Word: wolper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first the design of Roots: The Next Generations was not nearly so clear as it is now. Right after the airing of Roots 1, Stoddard, Margulies and Executive Producer David Wolper were reluctant to make a sequel. Little by little, however, they started exploring the possibilities: Haley began dictating family recollections into a tape recorder to expand the 40-page modern section of his book. Once Haley had spilled 1,000 pages of memories, Television Writer Ernest Kinoy (The Defenders, Playhouse 90) got to work on a "bible" for the show. Kinoy turned in a 350-page outline...
Quite a few of his fellow men, however, were more than ever interested in his riches, and the scramble was beginning for the money-or at least part of the action. Producer David Wolper trumpeted that he would make a film about Hughes titled-guess what?- The Billionaire. It will hardly be factual, since he intends to base it on the fake "autobiography" of Hughes that Writer Clifford Irving foisted on LIFE and McGraw-Hill before he was jailed for fraud. Hughes' former chef, Garry Reich, said that he was ready to sell the recipe for the fudge that...
...James S. Wolper '76, an announcer with WHRB, said yesterday that he discovered the transmitter failure about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday and station engineers have not been able to fix the problem...
...myriad of other chemicals-worth only about $5, even at today's inflated prices. That is the strange machinery of the human body. It appears in unprecedented and almost incredible detail this week on the Public Broadcasting Service (see facing page). Produced by the National Geographic Society and Wolper Productions, created by Irwin Rosten and narrated by Actor E.G. Marshall, the hour-long film is entitled, naturally enough, The Incredible Machine. It uses microscopy, X rays and telescopic lenses tiny enough to penetrate the body's innermost recesses to capture the color, texture and activities of the heart...
...around $1,000, ten times as much as writings by his gifted brother Edwin Booth. Benedict Arnold's three-page will sold for $2,800. Two known letters from Jesse James are worth between $5,000 and $10,000. Documents of Nazi leaders command high prices. Producer David Wolper, a collector of note, has a Christmas card that was sent by Al Capone to, of all people, George Bernard Shaw. Its message: "May our rackets live forever." Among other curiosa, Dealer Hamilton has a 1969 letter from Patty Hearst valued by the seller...