Moguls, Monsters and Madmen, page 38
Rawls, Lou 65
Reagan, Nancy 195, 207, 216
Reagan, Ronald 195, 210–11, 215–16, 217, 221, 338
administration: 338
Red Alert 190
Red Cross 103
Redford, Robert 278
Reel Justice 231–32
Regan, Gerald 241
Reibenbach, Tsipi 304
Reiser, Paul 347, 359
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 335
Rent A Fan Club 33–35, 154
Reservoir Dogs 271
Revue Productions 210
Reynolds, Burt 101, 120, 359, 362
Rhapsody in Blue 32
Richard III 122
Richards, Keith 251, 260, 261, 263, 264, 266
Richardson, Bob 163–64, 166–67, 169–70
Rickles, Don 137
Riedel, Michael 317–18
Ritz-Carlton Hotel 235
Rivera, Chita xiii, 39, 53, 317
Rocky (films) 293
Rocky Balboa 293–94, 297, 298
Rocky Balboa Association 294–97
Rocky Balboa Award 296
Rocky Balboa Spa 300
Rocky Balboa statue 293–94, 296–97, 299, 300, 301
Rodriguez, Alfredo 127–28
Rogen, Seth 182
Rogers, Ginger 210
Rolling Stones 151, 152, 250, 256, 259–68, 272
albums: Steel Wheels 260
tours: A Bigger Bang Tour 255p, 265p, 267; The Rolling Stones in Rio 267; Stones Wheels Tour 251
Romancing the Stone 104
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR) 189, 243, 304
Roots 211
Rosenfeld, Jyll 138–40
Rosenstein, Ken 157–59
Rossellini, Roberto 276
Rothschild, Nathan 306, 308
Rourke, Mickey 357
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In 362
Rowlands, Gena 10, 88
Royal Alexandra Theatre 29, 37, 38, 39, 43
Royal York Hotel, The 122–23
Imperial Room at 38, 39
Rupert, Prince 260
Rush 254, 264
Rush, Geoffrey 72
Russell, Craig 87
Russell, Rosalind 10
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute 28–29, 31, 36, 179, 181
Sackman, Jeff 39, 44–45, 179–83, 228–29
Sagan, Carl 336
Saget, Bob 254–55
Samuel, Herbert 309
Sandys, Celia 303, 306
San Francisco Fillmore 260
Sarah, Duchess of York 131
SARSfest, see Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto
Sassafraz 287
Sassoon, Vidal 356, 362
Satisfaction (film) 251, 253p, 265, 266, 268–69, see also Michael Cohl
Saturday Evening Post 211
Saturday Night Live 347
Saving Private Ryan 284
Scales of Justice 241
Scheider, Roy 67
Schell, Maximilian 211
Scherman, Tony 125–26
Schneider, Maria 330
Schomberg, A. Thomas 293–94
School for Scandal 11, 365
Scorsese, Martin 273, 284–85, 316, 341
Scotiabank 85
Scott, George C. 315
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) 210
Screw 340
Scullion, Bridget 177–78
Season in Purgatory, A 203
Sebbag, Steph 77
Second City 350–51
Secret Mulroney Tapes, The 319
Seeger, Pete 252, 352
Segretti, Donald 353
Sehring, Jonathan 288–89
Seinfeld 139, 345, 355, 356
Seinfeld, Jerry 347, 348, 355, 363
Selling the Sizzle 118
Selznick, David O. 196
Serendipity Point Films 78
Seven Samurai 177
Sex and the Single Girl 117
Sex, Lies, and Videotape 277–78, 281
Shakespeare in Love 283–84
Shakira 109–10
Shangri-La Hotel 318
Share the Dream 165, 167, see also Pan Am/Parapan Am Games
Shatner, William 287
Shearer, Norma 119
Sheen, Charlie 158
Sheinberg, Sid xiii, 316, 317
Sheplee’s 31–32
Sheppard, Sam 240
Sherman, Marilyn 76
Sherrington, Amanda 129–30, 131
Sherry, Jim 274
Shetty, Shilpa 108–09
Shining,The 123, 341
Shipley, Don 147
Short, Martin 348
Show Boat 57–60, 64, 314, 317
Show Stopper ix, xi, xiii, xiv, 233, 313–15, 318–19
Shrek the Third 135, 136
Shrimp Kitchen 33
Shultz, Albert 287
