Music Corporation of America

Ours Taylor Swift (to my babes) ...cal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7dI7Bw7aiU

Superman Taylor Swift (to my babes again, oh yeah and substitute words where needed) hmmmm and i call him babes cause way long time ago my daddy called me baby and i was just learning to talk and tried to imitate him and i somehow said babes when i was drinking a bottle and spit the milk all over my daddy and everywhere........ go figure ey ...your rockin robot reporter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5thzMaEl8&feature=fvwrel

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uUo_Z9XPo8 (u don't wanna miss this as it's dedicated to you if u'r reading this) ...cal

http://www.lewrockwell.com/burris/burris10.html
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Dan E. Moldea, Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob. An explosive and unsparing exposé, Moldea reveals "the Gipper" in the grip of the Syndicate's MCA monolith.

Dennis McDougal, The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood. More on the story of MCA's Lew Wasserman, fixer Sidney Korshak, Screen Actors Guild president Ronald Reagan, and the mob.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001654/bio
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Reagan's career sagged after the late 1940s, and he started appearing in B-movies after he left Warners to go free-lance. However, he had a eminence grise par excellence in Lew Wasserman, his agent and the head of the Music Corp. of America. Wasserman, later called "The Pope of Hollywood," was the genius who figured out that an actor could make a killing via a tax windfall by turning himself into a corporation. The corporation, which would employ the actor, would own part of a motion picture the actor appeared in, and all monies would accrue to the corporation, which was taxed at a much lower rate than was personal income. Wasserman pioneered this tax avoidance scheme with his client James Stewart, beginning with the Anthony Mann western Winchester '73 (1950) (1950). It made Stewart enormously rich as he became a top box office draw in the 1950s after the success of "Winchester 73" and several more Mann-directed westerns, all of which he had an ownership stake in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Korshak
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Korshak numbered among his friends many Hollywood celebrities and leading figures in the entertainment industry, including MCA/Universal chief Lew Wasserman, entertainment lawyer Paul Ziffren (the driving force behind bringing the 1984 Olympics to Los Angeles), MGM chief Kirk Kerkorian, Gulf + Western founder Charles Bluhdorn, Frank Sinatra, Ronald Reagan, William French Smith (labor attorney and future United States Attorney General), Edmund "Pat" Brown, Edmund "Jerry" Brown, future Governor of California Gray Davis, producer Robert Evans, Warren Beatty, Barron Hilton and Hugh Hefner.

Korshak was highly successful in the field of labor consulting and negotiations, and his client list included Hilton Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, MGM, Playboy, MCA/Universal, and Diner's Club. One of his clients was Jimmy Hoffa, notorious head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; Korshak was heavily involved in the Teamsters' west coast operations during a time when organized labor was at the peak of its activity.

Korshak was an attorney for various elements of the Chicago Outfit. Korshak bought the J.P. Seeburg Corporation and immediately after the company stock rose from $35 to $141.50 a share. He then sold 143,000 shares to pivotal figures in the stock market like Bernard Cornfield, who owned the FOF Property Fund, in Switzerland. Korshak received $5 million from the deal

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Hellivision/hollywood_jews.htm
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Universal Pictures is 100% Jew controlled with Lew Wasserman as chairman of MCA (the parent company). Universal president is Sidney Sheinberg with Thomas Pollack as film head.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is run by the half-Jew Alan Ladd, Jr. (his mother being the Jewess Sue Carroll). Paramount Pictures president is the Jew Mel Harris with Martin Davis chairman and Deborah Rosen as communications director.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ladd
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In November 1962, he was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood with a bullet wound near his heart, an unsuccessful suicide attempt.[2] In 1963 Ladd filmed a supporting role in The Carpetbaggers. He would not live to see its release. On January 29, 1964 he was found dead in Palm Springs, California, of an acute overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs", at the age of 50; his death was ruled accidental.[8] He was entombed in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Not until June 28, 1964 did Carpetbaggers producer Joseph E. Levine hold an elaborate premiere screening in New York City with an afterparty staged by his wife at The Four Seasons Restaurant.[9]

Alan Ladd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1601 Vine Street.[10] His handprint appears in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater, in Hollywood.

[edit] Personal life He had married a high-school acquaintance, Midge Harrold. Their only child, a son named Alan Ladd, Jr., was born in 1937. Ladd's stepfather died suddenly. Then his mother, who suffered from depression, committed suicide by poison.

In 1942, Ladd married his agent/manager, former movie actress Sue Carol.

