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To: BillyG who wrote (46221)	10/19/1999 3:23:00 AM
From: Humblefrank	Respond to of 50808

OT Well It's not published yet, so I'm not sure exactly what it will be called. Either "Media-State: How Organized Crime took over Hollywood, Murdered the President and Created an unholy alliance between the Media and the State" or "Media Coup: How Hollywood and Organized Crime took over America" Part of what motivated me to write it was losing money on Cube, which contributed to my anger against the MPAA. Maybe I'll put a chapter here, but it's kind of off-topic. It's basically done, but it's kind of controversial so I have to be careful. Part of the book is about a series of libel suits against people who exposed mob ties of media moguls. Almost all the major media moguls had mob ties. All the MPAA studios did until fairly recently. In the early days the theater chains were more powerful than the actual studios and the theater chains were closely tied with Tammany Hall and other big city machines. For example, Arnold Rothstein owned stock in MGM. Rothstein was the man who fixed the World Series in 1919. Rothstein made sure MGM had the best locations for their theaters so MGM became the number one studio.