Paramount’s Adolph Zucker. MGM’s Louis B. Mayer. Carl Laemmle of Universal. From Columbia to Warner Brothers, the studios that gave rise to Hollywood were all founded and run by Eastern European immigrants or first-generation American [...]
When he called himself “a skinny kid with a funny name” at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, his star was already rising. By the time he triumphed in the 2004 Illinois Senate race, he was [...]