Excerpt from Who Really Controls Hollywood by John Cones

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Paramount Pictures
The top several executives at Paramount since its inception as a distributor in 1914 have been:

Name	Race	Sex	Heritage	Source
W.W. Hodkinson	White	Male
Hiram Abrams	White	Male	Jewish Name
Adolph Zukor	White	Male	Jewish	[Gabler, 119.]
Jesse L. Lasky	White	Male	Jewish	[Sachar, 360.]
Samuel Goldwyn	White	Male	Jewish	[Sachar, 360.]
Manny Cohen	White	Male	Jewish	[Gabler, 341.]
Ernst Lubitsch	White	Male	Jewish	[Sachar, 498 & Wakeman, 692.]
B.P. Schulberg	White	Male	Jewish	[Sachar, 416 & 417.]
Barney Balaban	White	Male	Jewish	[Gabler, 101.]
George Weltner	White	Male
William LeBaron	White	Male
Walter Wanger	White	Male	Jewish	[Gabler, 342.]
Y. Frank Freeman	White	Male	"gentile"	[Gabler, 354.]
Jacob Karp	White	Male	Jewish Name
Martin Rackin	White	Male		[Citizen News, 11-25-65.]
Howard W. Koch	White	Male	Jewish Name
Charlie Bluhdorn	White	Male	Jewish	[Sachar, 654.]
Robert Evans	White	Male	Jewish	[Evans, 13 & Erens, 276.]
Stanley R. Jaffe	White	Male	Jewish	[Erens, 392.]
David Picker	White	Male	Jewish	[Erens, 392.]
Frank Yablans	White	Male	Jewish	[Bart, 70 & Erens, 392.]
Donald C. Simpson	White	Male
Barry Diller	White	Male	Jewish	[Friedman, 76.]
Michael D. Eisner	White	Male	Jewish	[Friedman, 76.]
Jeffrey Katzenberg	White	Male	Jewish Name
Martin S. Davis	White	Male		[Vanity Fair, Feb '94, 69.]
Frank Mancuso	White	Male		[NY Times, 3-21-95.]
Ned Tanen	White	Male	Jewish	[Friedman, 76.]
Dawn Steel	White	Female	Jewish	[Steel, 13.]
Brandon Tartikoff	White	Male	Jewish	[Tartikoff, 192.]
Gary Lucchesi	White	Male
Sherry Lansing	White	Female	Jewish	[Sachar, 834.]
David Kirkpatrick	White	Male
Sid Ganis	White	Male		[Variety, 11-22-88.]
Barry London	White	Male	Jewish Name
John Goldwyn	White	Male	Jewish Name
Sumner Redstone	White	Male	Jewish	[Time, 9-27-93, 74.]

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