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...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...
...sophistication and cost, culminating in ABC's The Winds of War, this week's cover story. "Everything about this show was big, including the number of people who worked on it," comments Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell of the 18-hr. TV epic that is based on Herman Wouk's 1971 bestseller. "I caught Producer-Director Dan Curtis on the Paramount lot, working on the last Winds of War episode. I drove to Montecito, a suburb south of Santa Barbara, to talk with Robert Mitchum, a gifted storyteller who answers almost every question with an anecdote...
...newspaper and magazine ads-well over a billion "impressions" in all. If these projections are accurate, then doubtless you already have the word: on Sunday, at 8 p.m. E.S.T., ABC will begin broadcasting the most expensive, most spectacular mini-series ever made, a $40 million, 18-hr, adaptation of Herman Wouk's 1971 novel, The Winds...
...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...