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Accardo, Anthony, 24, 38, 83, 91n, 118–19, 134–35, 301, 336–39
Airport, 258
Aiuppa, Joey, 326n, 336–37
Alex, Gus, 38, 116–17, 121–22, 229, 232, 336–37
Alexander, Willard, 32
Allen, Irving, 70–71
Alliance of Television Producers (ATP), SAG vs., 99–100, 173–74
American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 98, 152, 215
American Enterprise Institute, 334
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 24, 25, 60, 67–68
American Federation of Musicians (AFM), 28, 33, 44, 75, 100
antitrust investigation of, 52–53
MCA’s relation with, 4, 17–19, 31–34, 53, 55, 102–103, 156–59, 165
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), SAG vs., 144, 170, 171–73
American Graffiti, 269
American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), 58
American Musicians Union (AMU), 17
American Veterans Committee (AVC), 63
Ames, Leon, 102
Anderson, Andy, 290, 346
Anderson, Jack, 328
Andrews, Dana, 103–104
Annenberg, Leonore, 302n
Annenberg, Moses, 84–85, 135
Annenberg, Walter, 84–85, 280, 302, 303n
Armstrong, Louis, 12, 14
Arnold, Thurman, 32–33, 313
Artists’ Managers Guild (AMG), SAG and, 110, 113, 164–65, 171, 186–87
Arvey, Jake (“Colonel”), 116–17, 135
Ash, Harry, 84
Associated Artists, 30–31
Associated Booking Corporation, 14, 117, 228, 246
Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), 252, 268
Babcock, Charles, 256
Bacon, James, 92–93, 254
Balaban, Barney, 23–24, 26, 28, 80, 160, 222, 234
Balaban and Katz, Inc., 23
Baldridge, Holmes, 54–55
Barnes, Stanley N., 111
Barnett, Larry, 41–42, 48–49, 50, 206, 222
Basie, Count, 32, 43–44
Bautzer, Greg, 231–32
Baxter, William, 307–308
Bazelon, David I., 324
Beck, Johnny, 30–31
Becker, Ed, 234n
Beckerman, Edith, 51
Beilenson, Laurence, 79, 99–100, 101, 110, 178, 183–84, 209–10
Bell, Griffin, 286
Bell, Rex, 244
Bennett, Walter K., 123
Benny, Jack, 149, 238
Berger, Ralph, 227
Bergman, Ingrid, 150–51
Bergson, Herbert A., 93
Bernstein, Eugene, 83
Bickford, Albert, 157, 213, 215
Biden, Joseph, 321–22, 326
Biehl, Carl, 294
Billings, Carter, 147
Bioff, Willie, 23–24, 26
IATSE and, 4–5, 24–28, 35–37, 65, 67, 69, 89–90, 112, 226
political associates of, 118–19
Bishop, Harold Eames, 41–42, 48–49
Blacker, Fred (“Bugs”), 23
blacklist, 73–75
Blakey, G. Robert, 235, 242
Bland, George, 231
Bluhdorn, Charles G., 268, 279, 280, 288, 341
Blumberg, Nate J., 26, 220
Blumenthal, Sid, 333
Brazil, 311–12
Brewer, Roy, 65–68, 71–75, 332
Bridges, Harry, 67
Briguglio, Salvatore, 300
Broderick, Helen, 60
Brown, Edmund (“Pat”), 136–37, 232, 238–39, 253
Brown, Jerry, Korshak and, 284–86, 288–91
Browne, George, 23–24
IATSE and, 24–28, 35–37, 65, 67, 69, 89–90, 112, 226
Buchalter, Louis (“Lepke”), 24, 37n
Buchanan, James M., 334–35
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, 319–20
Bush, George, 296, 299, 322, 331–32
Butler, Paul, 137
cable television, 273, 306–307, 309
California:
organized crime in, 285–86
Reagan as governor of, 1, 7, 239, 245, 256–57, 258–59, 266–67, 293
Reagan’s 1970 gubernatorial campaign in, 8, 258–59
Cannon, Lou, 223, 256, 349
Capone, Al, 12, 15, 20–24, 121
Carbo, Frankie, 85–86
Carey, Estelle, 37n
Carter, Jimmy, 8, 291, 306
Wasserman and, 278, 286, 288, 299
Casey, Pat, 25, 70, 85, 89
Casey, William, 294–95, 301
Castro, Fidel, CIA-Mafia’s planned assassination of, 231–32, 235, 246, 276
