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Three years after Jean Harris fired four bullets into Herman Tarnower, the case of the headmistress and the diet doctor still has the power to engage our imagination. The public's appetite for details of the murder trial had been whetted by the social standing of the protagonists, as Diana Trilling pointed out in her brilliant 1981 study, Mrs. Harris. But the abiding fascination of the case resides in the story of the high-minded, stylish lady who descended to the depths of self-abasement and violence...
Just like "Pug" Henry, the fictional naval officer in Herman Wouk's The Winds of War, Al Wedemeyer secretly met at 10 Downing Street with Churchill and in the White House with Roosevelt. Wedemeyer felt Roosevelt's demand for unconditional surrender in 1943 was a grave error, compelling Germany, which might have turned against Hitler, to fight to the bitter end. Wedemeyer's closest friend from the Kriegsakademie was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who planted the bomb that nearly killed Hitler...
...similarly guarded about plans for filming Herman Wouk's Winds sequel, War and Remembrance. Says ABC Entertainment President Brandon Stoddard: "No decision has been made. The sequel would take from four to six years to produce, and that's a lot more than $40 million right there." One obstacle, at least, has been removed. Wouk's "reservations about moving ahead in that direction" have been put aside by the success of Winds. "I think War and Remembrance is a more powerful story," says Wouk, "but so far no network executives have approached...
...battered leatherbound Talmud that Herman Wouk reads every morning provides instruction for almost everything in life. It failed him, however, when he faced something he had never before attempted: writing a television script. After turning out eight hefty novels and several plays, Wouk found that adapting The Winds of War to the small screen was something he could learn only by doing. Not even his five-year stint of writing radio gags for Comedian Fred Allen in the 1930s prepared him for the task, except that then, as now, he was writing for someone else. "I've come full...
Wouk still ended up writing scenes that Curtis never shot. "One I hated to lose was Hitler and Goring at the Eiffel Tower as they lowered the French flag and raised the Nazi one, and a bereft Frenchman looked on," says Wouk. Author-Adapter Herman Wouk "That was dramatic, I thought." On the other hand, Curtis occasionally requested material that had not appeared in the book; for example, in a scene where Newlyweds Byron Henry and Natalie Jastrow encounter some Nazis in a Lisbon restaurant, Curtis wanted to have Byron slug one of the Nazis, instead of simply walking...