Ladd owned properties in Beverly Hills and, in Palm Springs, Alan Ladd Hardware. His son by his first wife Midge Harrold, Alan Ladd, Jr., is a motion picture executive and producer and founder of The Ladd Company. His daughter actress Alana, who co-starred with her father in Guns of the Timberland and Duel of Champions, is married to the veteran talk radio broadcaster Michael Jackson. Another son, actor David Ladd, who co-starred with Ladd as a child in The Proud Rebel, married Charlie's Angels star Cheryl Ladd, 1973-1980. Actress Jordan Ladd is his granddaughter.[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Carol
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Personal life
As a young woman, Carol married Allen H. Keefer, a buyer for a Chicago stock yard firm, divorcing in early 1929. In July 1929, Carol became engaged to the actor Nick Stuart and the couple married in November.

In 1933 Carol was cleared in a case involving the disappearance of a baby from a Brooklyn, New York family. The family had complained that the baby had been taken for adoption in November 1932 by a woman who said she was acting in behalf of Carol.

http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2010/11/eric-s-blog/los-feliz-the-mideast-side-s-pill-hill-.html
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Another famous residence is the home at 4961 Cromwell Avenue, designed by Marshall P. Wilkinson. One of the coolest features was the inclusion of a speakeasy, the Silent Woman Pub. Sue Carol bought it from her bandleader husband, Nick Stuart, in 1931. In 1942, Alan Ladd, whose agent/manager was Carol, moved in. Ladd overdosed and died in 1964. The home was later purchased by Scott Cutler of barely-remembered band Ednaswap, whose song "Torn" was later covered by Natalie Imbruglia, another musician long forgotten by all except adoring polysomnambulist Brian Meehan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Cutler
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CareerCutler had previously been a member of the Los Angeles bands Ednaswap and Annetenna along with songwriting partner Anne Preven.

He has written well-known songs such as "Torn" with Anne Preven for Ednaswap,[1] later covered by Natalie Imbruglia, and "Listen", sung by Beyoncé Knowles in the 2006 film Dreamgirls, for which he received a Critics Choice Award as well as a Golden Globe nomination and an Academy Award nomination. He also wrote "Sanctuary" with Madonna and "No Man's Woman" with Sinead O'Connor. He also co-wrote along with Anne the song "Yo-Yo" to the singer Mandy Moore in 2001. Cutler has helped in the production of Miley Cyrus's album Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus and co-wrote the song "Start All Over" with Fefe Dobson and Anne Preven.[2] He also wrote early in his career "Piano in the Dark" for Brenda Russell, which was nominated for a Grammy. Co-writer and co-producer: Teenager (with Nicholas Littlemore one part of pop-duo Empire of the Sun and Pip Brown a.k.a Ladyhawke). Produced and wrote new songs for Pnau album with Nick and Peter in 2010...

Beyonce and the Illumaniti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbbhzgDm6PU&feature=related


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Wasserman
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Last years
Wasserman pocketed an estimated $350 million from the sale and remained as manager, but with vastly diminished power and influence, until Seagram bought controlling interest in 1995, which then resulted in his role becoming even more marginalized. Wasserman served on the board of directors until 1998. On September 29, 1995, Wasserman was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-clinton-honors-edie-wasserman-248908
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1. Bill Clinton was the final speaker of the evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall where he recalled getting the idea while governor of Arkansas that his state should have a film office. He made a cold call to MCA chairman Lew Wasserman who invited him to Los Angeles to discuss the matter.


2) He also recalled being seated at a dinner at the Wasserman home while president with Rupert Murdoch, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Edie told him he was being introduced to the local “Judeo-Scientology culture.”

OBITUARY: Edie Wasserman, Wife of Lew Wasserman, Dies at 95

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Evans_(producer)
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In addition, an HBO miniseries titled The Devil and Sidney Korshak is being developed with writer Art Monterastelli adapting.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_2070
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StoryTotal Recall 2070 takes place in a dark, crowded, industrial and cosmopolitan setting. The government mostly runs at the behest of a small number of extremely powerful companies called "the Consortium" (including computer memory and virtual-reality vacation provider Rekall and android manufacturer Uber Braun). David Hume is a senior detective for the Citizens Protection Bureau (CPB), a police agency. After his first partner is killed by self-aware androids, he is partnered against his wishes with Ian Farve, an earnest and upright officer new to the department. Hume and the CPB often have conflicts with the Assessor's Office (the investigative agency that has sole jurisdiction over crimes related to the Consortium) and with the private security forces of Consortium companies. The main story arcs of the series concern the agendas of the Consortium, Farve, Hume's wife Olivia, and the mysterious manufacturer of Alpha Class androids (including Farve himself). Significant plot elements remain unresolved due to the cancellation of the series; a crucial story arc from the series was the suggestion that the memory expansion used on self-aware androids was part non-human DNA and that a material found by a remote base on Mars could create a hybrid of human and android DNA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium
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HistoryThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in October, 1994. It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) with support from the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which had pioneered the Internet.[citation needed]

