Word: baerwald
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Childs' collaborator in much of the writing and production of the album was David Ricketts, who with David Baerwald created one of the seminal albums of the '80s, 1986's Boomtown. Ricketts and Childs lived together and worked together, and Union has much to do with their affair. Childs signed with A&M records and moved in with Ricketts on the same day. She moved out 16 months later, with memories enough for an album and with a professional relationship that endures. "We couldn't live together," she says now. "We both push too many buttons in each other...
...other networks professed polite corporate pleasure at Winds' success. Says Susan Baerwald, NBC's vice president for miniseries: "Winds was a gamble for ABC, and I'm thrilled it paid off. It gives the mini-series another lease on life." NBC is cranking up 15 new miniseries, CBS is playing it conservative with only three, and ABC will admit to having only two in the works. One of them, the ten-hour The Thorn Birds, will air starting in late March...