Shutter Island 341
Shutters Hotel 105
Sick Kids, see Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
Siegal, Peggy 289
Silent Movie Theatre, The 227
Silent Partner, The 315
Silent Syndicate 209
Simon, Carly 351, 362
Simon, Paul 358–59
Simpson, Nicole Brown 192, 194
Simpson, O.J. 192, 194, 197–99, 202, 240
Sinatra, Frank 79–80, 127, 128, 212, 250
Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg 348
Six Feet Under 222
Skakel Kennedy, Ethel 203, 319
Skakel, Michael 202–04, 319
Skakel, Rushton “Rush” 203–04
Skakel, Thomas 202–04
Skydome 255
Slater, Christian 76
Slobodan Milošević 293
Slumdog Millionaire 130
SmartTrack 170, see also John Tory
Smitherman, George 169–70
Smith, Kevin 286
Smith, Maggie 122
Smith, Rex 62
Smith, Roger 102
Smith-Spencer, Rachel 122–23
Smith, William Kennedy 193
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The 351–52
Smothers, Tommy 352–53
Snitzer, Herb 42
Soderbergh, Steven 278
Solomon, Chuck 258
Soltys, Marty 180–81
Soulpepper Theatre 287
Spader, James 77
Spamalot 257
Special Olympics 103
Spider-Man (musical) 257
Spiegler, Mark 338
Spielberg, Steven 220–21, 284, 348
Spoils of War 29
Sports Illustrated 338
Stackhouse, John 246
Stallone, Sylvester “Sly” 293, 298–99
Stalmaster, Lynn 183
Staparac, Boris 296–97
Star 80 324
Star Chamber,The 232
Star Wars 220, 315
State and Main 298
Steiger, Rod 358
Stein, Jules C. viii, 209–10, 221
Steinberg, David 345–64,
documentary on: see Quality Balls
Steinberg, Robyn 346, 348, 361
Steinberg, Ruth 349
Steinberg, Yasha 349
Steinberg, Ziggy 362
Stephenson, Helga 112–13
Stern, Jeremy 178
St. Eve, Amy J. 244
Stewart, Jimmie viii
Stewart, Jon 345
Stiller, Jerry 139
Sting,The 117, 220
Stone, Oliver 107–08, 290, 316
Strasberg, Lee 183
Stratford Festival 10–11, 121, 143–47, 269, 346, 365
Stratten, Dorothy 324
Streisand, Barbra 221, 250
Stritch, Elaine xiii, 314–15, 317, 318, 319p
Stymiest, Barbara 85
Sullivan & Cromwell 244
Sullivan, Dan 351
Sullivan, Ed 11, 137
Sun Always Sets, The 32
Sundance Film Festival 113, 225, 277
Sun Life Financial Canada 85
Sunset Boulevard 10, 61–62, 88
Sunset Marquis Hotel 214, 218, 254, 338
Sutton Agency 203
Swaggart, Jimmy 338
Swanson, Gloria 10
Tabarrok, Rey 90, 91
Talk (magazine) 283
Talk Radio 316
Taming of the Shrew,The 11, 145
Tarantino, Quentin 271, 274, 284, 286
Taylor, Elizabeth 63, 195, 196
Taylor, Robert 88
Tempest, The 11, 71, 148, 149, 346
The Movie Network (TMN) 192
ThinkFilm 227, 228
ThisBusiness of Concert Promotion and Touring 259
Thomas, Jackie 95–96
TIFF, see Toronto International Film Festival
Timberlake, Justin 264
Time (magazine) 15, 333
Time Inc. 220
Titanic 189
Tomlin, Lily 345, 354
Tommy, see The Who’sTommy
Tonight Show,The 219, 345, 356–59
Tony Award 53–54, 60, 65–66
Toronto Hospital for Sick Children 134–36, 315
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) xiv, 23, 71–72, 87, 89, 99, 105, 106, 113, 114, 122–23, 165, 176, 190, 233, 288, 313–15, 326, 342
Toronto Star 113, 258, 262–63, 268
Toronto Stock Exchange 85–86
Toronto Sun 244
Tory, John 169–72, 171p
Townshend, Pete 52
Tremblay, Michel 145
Tribute 315
Triple Sensation 70
Trotsky, Leon 309
Truffaut, François 276
Truman, Harry 189
Trump, Donald 337
TSE, see Toronto Stock Exchange
Tucker, Sophie 210
Turner, Kathleen 10, 103–04
Two Mrs. Grenvilles, The 197
