Word: wolper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hollywood: The Great Stars (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Henry Fonda narrates another David Wolper documentary about Hollywood...
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*David Wolper's history of Hollywood, Part II. The age of sound...
...David Wolper documentary on the Du Pont Show of the Week, made Hollywood war movies look like so much stagecraft...
Space was just getting boffo. TV at the time was reeking with quiz scandals, and Wolper decided that the respectable public-affairs bit held the treasuries of the future. He made his celebrated Race for Space, but the networks refused to show it, saying that they would never broadcast a public-affairs show over which they had not had total production control. So Wolper sold the program to 110 stations around the country, gaining as much exposure as he could have gotten on any network, plus major stories in the papers about the wretched treatment he was getting from...
...Good Life. The son of a Manhattan real estate man, Wolper now lives quietly and richly in the canyoned subtropics of Los Angeles' Bel Air. where real estate is so expensive that a single sunbather can cover $2,000 worth of land...