Lew Wasserman
Lew Wasserman
Lewis Robert "Lew" Wassermanwas an American talent agent and studio executive, sometimes credited with creating and later taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades. He was also the manager of MCA...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth22 March 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
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Historically, they have tended to avoid being active, because they had some concern about it helping or hurting them, as the case may be.
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Will I do something different? Probably, since to be quite blunt about it, what we did the first time resulted in an admittedly somewhat bizarre, but guilty, verdict.
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I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.
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We had a hung jury, ... and instead, he used (the holdout juror's) illness as an excuse to dismiss her from the jury.
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It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.
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I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
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I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
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To me, it's the White House and always will be.
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President Johnson offered the middle of the road.
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I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
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Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.
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That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.