U2 250, 262, 263
UforChange 131–32
Ultimate Jew,The 139–40
Unauthorized (film) 270, 286–91, 361, see also Harvey Weinstein
Unforgettable: 100 Years Remembered 186–90
Universal City 211, 223
Universal Pictures 220
Universal Studios 211, 214, 216, 226–27, 290
University of Toronto 32–33, 36
Unlikely Obsession, An 124, 302–12, see also Churchill and the Jews
Untouchables, The 209
Urman, Mark 280, 282
Valenti, Jack 214–15, 221, 224
van der Rohe, Mies 212
van Gogh, Vincent 335
Vanier College 27, 177–79
Vanity Fair 118, 192, 194, 197, 198, 200–01, 204, 205, 212, 227, 244, 283
Van Susteren, Greta 198
Variety (magazine) 11, 231, 279, 318
vaudeville 3, 6
Vidal, Gore 195, 335
Visconti, Luchino 230, 276
Viva 336
Viva Films 76
Viva Las Vegas 102
Virgin Unite 116
Voltaire 62
von Bülow, Claus 197
von Furstenberg, Diane 194
Waddell, Ray 259
Wagner, Robert 195
Wall Street 44, 158
Walsh, M. Emmet 184–86
Walt Disney Company 65–66, 78, 283, 284–86
Walters, Barbara 194, 206
Wasserman, Casey 214
Wasserman, Edie (née Beckerman) 209, 212–13, 217–19, 221, 226, 227, 229
Wasserman, Isaac (née Weiserman) 208
Wasserman, Lew viii, xiii, xv, 45, 208–29, 270, 276, 283, 286, 316
documentary on: see The Last Mogul
Wasserman, Minnie (Weiserman) 208
Weavers 252, 266–67
Webber, Andrew Lloyd 45, 51, 54, 61
Weinstein, Bob “Bobby” 271, 276, 277, 278, 282, 283, 286
Weinstein Company, The 286
Weinstein, Eve (née Chilton) 277
Weinstein, Harvey 77, 113, 228, 270–91, 361
documentary on: see Unauthorized
Weinstein, Max 276, 277
Weinstein, Miriam 274, 276, 277
Weinzweig, John 187
Weiss, Rachel Ann 104–05
Weizmann, Chaim 307–08
Weld, Tuesday 363
Weller, Michael 29
Welles, Orson 10, 89
Welsh, Ken 39–40
Weston, Galen 131
West Side Story 53, 143
Whitehead, Edward 18
White, Todd 228, 272–73
The Who 52
The Who’s Tommy 52–53, 64, 102, 147
Wilder, Billy 62, 210
Wilkinson, Colm 48, 70
Wilkinson, Kendra 321, 324
William Morris (agency) 227
Williams, Robin 283
Williams, Vanessa 54, 334
Winford, Elizabeth 72
Wintour, Anna 336
Woman Under theInfluence, A 88
Wood, Natalie 195
Woodward, Joanne 282, 316
Wonder, Stevie 250
Worth, Irene 144
Wortsman, Irving 32
Wortsman, Sylvia 32
Young Lions, The 211
Young, Loretta 195
Young Presidents Organization (YPO) 150, 152
Zaentz, Saul 283
Zanuck, Richard 220
Zeiger, Scott 119
Zeta-Jones, Catherine 138
Ziegfeld, Florenz 3, 166
Follies 3
Zimel, Perry 287
Znaimer, Moses 123
Zweibel, Alan 347, 362
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BARRY AVRICH is an acclaimed film and television director/producer and a veteran marketing executive. As a marketing professional, Barry has led thousands of cultural marketing campaigns for high-profile clients and films. He is also the author of three marketing books and winner of the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2008, Barry built the Daniels Hollywood Theatre, the world’s first movie theatre in a hospital, at Sick Kids. Barry is also a director of Hot Docs and the Prince’s Charities Trust and has previously served as a director for TIFF and the Canadian Opera Company. He lives in Toronto.
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Moguls, monsters and madmen : an uncensored life in show business / Barry Avrich.
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