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"If Hollywood was Mount Olympus," says movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti in Barry Avrich's THE LAST MOGUL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF LEW WASSERMAN, "then Lew Wasserman was Zeus." Over sixty years as power-broker at MCA and head of Universal Studios, Wasserman rewrote the behind the scenes Hollywood rulebook. In this "highly entertaining" (NY Post) documentary, Avrich succeeds in doing the impossible - piercing the shroud of silence surrounding a man who kept no notes, gave no interviews, and remains as feared in death as he was in life. Lew Wasserman mastered the art of the deal with a ruthlessness and style all his own. "Dress British, think Yiddish," the invariably power-suited Wasserman advised his underlings. It was that mixture of cold-blooded imperialism and matzo-mafia chutzpah that brought Wasserman from Cleveland’s red-light rackets to Hollywood, and eventually extended his career-making and destroying reach from Sunset Boulevard to Pennsylvania Avenue. Out of the ashes of the studio system, Wasserman’s MCA became the first-ever entertainment conglomerate, gobbling up artists and contracts, pioneering the modern blockbuster, and forging sweetheart deals with union bosses, gangsters and U.S. Presidents alike.
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The best years of my life were those I spent in Hollywood, living a smaller version of this life and it was magical. They don't come like this anymore.