Word: wolper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Survival Diet. Wolper Productions (The Making of the President, 1960 and 1964; the Jacques Cousteau series) agreed to gamble on Holden with a series of perhaps nine African documentaries. After he outlined his intentions and explained the terrain, Producer David Seltzer concluded that U.S. cameramen were out of the question ("Those American prima donnas would have been on strike an hour after they got here"). Seltzer recruited a Dutch crew and 21 African assistants. The expedition could have saved thousands of dollars and two weeks' time by flying directly into the lake from Nairobi. But Holden and Seltzer ruled...
...foot through several miles of country overrun with predators. The crew arrived in time to catch the Samburus reeling into a catatonic frenzy. Then the tribal elder drew his knife. The cameraman closed in so tight that he got blood on his camera. And Bill Holden, who, as one Wolper man put it, had played it all along like "the essential Hemingway man," admitted that suddenly he grew "weak in the knees." Later, the chief's son, speaking with a crisp upper-school British accent, explained to Holden that he had attended the ceremony as a gesture to please...
...London boutique had never been so busy-or boasted so attractive a sales staff. Senta Berger was minding the store while a gaggle of tourists poked through the merchandise. But next day, both Senta and her customers were gone. They were all players in David Wolper's new film, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, which travels across Europe by bus, flashing past such scenic beauties as Miss Berger, Virna Lisi, Anita Ekberg, Catherine Spaak, Joan Collins and Elsa Martinelli. All in all, quite a package for the tour...
...dismissed Couples as an upper-middle-class Peyton Place. It isn't, but it is getting a sensational reception all the same. Only three weeks after publication, the novel is on the bestseller lists. Knopf ordered a huge first printing of 70,000 copies, and Hollywood's Wolper Productions paid $500,000 for the movie rights...
From Cunning to Frenzy. ABC put on Wolper Productions' three-part documentary based on William L. Shirer's exhaustive 1959 history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. "Historical villains can sometimes become heroes as the years pass," says Producer-Director Jack Kaufman. "I think it's important to remind young people not to dismiss past horrors lightly or think of Hitler as a kind of fantasy or legend...