Cast of characters -- The lawyer from Lawndale -- From Lawndale to the Seneca to the underworld -- Birds of a feather -- Kaddish for California -- The future is in real estate -- "Hell, that's what you had to do in those days to get by." -- Scenes from Hollywood, part one -- Jimmy, Bobby and Sidney -- Years in the desert -- The kingmakers : Paul, Lew and Ronnie in California -- The new frontier -- Bistro days -- "He could never walk away from those people." -- Scenes from Hollywood, part two -- "A sunny place for shady people" -- Coming under attack -- From Hoffa to Hollywood -- From Dutch sandwiches to Dutch Reagan -- Airing dirty laundry and laundering dirty money -- Pursued by the Fourth Estate -- The true untouchables -- Legacies