W3C was created to ensure compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards. Prior to its creation, incompatible versions of HTML were offered by different vendors, increasing the potential for inconsistency between web pages. The consortium was created to get all those vendors to agree on a set of core principles and components which would be supported by everyone.[citation needed]

It was originally intended that CERN host the European branch of W3C; however, CERN wished to focus on particle physics, not information technology. In April 1995 the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) became the European host of W3C, with Keio University becoming the Japanese branch in September 1996. Starting in 1997, W3C created regional offices around the world; as of September 2009, it has eighteen World Offices covering Australia, the Benelux countries (Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium), Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.[3]

In January 2003, the European host was transferred from INRIA to the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), an organization that represents European national computer science laboratories


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Corporation_of_America
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The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood
Praised and feared by peer and foe alike, Lew R. Wasserman reigned for most of the second half of the 20th century as the undisputed master of Hollywood in his role as Chairman of MCA Universal – a veritable entertainment factory that manufactured movies, television programming, and popular music at a uniform and cost effective pace that invited comparison to the conveyor belt methods Henry Ford once used to fabricate Model Ts.

Born to Russian émigré parents on March 22, 1913, the future master of Music Corporation of America and Universal Studios grew up amid the speakeasies and silent movie palaces of Cleveland, Ohio. Louis Wasserman worked from his early teens as a candy salesman and usher at night while attending public schools during the day. Following high school graduation in 1930, Wasserman worked for Cleveland’s infamous Mayfield Road Gang operating a casino. He met and married Edith Beckerman, only daughter of Mob lawyer Henry Beckerman, and when the casino went bankrupt in 1936, the Wassermans moved to Chicago where Lew became a talent agent for the Music Corporation of America.

Founded in 1924 by Chicago ophthalmologist Jules Stein, MCA was by far the richest and most influential dance band agency in the world, with ties to both James C. Petrillo’s American Federation of Musicians and Al Capone’s skein of nightclubs, brothels and gambling halls. When Stein moved his headquarters from Chicago to Beverly Hills in 1937, Wasserman rose quickly among the ranks in MCA’s drive to monopolize motion picture, stage and radio talent. Among Wasserman’s earliest clients were Bette Davis, John Garfield, Jane Wyman, Betty Grable, and future President Ronald Reagan. Wasserman cemented their lifelong friendship when he negotiated one of Hollywood’s first $1 million movie contracts on Reagan’s behalf in 1941 with Warner Brothers Studios.

That same year, Edie Wasserman bore Lew his only child, daughter Lynne Wasserman. He spent scant time at home through the rest of the decade, devoting his energies instead to building Stein’s MCA into the overweening talent powerhouse in the English-speaking world. By 1946, a merger Wasserman brokered with Broadway talent lord Leland Hayward catapulted both MCA and Wasserman into Hollywood’s stratosphere. Stein named him MCA President at the age of 36 – the youngest chieftain of a major talent agency with power to make or break careers on a par with that of any of the legendary studio moguls, including Jack Warner, Paramount’s Adolph Zukor or MGM’s Louis B. Mayer. Under Wasserman, MCA became known as “The Octopus” because its tentacles extended into every aspect of the entertainment business and its agents were called the “Men in Black” because they all wore the Wasserman “uniform”: dark suit, white shirt, dark tie.

In the early 1940s, Wasserman purchased one of the first televisions sold in Southern California, set it up in his den, and advised all who visited his home that the clumsy gadget with its poor reception and sparse programming would eventually be the most influential means of communication in the world. In his role as MCA president, Wasserman proved his prescience by creating Revue Productions in the late 1940s to produce most of early television’s programs throughout the 1950s, including General Electric Theater, hosted by Ronald Reagan. As Screen Actors Guild president, Reagan oversaw an MCA waiver of SAG bylaws which forbids talent agencies from engaging in TV or film production. The secret waiver gave MCA the advantage of selling stars at the same time that its Revue Production arm hired them, but by the time the waiver came to light in 1960, Wasserman and his army of agents had secured MCA’s position as the most powerful and affluent force in the entertainment industry.

