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...After. In a 1983 newspaper column, Author and Critic Ben Stein (The View from Sunset Boulevard) proposed that to balance that film's allegedly liberal tilt the network ought to make a movie about what life in the U.S. would be like under a Soviet regime. Brandon Stoddard, then head of ABC movies and mini-series and now programming chief, hired Wrye to develop the idea. Envisioned as a three- hour TV movie, the project grew into a 1,350-page script, which was eventually pruned to a more manageable 570 pages...
...show started drawing fire even before it went into production. In December 1985, Soviet officials attacked the movie as another example of Hollywood Red-bashing and hinted at possible repercussions for ABC News' Moscow bureau. The project was put on hold temporarily (only to make budget revisions, Stoddard now says), but shooting went ahead last March. Soviet officials have since expressed interest in buying the show for telecast in their country. "It would be useful if Soviet TV viewers were shown how public opinion in the U.S.A. is formed," says Leonid Kravchenko, deputy chairman of Gosteleradio, the Soviet agency...
...Program Chief Stoddard charges that the onslaught of protest against Amerika before the show is even finished is an attempt at "precensorship of ideas." The movie, he insists, is not an anti-Soviet tract but a rumination on what it means to be American: "I think it can make people ask some questions about their behavior as citizens. It might even make them think about the responsibility part of freedom." Wrye, who describes himself as a Kennedy Democrat, says he "wasn't remotely interested in doing something anti-Soviet" and charges that opponents of the movie have a double standard...
...York, Ron Guidry is washed up and Joe Niekro has a 9.71 earned runs average in his last eight starts. The Yankees last week started two pitchers, Al Holland and Tim Stoddard, who had not started for four years. Meanwhile, in Baltimore, manager Earl Weaver was using former Cy Young award winner Mike Flanagan in relief. The only team in the division whose record matches up with Boston's against the East is the Toronto Blue Jays. The Red Sox are certainly not one of baseball's all-time great teams, but for the rest of the year they should...
...Stoddard in the 1979 World Series...