Talk:Lew Wasserman

message: How is it that a 12-year-old Dakota Fanning gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but Lew Wasserman, with a 7 decade run as the most powerful man in Hollywood only gets one 5 years after his death?
Maybe the most powerful man in Hollywood didn't need the ego boost of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You do have to pay for your own star, after all. It's not a recognition of anything. 66.65.41.238 (talk) 14:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hollywood Walk of Fame

message: 'According to Dan E. Moldea's survey Dark Victory : Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob .. organized crime allegedly pushed Reagan's career within the Republican Party, obtaining many favors in return from the politician.'
A fairly huge amount of bandwidth goes into this discussion. The article isn't about Reagan. I am skeptical of these crazy-quilt tie-ins Dan E. Moldea makes. Maybe he could be questioned about his tactics or sources or conclusions. I know that he also has a book about how organized crime and the N.F.L. are cozy. Some really hot stuff. He raises truly disturbing questions about connections. But I have questions about too much sloppy journalism, and errors and unfounded insinuations. If I mention "The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means and Opportunity", then hope I can let you guess what is in it. Can't guess? Well, everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was arranged by union boss Jimmy Hoffa and the Mafia. Outrageous? I say 'sure', and also, Hoffa and the mob are just a few of the stories that Moldea has written about in his career as a .. well, okay, as a journalist, I suppose, but how did his libel suit against the New York Times over its lying review of his 1989 book about professional football and the Mafia turn out? Dismissed. So we don't have to take my word for it about, in so many words, 'sloppy journalism'. DanLanglois (talk) 05:22, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does this Reagan and mob stuff really belong here? 

message: Wasserman brokered James Stewart to Universal for Winchester'73. So why made this only Stewart enormously rich, but not Wasserman?? I cannot imagine Wasserman brokered Stewart (who was before tied to MCA) to Universal just for the sole profit of Stewart (and Stewart's own "one-man-company"). Why didn't made this Wasserman enormously rich too?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.133.204.231 (talk) 19:08, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "it made Stewart enormously rich" 

message: I know they're related. What is the exact family relationship? Is Debbie involved with the Foundation in any way? Tks. Benefac (talk) 16:24, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the connection to [[Debbie Wasserman-Schultz]]? 

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message: There's info available to the effect that MCA had strong mob connections. I've never read the assertion that Capone and/or the Outfit controlled it outright. An editor added this info not bothering about little details like reliable sources for reference. The info's been removed and the editor will be notified. Tapered (talk) 02:37, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disruptive entries re Capone & The Outfit