During the 1950s, Wasserman also turned film stars into independent contractors. He made actor Jimmy Stewart a millionaire with a single role in Universal Pictures’ Winchester ’73. By taking his salary in the form of profit participation instead of a paycheck, Stewart paved the way for actors, directors, producers and writers to leverage their celebrity at the negotiating table. Similarly, Wasserman formed independent production companies for stars like Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock, Errol Flynn and dozens of other MCA clients, allowing them to minimize taxes while exploiting their star salaries and expanding their influence in movie production.

In 1962, a lengthy federal Department of Justice investigation into MCA’s monopolistic practices resulted in a face-off between Wasserman and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In order to avoid criminal and civil penalties for alleged anti-trust violations, MCA divested itself of its talent agency at the same time that the company bought struggling Universal Pictures and Decca Records. Literally overnight, MCA quit the talent business and created the largest entertainment assembly line in Hollywood. Building on its Revue library of detective shows, westerns, situation comedies, and specials, MCA and Wasserman transformed the moribund Universal Pictures into Universal Studios: the largest and busiest lot in Hollywood. A backstage motion picture studio tram tour hatched by Wasserman’s brain trust became second only to Disneyland as Southern California’s biggest tourist attraction.

Wasserman succeeded Stein as MCA chairman in 1969, expanding his role beyond Hollywood to Washington D.C. and every corner of the globe. During this period MCA expanded its influence to publishing (Putnam/​Berkley), retail stores (Spencer’s Gifts), banking (Columbia Savings and Loan) and even Yosemite National Park, where MCA monopolized concessions. At its height, MCA had offices in 42 countries and beginning with John F. Kennedy, Wasserman became consigliere and a major contributor to Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and, of course, Ronald Reagan.

While much of MCA/​Universal’s output during Wasserman’s rein was negligible, the studio nurtured a host of producing talent that moved through the Universal TV, music and movie mill as if it were a finishing school before they blossomed on their own, including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ron Howard, Stephen Cannell, and Stephen Bochco. During Wasserman’s tenure, the studio won an Academy Award for The Sting and Emmys for enduring programs like Columbo and The Rockford Files, but Wasserman and his successor as MCA president, Sid Sheinberg, were far more interested in profit than art. Thus, MCA led Hollywood’s negotiations to keep wages low and profit margins high, cutting costs at every turn. Sets, stars and scripts were recycled so often that Universal became a universal butt of jokes about Hollywood homogeneity during the 1980s.

His non-stop quest to meld developing technology with his passion for profit continued to make Wasserman an innovator, just as he had been in the early days of television. In the early 1960s, he installed one of the earliest industrial computer systems at MCA headquarters and in the late 1960s, he acquired patents for digital and laser technology that would eventually make MCA the pioneer in developing CDs and DVDs. MCA locked Sony Corporation in an epic struggle to corner the early market on video cassette recording, ultimately winning the battle to make VHS tapes standard in the U.S., but losing the war over MCA’s right to prevent taping off of television in a lawsuit that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Despite MCA’s continued dominance through the 1970s and 1980s in television, popular music, and motion pictures with blockbusters like Jaws, Back to the Future and E.T., Wasserman opted to sell MCA in 1990 to Matsushita Electric for a then-whopping price of $6.13 billion, of which Wasserman’s share was more than $500 million. He and Sheinberg continued to manage MCA on Matsushita’s behalf through 1995, but a falling out with the Japanese over profligacy in the production of the MCA production Waterworld ended in a surprise sale of Wasserman’s beloved MCA/​Universal to the Canadian liquor company Seagram. Within weeks of the takeover, Seagam CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. dismissed most of Wasserman’s executive hierarchy, supplanted Wasserman in all but an advisory role, and slowly eased out the 82-year-old MCA patriarch. In 1998, Wasserman left the MCA headquarters building –renamed for him – for the last time. He continued in his role as a major Democratic Party fundraiser and contributor to Southern California institutions ranging from UCLA to the Holocaust Museum, but bowed out of his beloved motion picture business. He died at 89 in his Beverly Hills estate on June 4, 2002.
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http://www.dennismcdougal.com/_br_the_last_mogul__lew_wasserman__mca_and_the_hidden_history_of_hollywood_24553.htm
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