I've been reading a lot about Lew Wasserman, the head of MCA. There are at least three biographies of him out there--"The Last Mogul," "When Hollywood Had a King," and "Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood."

He also figures prominently in Dan Moldea's "Dark Victory," about Reagan, MCA, and the mob in Hollywood. Fascinating stuff. Wasserman was connected to the Mayfield Road gang in Cleveland (Moe Dalitz, Sam Tucker, Morris Kleinman and Louis Rothkopf) and he and Sidney Korshak, the Chicago mob lawyer, were good friends and very closely connected--Korshak apparently served as the intermediary between the Outfit, which controlled the Hollywood unions, and the studios, represented by Wasserman.

Very interesting story about Mafia involvement in Hollywood, music, and entertainment.