The role-players may look different but Hollywood has not really changed since the days of studio moguls.

They hark back to another, very different model of businessman: the 1930s studio mogul.

Ince was active in the earliest days of the industry, involved with more than 100 films, and a pioneering studio mogul.

The governor's staff has sounded a tone more befitting cutthroat studio moguls.

The idea of doing such a thing was anathema to the studio moguls.

As important as the stars are the studio moguls who work behind the scenes, using their clout and business smarts to press associates for contributions.

But more than anyone else in today's Hollywood, this 46-year-old executive has been compared with old-line studio moguls.

She has built some of you, in a sense, like the old studio moguls used to build images for their stars.

Like the studio moguls of yore, he knows how to read popular taste and cater to it.

For all that, Mr. Roth has sometimes expressed doubts about being a studio mogul, particularly if he is not allowed to run his own show.