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...efforts as a film studio, and it has since become the world's largest motion picture and television company. More than any other studio, MCA has led the latter-day renaissance of Hollywood, and the man who has done the leading is MCA's president, Lew R. Wasserman...
Great Future. "As long as I've known Lew," says his friend Tony Curtis, "everybody's been frightened of him." Not everyone has reason to be. He liberally delegates authority and even more liberally disperses the credit for MCA achievements. "I don't believe that one man ever runs anything," he says. He insists on the spirit of "we." As one MCA sales executive explains it: "I think Mr. Wasserman would be very upset if anyone used the word 'I'-if someone were to walk into his office and say, 'I just sold...
...Stand Up, Lew." There were, of course, the social amenities. To a state dinner Lyndon invited a varied group including Dr. Benjamin Spock, every body's baby doctor (who confided that he may picket the White House in protest against MLF), Dan Blocker, the strapping "Hoss" of TV's Bonanza, Mrs. Robert V. H. Duncan, president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and nine relatively unknown couples from Texas. Johnson was in fine fettle. Before toasting the Queen, he introduced nearly everyone at the table: "Our own beloved Chief Justice Warren. The Vice President-elect, Mr. Humphrey...
...does not endear him to his players -or to anyone else, for that matter. There are some, even, who claim that his reputation as a tennis tactician is grossly inflated. "The only instructions we were ever given were 'Go for the lines' and 'Relax,'" says Lew Hoad, who also played on four of Hopman's Davis Cup squads...
Meanwhile Peppard bullishly amasses a fortune, exploiting "this new product -plastic," building up a transcontinental airline, and making lots of people miserable. His victims include Lew Ayres, Bob Cummings and Martha Hyer, a high-priced call girl who is summoned for stardom. To prevent all the plots and subplots from collapsing, Director Edward Dmytryk keeps a narrator warmed up to respond to the question, "How did it all happen?" with quick summaries of Robbins' lip-smacking prose. Thus Scenarist John Michael Hayes leaps 30 to 40 pages at a clip and distills the rest of it in dialogue that...