Word: jastrow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congressional Office of Technology Assessment declared the prospect of an effective missile & defense "so remote that it should not serve as the basis for public expectations or national policy." But the concept does have its well-placed supporters, including George Keyworth, the President's science adviser, and Robert Jastrow, founder of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City...
Along with Henry's adventures in history, Wouk has constructed various subplots involving Henry's family, particularly his son Byron (Jan-Michael Vincent), and Natalie Jastrow (Ali MacGraw), the American Jew Byron woos and marries. Natalie is an impetuous and headstrong woman who works as secretary to her Uncle Aaron (Houseman), a cultivated historian who lives in Bernard Berenson-style splendor outside Siena...
...woman who played Natalie Jastrow was supposed to be about 33, "a big, dark Jewish girl," in Wouk's words. He wanted her so Jewish-looking that her ethnic background would be immediately obvious in several key scenes. The choice: MacGraw, who, though she claims some Jewish ancestry, does not look Jewish. She is honest enough to admit to being 43, but she looks ten years younger...
...filming. Rented Navy destroyers were wired with simulated explosives, set to go off in a chain reaction. By mistake a jittery technician fired them before the cameras were ready to role. It took 35 people to rig them up again. A similar delay occurred during filming at Aaron Jastrow's Tuscan villa, which had been chosen because of its faded golden hues, the result of years of weathering. The owner of the villa was so proud to have her house on TV, however, that before the production crew arrived she had it painted a bright, Day-Glo yellow...
...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 out as he did in the book. Wouk objected that Byron would never do such a thing. Curtis shot it anyway. Says Wouk: "I laughed when he told...