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...straight business proposition, and it began, as all sports ventures do today, with television negotiations. The record $87 million price that NBC had attached to the U.S. rights at the Moscow Games in 1980 seemed a lot, but apparently not to Movie Producer David L. Wolper, chairman of the L.A.O.O.C.'s TV committee. "Getting the Games does two things for a network," says Wolper. "One, it sells sponsorships and gets its initial investment back. But also, the Olympics has by far the highest rating during that period of July and August. So the network has the opportunity to publicize...
...while he was still dubbing the sound track of Rocky III. "A friend in Paris told me he'd already seen the film on videotape and that it was excellent," says Winkler. "At the same time, they were running it in British pubs and charging admission." Producer David Wolper says that after he completed the picture This Is Elvis, he found that "a projectionist in Chicago was copying the second reel of my movie while he was showing the first reel...
...David L. Wolper, Executive Producer
...write her "documented novel" on the life of the Lakota Sioux in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Published a year ago to rave reviews, the 834-page novel stayed on the bestseller lists for 28 weeks and sold more than 125,000 hard-cover copies. Producer David Wolper bought television rights and is preparing a miniseries. But now Indians have launched a campaign to discredit Hill and her book and to kill the TV project...
Deloria, Gurnoe, Archambault, Medicine and others have formed an ad hoc committee to lobby against Hanta Yo. Wolper, who sees a golden television property turning to lead, has proposed setting up a Sioux advisory board. For the lobbyists, that is not enough: at week's end they were still demanding that the TV project be killed...