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AMERIKA (ABC). The year's most overdiscussed and underappreciated mini-series painted a bleak picture of the U.S. under Soviet rule. But instead of right- wing politics, Writer-Director Donald Wrye offered a richly textured and beautifully acted (especially by Christine Lahti and Kris Kristofferson) rumination on Americans in crisis...
...would hope that it's not [politically] slanted at all," added Butler, noting that writer-producer Donald Wrye is a self-described "Kennedy Democrat...
...claims that the show is about America, not about the Soviet Union. "As a writer [Wrye] set out to write a fiction. It could just as well have been about lizards, except CBS did it already--it was called "V," said Butler...
...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...
...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. "It's okay in Top Gun for Tom Cruise to shoot down Russian planes. That's much more scary...