics, art, politics, and psychology of the empire over which he reigned for so many years.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375501681?v=glance (2449 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: When Hollywood Had a King: the Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wasserman's story is inseparable from that of MCA, and this book appropriately begins with an account of the company's founder, Jules Stein, who began booking bands from his Chicago office in 1924.
		Wasserman helped shift the balance of power to Hollywood, remaining with the firm despite being widely sought after by rival agencies and movie studios.
		Lew Wasserman worked his way through the ranks, developing into a brainy, ruthless, megalomaniac who was revered by all and sundry after his death.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812972171 (1540 words)

	Lew Wasserman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lew Wasserman (March 15, 1913 - June 3, 2002) was a (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood agent and studio executive credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades.
		He served on the (A group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution) board of directors until 1998.
		Lew Wasserman died in (A city in southwestern California surrounded by Los Angeles; home of many Hollywood actors) Beverly Hills and was interred in (Click link for more info and facts about Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery) Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in (Click link for more info and facts about Culver City) Culver City.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lew_wasserman.htm (250 words)

	Lew Wasserman - The man who ruined movies. By Walter Shapiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wasserman's entire career was built around an unspoken credo: The deal, no matter how cynical, is an end in itself.
		Stubbornly press shy, Wasserman was as monochrome as the fl suits, white shirts, and dark ties he began wearing when he joined MCA, then exclusively a talent agency, in the 1930s.
		Maybe that should be the epitaph of Lew Wasserman, a man who for more than 60 years zealously pursued power for its own sake: He only waited for presidents.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2066690 (1010 words)

	Lew Wasserman - The man who ruined movies. By Walter Shapiro
		As film historian Neal Gabler summed up in the Los Angeles Times this week, "In effect, Wasserman was the man who put the inmates in charge of the Hollywood asylum." Yet as head of Universal, Wasserman was reluctant to indulge the inmates.
		Wasserman personally made an estimated $500 million from the 1990 sale of MCA (which owned Universal) to the Japanese conglomerate Matsushita.
		One last story that I heard from a friend of Wasserman's: A stickler for punctuality, the mogul and his wife, Edie, were seen sitting awkwardly at a table set for four at the old-guard restaurant Chasen's in early 1990s.
	www.slate.com /?id=2066690 (1010 words)

	Edie & Lew Wasserman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By Boston Globe film industry reporter Kathleen Sharp's account, the late Lew Wasserman was a prince among Hollywood players and precisely in the Machiavellian sense.
		With his wife Edie -- who, as Sharp reveals, wielded plenty of power of her own -- Lew Wasserman arrived in Hollywood in the mid-1930s, working as an agent for Jules Stein, the ophthalmologist who founded the Music Corporation of America and built it into the country's premier talent agency.
		Wasserman, a hardball player himself, rose to the presidency of MCA, heading an army of agents who regarded him with a mixture of fear and awe.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2058427 (635 words)

	The Daily Page: Going-Out: Movies: Reviews: Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Perhaps the greatest tribute to the way Lew Wasserman conducted his affairs is that few who read this will recognize his name.
		Now, three years after his death at 89, Wasserman is finally the star of the show, adored and deplored by the cast of characters that Barry Avrich has assembled for his even-handed documentary, The Last Mogul.
		Wasserman made sure he never wrote anything down, so exactly what that might have involved may never be entirely known.
	www.thedailypage.com /going-out/movies/reviews/movieReview.php?intReviewID=852 (549 words)

	Lew Wasserman, Old-Time Movie Mogul, Dies at 89
		BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Lew Wasserman, one of the last old-time movie moguls who helped build an entertainment empire while keeping company with presidents and the most glittering of Hollywood stars, died Monday.
		Wasserman died at home from complications of a stroke, said Sue Fleishman, spokeswoman for Universal Pictures.
		As chairman and chief executive, Wasserman was the undisputed ruler of MCA Inc., the parent of Universal Studios.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/694048/posts (785 words)

	Moldea: "I never alleged that Lew Wasserman had me followed or tapped my phone" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wasserman has never been thoroughly profiled, although Dan Moldea, a writer who has documented the influence of organized crime in labor and politics, examines aspects of Wasserman's business practices in Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob (Viking Press, 1986).
		Moldea claims Wasserman targeted him for harassment: his phone was tapped and distribution of the book was suppressed in California.
		He is certain that Lew Wasserman targeted him for harassment.
	www.moldea.com /Wasserman.html (541 words)

	01/18/99 The Titan Who Remade Tinseltown
		Wasserman, who works half-days at the high-rise headquarters building that bears his name, has a lifetime contract for $1 million a year as a consultant to Seagram Co., which paid $5.7 billion for control of Universal parent MCA in 1985.
		It was powerful agent Wasserman, McDougal writes, who rewrote the rules of Hollywood, securing for B-movie king Ronald Reagan the town's first $1 million contract and inventing the now-commonplace practice of ''packaging,'' by which agents claim 10% of the action for offering up actors, directors, and scripts to studio chiefs.
		Indeed, it was Wasserman, as Jack Warner would later complain to antitrust investigators, who almost single-handedly destroyed the star system, by which studios kept their actors under long-term, low-paying contracts.
	www.businessweek.com /1999/03/b3612027.htm (852 words)

	MCA Talent Agency - Lew Wasserman and Jules Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lew Wasserman and Jules Stein of MCA — Talent Agents
		Lew Wasserman had been with him for several years, and became one of the first of the super agents Hollywood would ever see.
		He and Lew had a definite idea how a talent agency should be run and how its agents should look and behave.
	www.scrapbooksofmymind.com /MCA-talant-agency-lew-wasserman.htm (485 words)

	JSEI About -
		Plans are underway at Jules Stein Eye Institute for the construction of a third building, the Edie and Lew Wasserman Eye Research Center, which will complete UCLA's vision science campus and provide the means for the Institute to sustain a leadership role in ophthalmology into the 21st century.
		In a Wasserman tribute address, President Bill Clinton declared, "This is about more than a new building; it's about the far-reaching effects blindness research will have on the quality of life for people around the globe." Other Wasserman Foundation support for JSEI includes the Edie and Lew Wasserman Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology.
		The Edie and Lew Wasserman Center will maximize a functional and integrated building plan for programs that will further the dream of both the Steins and the Wassermans-to prevent blindness through the eradication of eye diseases.
	www.jsei.org /About/about_jules_weyecenter.htm (335 words)

	The Last Mogul: Life and Times of Lew Wasserman (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This film shows without a doubt how Hollywood was born out of mafia management strategies, and it was 'clean' guys like Lew Wasserman who were able to use their brains, guts, and influence to make the entertainment industry legit (so to speak) despite its financial underpinnings.
		Lew Wasserman did keep one troubling trait (for researchers) that he picked up from his mob associates, NEVER write anything down.
		MUST-SEE viewing if it comes your way, and remember that Robert Evans was just a blip on the Hollywood radar compared to Lew Wasserman so if you thought "The Kid Stays in the Picture" was informative just remember that that documentary was only the tip of the Hollywood iceberg.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0388201 (495 words)

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