The man responsible for Taxi Driver, Close Encounters, and The Sting -- and Julia's husband when she was starting out. She paints a complicated picture of Michael in DL tome You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again. It was his money that got their career started and when she went wild, he seemed content to meditate and pursue Buddhism. He attended Dartmouth having grown up in Roslyn NY. He was married to Julia! Can you imagine? I cannot.
Fun fact, his son-in-law, MRC ceo Mod Wiczyk, basically runs Hollywood now.