Q&A with showbiz power broker Irv Weintraub: Why doesn’t Hollywood give Jewish?
\” . . . We have one thing that\’s not happening now that happened then, which was the memory of the Holocaust. We are 50-plus years removed. The urgency that existed then doesn\’t exist today. The Federation campaign did better with Lou Wasserman — people didn\’t tell him no. There isn\’t that iconic person like Lou who is willing to be identified publicly with their Judaism . . .\”