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...four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film business, breaking the hold of studio contracts that locked up actors, embracing television and, with Jaws, inaugurating the summer blockbuster. Wasserman's power...
...York City. Waksal is accused of trying to unload his shares and telling two shareholders to sell their stock the day before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was rejecting ImClone's application for the approval of Erbitux. Waksal's close friend, American domestic guru Martha Stewart, sold her shares in the company just before the announcement but has denied that she was tipped...
...agent, ex-chairman of MCA Inc. and the last of the Hollywood tycoons; in Los Angeles. Wasserman built MCA into an entertainment colossus with a film studio, TV studio, record label, theme parks and theatres. In over fifty years in the business, Wasserman's clients included Bette Davis, James Stewart, John Garfield and Gregory Peck. In 1974 he gave an unknown director called Steven Spielberg a chance to direct his first film: Jaws. An inveterate Democrat, Wasserman raised millions for the Democratic Party's candidates dating from Kennedy to Clinton.(See Eulogy). DIED. RADWAN EL-KASHEF, 50, acclaimed Egyptian film...
...very learned, very bright, he seemed intellectually old age for his age,” said Zeph Stewart, now Mellon professor of humanities emeritus, who was one of the readers for Segal’s thesis. “He was very serious, more seriously interested in academic work than most people...
...artistic compromises. Zaw Win Htut owns a cherry red Chevy Impala and has enough money to be considering sending his daughter to an Australian boarding school. These are the fruits of 20 years of performing, again and again, watered-down Burmese covers of rock relics by the Eagles, Rod Stewart and the Beatles...