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Wolper is one of Hollywood's most successful film and television producers, with over half a century of career highlights that include winning multiple Emmys and an Oscar, and producing cult favorite Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics. He's boastful about his accomplishments, but then, if you had brought the nation to a standstill for an entire week with Roots, would you keep quiet about it? After a quick recounting of his early career, Wolper gets right into the good stuff, beginning with a 1958 television program about the space race that jump-started his career as an independent television documentary producer; later, he introduced Jacques Cousteau to American audiences and created the first Biography series in 1965. He branched out into corporate films, produced work for both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, and expanded his TV work to include historical recreations, first for documentaries and later for TV movies. Although he recalls most of the behind-the-scenes complications with good humor, Wolper is clearly still frustrated by television critics' questions about fictional distortions in his earliest docudramas and vigorously defends his commitment to accuracy, even going out of his way to mention that Oliver Stone's JFK "outraged" him. As the shows start piling up, Wolper's chronology occasionally blurs, but the overwhelming array of celebrity anecdotes will easily distract readers from his occasional missteps. Photos.
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One of the earliest and most respected of Hollywood's independent television producers, Wolper (b. 1928) is forever linked to the miniseries Roots, based on Alex Haley's book. The epic not only established the miniseries as a prestigious medium and garnered big ratings but also proved a landmark in the history of American civil rights. With a refreshing lack of pretension and justifiable pride, Wolper relates how he and television matured together. Always a "hands-on" producer, he scorns today's Hollywood scene in which "getting a producing credit is only slightly more difficult than getting a library card." He recalls an early trial-and-error approach to producing documentaries, as well as the challenges, setbacks, and outright embarrassments (he admits to selling out when he made a thing called Do Blondes Have More Fun?). Anecdotes reveal famous people he has met along the way, including Jacques Cousteau and First Lady Betty Ford, and there are occasional moments of real-life drama when his producing duties put him in the center of world events, like the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre. Throughout, Wolper maintains a conversational and candid tone. This portrait of a vanishing breed in Hollywood is recommended for large public and academic film and TV history collections.
Stephen Rees, Levittown Regional Lib., PA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Wolper is one of Hollywood's most successful film and television producers, with over half a century of career highlights that include winning multiple Emmys and an Oscar, and producing cult favorite Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics. He's boastful about his accomplishments, but then, if you had brought the nation to a standstill for an entire week with Roots, would you keep quiet about it? After a quick recounting of his early career, Wolper gets right into the good stuff, beginning with a 1958 television program about the space race that jump-started his career as an independent television documentary producer; later, he introduced Jacques Cousteau to American audiences and created the first Biography series in 1965. He branched out into corporate films, produced work for both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, and expanded his TV work to include historical recreations, first for documentaries and later for TV movies. Although he recalls most of the behind-the-scenes complications with good humor, Wolper is clearly still frustrated by television critics' questions about fictional distortions in his earliest docudramas and vigorously defends his commitment to accuracy, even going out of his way to mention that Oliver Stone's JFK "outraged" him. As the shows start piling up, Wolper's chronology occasionally blurs, but the overwhelming array of celebrity anecdotes will easily distract readers from his occasional missteps. Photos.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
One of the earliest and most respected of Hollywood's independent television producers, Wolper (b. 1928) is forever linked to the miniseries Roots, based on Alex Haley's book. The epic not only established the miniseries as a prestigious medium and garnered big ratings but also proved a landmark in the history of American civil rights. With a refreshing lack of pretension and justifiable pride, Wolper relates how he and television matured together. Always a "hands-on" producer, he scorns today's Hollywood scene in which "getting a producing credit is only slightly more difficult than getting a library card." He recalls an early trial-and-error approach to producing documentaries, as well as the challenges, setbacks, and outright embarrassments (he admits to selling out when he made a thing called Do Blondes Have More Fun?). Anecdotes reveal famous people he has met along the way, including Jacques Cousteau and First Lady Betty Ford, and there are occasional moments of real-life drama when his producing duties put him in the center of world events, like the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre. Throughout, Wolper maintains a conversational and candid tone. This portrait of a vanishing breed in Hollywood is recommended for large public and academic film and TV history collections.
Stephen Rees, Levittown Regional Lib., PA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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