CBS Artists Bureau, 33, 55
Cermak, Anton, 21–22
Chandler, George, 101, 165n
Chasin, George, 206
Cheshire, Maxine, 303
Chesler, Louis A., 221
Chicago, Ill., organized crime in, 12–15, 20–24, 336–37
Chicago Crime Commission, 39, 84, 337
Chicago Sun-Times, 243
Chicago Tribune, 136
Cinema International Corporation (CIC), MCA as joint owner of, 267–68, 283
Circella, Nick, 23, 25, 37n
City Paper (Moldea and Goldberg), 167n
Civiletti, Benjamin, 318, 324
Clark, Ramsey, 247
Clark, Tom C., 33–34, 58, 66
Clegg, Hugh, 78
Cleopatra, 233
Clift, Montgomery, 132, 152–53
Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles, 283
Cochrane, Robert H., 26, 220
Coffey, Gordon, 53
Cohn, Harry, 26, 28, 74, 88–90, 138
Cole, David L., 144
Coleman, Delbert, 248–50, 262, 291
Collins, Harold F., 49
Colosimo, “Big Jim,” 20
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 33, 97–98, 126, 128, 130–31, 149–50, 193–94
Columbia Pictures, 26, 46, 88–89, 138
Columbia Savings and Loan Association, MCA’s ownership of, 238
Committee to Reelect the President (CRP), 266–67
Commonweal, 69, 72
communications industry, deregulation of, 306–307
Condon, Eddie, 12, 13
Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), IATSE vs., 65–73
Connally, John, 297
Costello, Frank, 87–88, 105, 117
Covey, T. R., 48–9
Cox, Archibald, 343
Dailard, Wayne, 42–43, 48–49, 56
Daily Variety, 35–36, 153–54, 167n, 212n
Dales, John, 101, 102, 141–42, 163, 174, 182
Dalitz, Morris (Moe), 24, 226, 244, 246, 248, 297, 336
D’Andrea, Philip, 24n, 88
Danny Dare Review, 33–34
Dare, Danny, 33–34
Dark Victory, 62
David, Saul, 305–306
Davis, Bette, 30, 62n
Davis, Loyal, 81
Death Valley Days, 237, 239
Decca Record Company:
MCA’s purchase of, 6, 205–206, 209, 210–15, 219–20
Universal purchased by, 104, 131, 205, 221
“Declaring War on Organized Crime” (Reagan), 347–48
“Defense of Organized Crime, A?” (Buchanan), 334–35
DeLaurentiis, Dino, 286
Democratic National Committee, 5, 136–37, 286, 288
Democrats, Democratic Party, 38, 87, 135, 236, 239, 258, 332–33
Denker, Henry, 109, 265–66
DePalma, Gregory, 281–82
Des Moines Register, 61n
Deverich, Nat, 45
Dewey, Thomas, 39
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Disney, Walt, 66, 69–70
Doherty, Frank P., 49
Dolan, Tony, 347
Dome, Louis (Pacella), 282
Donovan, Ray, 298–301, 320–23, 327–29, 343–44
Doonesbury, 290–91
Dorfman, Allen M., 116–17, 226, 260, 290, 326–27
Dorfman, Paul (“Red”), 116–17
Dorsey, Tommy, 17, 45, 53, 57–58
Douglas, William O., 247–48
Drew, Elizabeth, 299
Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA), 321–22
Duchin, Eddy, 16
Duffy, Ben, 108–109
Duffy, John, 329
Dugger, Ronnie, 306–307
Dunne, George H., 69, 72
Eagle-Lion Studios, 83, 88, 99
Economics of Crime and Punishment, The, 334
Edwards, Blake, 151
Eisenhower, Dwight, 231
elections:
of 1964, 235–36
of 1966, 238–39
of 1968, 255, 257, 275, 286
of 1970, 8, 258–59
of 1972, 266
of 1976, 275–76, 278
of 1980, 8, 292–99
of 1982, 325–26
of 1984, 328, 332–34
Ellington, Duke, 13, 32, 43–44
Emerson, Ryan Quade, 318
English, Glenn, 331
Everett, Marjorie, 288–90
Fabricant, Geraldine, 312–13
Factor, John (“Jake the Barber”), 120, 226–27
Max Factor Company, 120–21
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 2, 74, 117, 315–17
CRP investigated by, 266–67
Korshak investigated by, 121, 134, 137–38, 225–29, 232
