All that was missing was a small boy to tug at Lew Wasserman's sleeve and plead, "Say it ain't so, Lew."
Central Casting could not have supplied a better chorus of worriers than the screenwriters, politicians and just plain citizens who weighed in last week after MCA chairman Wasserman announced that he was selling Universal Pictures and the rest of the MCA entertainment giant to Matsushita Electric Industrial for $6.1 billion. How could he, they asked, sell to foreigners the studio that made To Kill a Mockingbird, Jaws, E.T., Born on the Fourth of July and Back to the Future? The...
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