Word: paramounts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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. I interviewed about 20 people connected with the program: Jan-Michael Vincent at his favorite Malibu hangout...
...sequel, War and Remembrance, and he jealously guarded the results of his labor. For years he had no trouble resisting the persistent blandishments of film and TV executives. Finally, in 1977, under the ministrations of Barry Diller, a former ABC executive who had become chairman of Paramount, an extraordinary offer won him over. ABC paid Wouk an estimated $1.5 million, gave him approval of director and producer and, to meet his desire for a high-toned context, allowed him some say over commercials (he wanted none for such things as toilet paper and feminine-hygiene products). Furthermore, ABC agreed...
...direct the project, Paramount executives were convinced that they needed a general as much as an artist. They turned to Dan Curtis, 55. Though he had an unimpressive list of credits, including a couple of horror movies and the soap opera Dark Shadows, they felt sure that he had the passion, talent and physical stamina for the job. Wouk was put off by Curtis' record. Only after Paramount sent him two nonhorrific Curtis TV specials did the novelist agree to see him. "He came to my home, but he wasn't wearing the bar mitzvah suit I figured...
...Daniel A. Sherkow of Paramount Theater said yesterday that Sellars had "a rather parochial way of looking at the show. We took certain liberties that be regarded as Vegas-style embellishments...
...logistics for O'Neill's trip to the Paramount studio were worked out Sunday night, and on Monday morning, the executive producers of "Cheers" worked feverishly to write the dialogue...