MCA investigated by, 33–34, 54–56, 93, 103, 132–33, 146n, 147–48, 154, 163–65, 213
organized crime investigated by, 242–44, 281–82, 290, 301, 318–19, 321–23, 344–45
Reagan as informant for, 5, 78–79
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 33, 128–29, 146, 155–57, 306–307
Feldman, Charles, 100
Ferraro, Geraldine A., 333–34
Fielding, Fred, 301, 319, 328
Fifty-seventh Madison Corporation, 256
film industry:
Communist influence in, 36–37, 66–67, 70, 72–75, 78–79, 81–82
conglomerates in, 251–55
financial disasters in, 233–34, 257–58
HUAC investigation of, 72–74
MCA as artist representative in, 30–32, 45–46, 81, 92–93, 131, 148–54, 164, 206
MCA as producer and distributor in, 3, 5, 7, 8, 148–50, 176, 205–206, 219, 221, 233, 258, 269–71, 310, 311
monopolistic practices of, 46–47
organized crime’s infiltration of, 4–5, 24–28, 73, 86
Reagan as actor in, 5, 61–64, 79–80, 109n, 183, 235
Reagan’s gubernatorial decisions beneficial to, 7, 253
strikes in, 26, 67–71, 89–91, 306
see also specific studios
Finch, Robert, 239
Findlater, Jack, 264–65
Finley, Larry, 41–44, 48–49, 56, 113
Finley v. MCA, 48–50, 56, 114, 206
Firestone, Leonard, 238, 255
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, 255
Fitting, Paul, 42–44
Flanagan, James F., III, 338
Fonda, Henry, 310
Ford, Frederick W., 146
Ford, Gerald, 275–76
Ford Star Time Show, 150–51
Formosa, Johnny, 154
Fowler, Mark, 306–307
Fox, William, 27
Foy, Brian, organized crime connections of, 61–62, 83, 88
Foy, Eddie, Jr., 62
Fratianno, James, 85, 232, 281–82, 298, 336–38
Frederick Brothers Agency, 43–44, 48
Freedom of Information Act, 2, 320
Friar’s Club cheating scandal, 230–31
Fricano, John, 166, 167–201
Friedman, Allen, 344
Friedman, Maurice, 230–31
Furino, Fred, 323
Gambino, Carlo, 281–82
Garner, James, 143–44, 314–15
General Accounting Office (GAO), U.S., 317, 322, 327
General Amusement Company, 32, 42–43, 57–58
General Electric Theater, 7, 108–109, 149, 167, 203
cancellation of, 222–24
in conflict of interest controversy, 6, 139–40, 143
MCA-Revue deal for, 194–98, 200–201
Reagan’s article on, 114–15
in Reagan’s grand jury testimony, 188–201
Reagan’s speaking tours for, 188, 193, 199–200, 223–24, 235
Genis, Samuel, 135–36
Gergen, David, 319
Gerth, Jeff, 278–79, 341
Giancana, Sam, 154, 231, 274
Gilliam, Terry, 311–12
Gioe, Charles, 5, 24n, 37–38, 61n, 83–84, 91, 117n
Glasser, Ira, 321
Glaser, Joseph G., 14, 40, 117, 228
Glimco, Joey, 116–17, 121
Goetz, Bill, 92–93
Gojack, Mary, 296–97
Goldberg, Jeff, 167n
Goldblatt, Joel, 71n
Goldstock, Ronald, 344
Goldwater, Barry, 7, 118–19, 235–36
Goodheart, William R. (Billy), 4, 15–16, 29–30
Goodman, Benny, 12, 13, 45
Gottlieb, Bob, 254
Grable, Betty, 30
Gradle, Harry, 15
Grant, Cary, 153, 166, 273, 308
Green, William, 68
Greenbaum, Gus, 118–19
Greenberg, Alex Louis, 135–36
Grim Reapers, The (Reid), 37n, 234n
Guiness, Alec, 150, 221
Gulf & Western, 250, 257, 268, 279, 286, 288–89
Guzik, Jake (“Greasy Thumb”), 21, 38, 118–19, 121
Haber, Joyce, 273, 279
Haddock, George B., 56
Halley, Rudolph, 87–88
Hansen, Victor R., 125, 132
Harding, Warren G., 25
Harlow, Jean, 24
Hauser, Joseph, 338–39
Hays, Will, 25–26
Hayward, Leland, 45, 50
Hayward-Deverich Agency, 32, 45, 55
Heflin, Van, 180
Hefner, Hugh, 284, 338, 342
Heidt, Horace, 45
Hentoff, Nat, 279
Hersh, Seymour M., 278–79, 341
Heymann, Robert, 261–62
Heymann, Walter, 71n, 145, 261
