Remembering Al Capone's Hollywood Heavy
Author and film historian Neal Gabler has a rip-roaring piece in the July issue of Playboy about Willie Bioff, a Russian Jewish immigrant who wreaked havoc in 1930s era Hollywood. The article is chock-full of great anecdotes, beginning with the very cinematic way Bioff bid adieu to the world (his car was blown sky high in Phoenix).
The crux of Bioff’s rise to power was leveraging control of the country’s film projectionists through IATSE. After a corrupt pal was installed as union president in 1935, all bets were on.
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