Director Barry Avrich has been threatened, followed and pressured to stop making this documentary! Lew Wasserman was a movie mogul who used politics, the mafia, and fear to keep the entire industry on a leash. As Chairman and CEO of MCA and then Universal, Wasserman was the undisputed King of Hollywood. During his 59-year career, he worked with everyone from Hitchcock to Spielberg, James Stewart to Kevin Costner.