Hill, Virginia, 85–86
Hilton, Barron, 339–42, 348
Hitchcock, Alfred, 148–49, 270
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 149–50
Hodges, Joy, 61
Hodkinson, W. W., 25
Hoffa, James R., 246, 300
J. F. Kennedy’s assassination and, 234
Korshak and, 116–17, 118n, 134, 225–27, 229–30
Laxalt and, 259–60
Hollander, Bernard M., 112–13
Hollings, Ernest, 326
Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of Arts, Sciences and Professions (HICCASP), 78
Hollywood Reporter, 36, 63–64, 75, 114–15, 153–54
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 222
home video rentals, 310–11
Hoover, J. Edgar, 33–34, 132, 245, 322
Hope, Bob, 142
House of Representatives, U.S.:
Select Committee on Assassinations, 234n, 235
Special Subcommittee on Labor, 71–72, 73
Un-American Activities Committee, 5, 72–75, 132
Hover, Herman D., 113–14
Hubler, Richard C., 202, 238–39
Hudgins, Willie L., 272–73, 277
Hugel, Max, 295–96, 301
Hughes, Howard, 104–105, 231, 274
in Las Vegas, 245–48
Laxalt and, 245�
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Humphreys, Murray, 116–17, 232
Illinois Liquor Control Board, 227, 289
“Impact: Organized Crime Today, The,” 348
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 21, 23, 27, 35, 39, 106, 134, 158, 268, 315, 319
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), 6, 23, 100, 141
CSU vs., 65–73
organized crime’s control of, 4–5, 24–28, 35–37, 65–67, 69, 72, 112, 226–27
Wasserman honored by, 269
International Business Machines, Inc. (IBM), 288, 310
International Management Associates, Ltd., 211
International Pictures, 26, 220
Jackson, Donald L., 75
Jacobson, Joel R., 341, 342
Jaffe, F. Filmore, 48
Jaffee, Henry, 126
James, Harry, 17, 30, 57
Jaws, 271
jazz, organized crime’s interest in, 12–13, 15
Johnson, Lyndon B., 236
Jones, Jerry, 48–49
Jones, Lindsey (“Spike”), 31–32, 34
Justice Department, U.S., 33, 106, 242
Antitrust Division of, 31–33, 57–58, 93, 103, 110, 117, 125–26, 132, 145–47, 149, 151, 155–58, 161, 202, 204–206, 210–16, 247, 254, 270, 277–78, 283, 306–307, 313
documents of, 18–19, 22, 23, 33, 46, 78, 81, 101, 133, 153, 186n, 222n
MCA investigated by, 2–3, 6, 31–34, 42–44, 52–58, 111, 113, 117, 123–29, 145–54, 155–60, 161–63, 270, 272
SAG investigated by, 113–14
Kallen, Kitty, 30
Kalver, Roy L., 112
Karl, Harry, 138, 230
Karl, Joan Cohn, 138
Katleman, Beldon, 107–108, 229, 231
Katz, Michael, 120
Katz, Sam, 23–24, 26, 28
Kaufman, David, 212n
Kaufman, Irving R., 328, 348–49
Kazan, Elia, 74
Kearns, Carroll D., 72, 73
Kefauver, Estes, 87, 90–92, 135, 158
Kennedy, John F., 6, 154, 216, 222, 276
organized crime implicated in assassination of, 234–35, 338–39
Kennedy, Joseph P., 26
Kennedy, Robert F., 6, 119–20, 155–56, 161, 164–65, 207, 216, 259–60
Kenneworth Music, 15
Kerkorian, Kirk, 252, 267–68
Kibre, Jeff, 35, 67
Killers, The, 235
Kingmaker, The (Denker), 265–66
Kintner, Robert, 126–27, 147, 158
Kissinger, Henry A., 273
Kleindienst, Richard, 338
Knoedelseder, William, 317
Kolod, Ruby, 244
Korshak, Harry, 279–80
Korshak, Judith, 228
Korshak, Marshall, 38, 91, 134, 227–28
Korshak, Sidney R., 2, 6, 91–92, 141–42, 240n, 303, 334–50
in CIC negotiations, 268
Fratianno’s testimony on, 336–38
government investigations of, 7, 38–40, 91–92, 119–21, 134–35, 137–38, 225–29, 232, 268
Hilton and, 339–42, 348
Hoffa and, 116–17, 118n, 134, 225–27, 229–30