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Author: Adam H. KermanAdam H. Kerman Date: Jun 19, 2008 14:06
Fun, but shallow, documentary of the life of the true business genius
among the movie moguls, Lew Wasserman. He was more intelligent, a better
negotiator. The other studio moguls let Wasserman do their dirtywork to
negotiate union contracts. Like the best American businessmen, he was
the son of immigrants, getting his college education and MBA in the
tough neighborhood in Cleveland he grew up in.
Was Wasserman mobbed up? You better believe it. As a teenager, he got
his start in nightclubs and vaudeville with jobs in the mob facilities.
But he was the smart kid and would use the mob connections he made way
back when to help keep labor peace in Hollywood after the mob took over
the unions.
He started booking musical acts and would come to the attention of Jules
Stein, founder of MCA. Music Corporation of America began with Stein
booking bands into mob joints in Chicago. Stein would make Wasserman an
agent and send him to Hollywood. It had only a few clients, including
Ronald Reagan.
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Author: AlbertClarksonAlbertClarkson Date: Jun 19, 2008 19:41
On Jun 19, 2:06Â pm, "Adam H. Kerman" chinet.com> wrote:> Fun, but shallow, documentary of the life of the true business genius
> among the movie moguls, Lew Wasserman. He was more intelligent, a better
> negotiator. The other studio moguls let Wasserman do their dirtywork to
> negotiate union contracts. Like the best American businessmen, he was
> the son of immigrants, getting his college education and MBA in the
> tough neighborhood in Cleveland he grew up in.
>
> Was Wasserman mobbed up? You better believe it. As a teenager, he got
> his start in nightclubs and vaudeville with jobs in the mob facilities.
> But he was the smart kid and would use the mob connections he made way
> back when to help keep labor peace in Hollywood after the mob took over
> the unions.
>
> He started booking musical acts and would come to the attention of Jules
> Stein, founder of MCA. Music Corporation of America began with Stein
> booking bands into mob joints in Chicago. Stein would make Wasserman an
> agent and send him to Hollywood. It had only a few clients, including
> Ronald Reagan.
> ...
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Author: AlbertClarksonAlbertClarkson Date: Jun 19, 2008 20:21
On Jun 19, 7:41Â pm, AlbertClarkson aol.com> wrote:> On Jun 19, 2:06Â pm, "Adam H. Kerman" chinet.com> wrote:
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>>> Fun, but shallow, documentary of the life of the true business genius
>> among the movie moguls, Lew Wasserman. He was more intelligent, a better
>> negotiator. The other studio moguls let Wasserman do their dirtywork to
>> negotiate union contracts. Like the best American businessmen, he was
>> the son of immigrants, getting his college education and MBA in the
>> tough neighborhood in Cleveland he grew up in.
>
>> Was Wasserman mobbed up? You better believe it. As a teenager, he got
>> his start in nightclubs and vaudeville with jobs in the mob facilities.
>> But he was the smart kid and would use the mob connections he made way
>> back when to help keep labor peace in Hollywood after the mob took over
>> the unions.
>
>> He started booking musical acts and would come to the attention of Jules
>> Stein, founder of MCA. Music Corporation of America began with Stein ...
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Author: Adam H. KermanAdam H. Kerman Date: Jun 20, 2008 06:41
AlbertClarkson aol.com> wrote:
>Fascinating. I saw that documentary on Wasserman awhile back and got
>entirely caught up in it, but had no context like the one you've
>presented, so thanks.
The details were summarized from the documentary. I added the missing
stuff about other studios' forays into television from memory.
>I also hope Garner gets to go fishing.
Yeah. This sucks.
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Author: bluegillbluegill Date: Jun 20, 2008 06:47
Clarkson,
It's sheer laziness on your part to quote Kerman's long message not once but
twice when responding to it in two separate posts. Especially your second,
one sentence post where you simply correct a name from your first post. You
should do what most people in this newsgroup do, which is edit the message
you are responding to so that you only include what's needed to put your
message in context. It makes your post easier to read and the overall
thread easier to follow and doesn't unnecessarily waste bandwidth. You have
a tendency to do this in most of the messages you post.
Actually, if you were a newbie Kerman would have torn you a new asshole for
doing this, as he has done with others in the past. But this newsgroup has
always been about treating your buds one way and others another way, so I'm
sure we shant hear from him on this. Besides, you are responding to another
one his off-topic posts, which doesn't happen often, so I'm sure he's
thrilled to get the attention.
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Author: WiseguyWiseguy Date: Jun 20, 2008 09:47
"Adam H. Kerman" chinet.com> wrote in
news:zuidnTydg8n4V8fVnZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@comcast.com:
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> The documentary skips details which I would have found fascinating and
> claimed Wasserman was the innovator in a few areas, when he obviously
> wasn't the first. For instance, he makes a big deal that Universal
> invented the made-for-tv movie, strongly implying that the other Big 8
> studios had nothing to do with television production.
It wasn't implied, you inferred it. Made-for-TV movies are just one part of
television production.
That's nonsense,
> as Warner Television was the major television studio in the '50's and
> '60's with Westerns that when the went to color were produced with movie
> production values despite smaller budgets.
>
A series is a series no matter how well it's produced. It's not a made-for-
TV movie.
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
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Author: Adam H. KermanAdam H. Kerman Date: Jun 20, 2008 21:35
Wiseguy yahoo.com> wrote:>"Adam H. Kerman" chinet.com> wrote:>>The documentary skips details which I would have found fascinating and
>>claimed Wasserman was the innovator in a few areas, when he obviously
>>wasn't the first. For instance, he makes a big deal that Universal
>>invented the made-for-tv movie, strongly implying that the other Big 8
>>studios had nothing to do with television production.
>It wasn't implied, you inferred it. Made-for-TV movies are just one part of
>television production.
The documentary maker was belittling the other studios for failing to
see what Wasserman saw in television's potential. I thought it was a
cheap shot, but forgiveable. Universal itself wasn't important in
television's earlier decades, although MCA itself was through Revue
Productions.
Yeah, it was implied.
>>That's nonsense, as Warner Television was the major television studio
>>in the '50's and '60's with Westerns that when the went to color were
>>produced with movie production values despite smaller budgets.
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