et al.: SU Variety II SPECIAL 'GOIN' HOLLYWOOD' EDITION II NEWSPAPER Second Class P.O. Entry Supplement to Syracuse University Magazine CURTIS: IN MINIS Role Credits! "War" Series Is All-Time Screen Dream Syracuse- We couldn't pos­ sibly get 'em all, but in these 8 By RENEE LEVY series "Winds of War," based on to air in late spring and the entire pages find another 40-plus SU Hollywood- The longest. The Herman Wouk 's epic World War II package will air in Europe next year. alumni getting billboards on most demanding. The hardest. The novels, "War and Remembrance" Curtis, exec producer, director the boulevard. In our research, most expensive. That's the story was shot in 757 locations in 10 and co-scribe of the teleplay, spent we discovered a staggering net­ behind Dan Curtis 'SO's block­ countries, using more than 44,000 two years filming and a year and a work of Syracusans in the busi­ buster miniseries " War and Re­ actors and extras and nearly 800 half editing "War and Remem­ ness-producers, directors, membrance," which aired the first sets. The production- the longest brance," a project he originally actors, editors, and more! We 18 of its 30 hours in November on in television history--cost an es­ considered undoable-particular­ soon realized that all of them ABC-TV. timated $ 105 million to make. The ly because of the naval battles and would not fit, and to those left A sequel to Curtis's 1983 maxi- concluding 12 hours are expected the depiction of the Holocaust. on the cutting-room floor: Known to industry insiders for regrets. Know that this healthy his incredible energy and tenacity, sampling represents you all: Curtis refused to give up. He spent Syracusans 'gone Holly­ nearly two years negotiating with wood.'-ed. the Polish government for the right to film at Auschwitz. For the fi rst time ever, the death camp was opened to the crew of a dramatic Frons launches film. Curtis's Auschwitz sequenc­ es are thought by many to be the Soap Sensation most accurate portrayal of the Final Solution and certainly some Hollywood- NBC is making of the most graphic footage seen history as the first network to on network television. launch a daytime drama focusing Telling the story of the war took on blacks. "Generations," the nearly I 0 years of Curtis's life, but newest NB C soap, will feature (Continued on page 5) daytime television's first "core" black family. Inside The show, preeming March 26, is a con tempo social drama center­ POST-PROD ing on the relationships of two • Adler's Post Group is tops Chicago fam ilies, one black and in music-vid market . 2 one white, whose lives have been linked for many years. TOP BRASS Guiding "Generations" is Brian e Takeover has Leider's lTC Frons G'78, NBC E n terta in­ on the move . 5 ment's veepee of daytime pro­ grams. If his record i s a ny ROLE CHANGE indication, the show should be a hit. e Fred Silverman is back, (Continued on page 4) Miniseries King Dan Curtis. selling hit series . 6 Published by SURFACE, 1989 1 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 5, Iss. 3 [1989], Art. 6 2 BUSINESS UfRJETY Former Columbia Adler's Post Group Goes Gold Exec Casts His In Music-Vid Postproduction Line Elsewhere Los Angeles-The former top­ per of talent and casting at Colum­ By MARY ELLEN MENGUCCI organization provides. bia/Embassy Television, Marc Los Angeles-The Post Group, The Post Group's clientele, in Hirschfeld ' 78, has formed his an L.A. postproduction firm that addition to music-vid prods, in­ own casting co. with partner Meg adds an array of finishing touches cludes an assortment of directors Liberman. to some of Hollywood's finest and producers representing every­ Two-year-old firm, Liberman audio and video work, is doing big thing from sitcoms to docus to Hirschfeld Casting, has cast plen­ business in music videos. news shows. ty of series: "The Days and Nights Per Joan L. Adler G '76, veepee Adler, overseer of the facility's of Molly Dodd," "The 'Slap' Max­ of operations at Post, "Fifty to operations, says the 180-person well Story" and "It's Garry Shand­ sixty percent, maybe even more, f irm " is basically the largest ling's Show." Firm now serves as of the music videos shown on TV fac ility in the country in terms of consultants to Fox Broadcasting are done here." equipment. We buy the latest and for all pilots, works on NBC's Video editing, film-to-tape trans­ we are definitely the state-of-the­ mid-season replacement " The fers, audio sweetening, 2-D and art. Whatever is new, you can Live-In" and casts for Rob 3-D video graphics are among the come to the Post Group and find it Reiner's co., Castle Rock Enter­ special effects and services the Joan L. Adler here." tainment. In his seven years with Colum­ In the best scenario, a project bia/Embassy TV, Liberman cast would have several lives- as a series "The Facts of Life," "The 'Jogger' Prod. Team Based hardcover, a paperback and then Jeffersons" and "One Day at a as a film or miniseries. Time." He's responsible for the Corwin acquired Tudor with original casts of the current sit­ partner Gerry Sindell in 1987. He coms "Married ...Wi th Children" In Martin Shapiro Stable and "227." was formerly president and CEO of Pinnacle Books and was veepee Of late, the 33-year-old exec Los Angeles- "Salute of the Shapiro grew up in the industry of both Prentice-Hall and Grosset won an Artios Award from the lugger," a feature recently lensed and formed a small booking firm & Dunlap. Casting Society of America for in Australia and skedded for sum­ called the Marwin Agency as an Corwin was exec producer of Outstanding Achievement in mer release, undergrad at SU.He and his room­ the Orion fi lm "Remo Wi lliams," Daytime Casting, for his work on is the latest mate/partner skedded acts and and is credited with discovering the CBS Schoolbreak Special, opus from bands for clubs on campus and the blockbuster best-seller " ... And " Babies Having Babies," which writer I dir­ around the city, "just for fun," sez Ladies of the Club," which Tudor is was helmed by Martin Sheen. ector David Shapiro.-M.E.M. currently developing for tele­ - M.E.M. Peoples and vision.-R.G.L. produc e r C huck Ro­ ven. Both are Corwin Scores c li ents of Martin With Crossover f4RIEfi Shapiro '57, Martin Shapiro Hollywood- Is Elvis a live? partner in Trade Mark Registered That simmering question has been Supplement to SU Magazine the L.A.-based Shapiro-Lichtman a boon for Tudor Communications By permission of Variety Inc. Talent Agency. Firm reps scribes, prez Stan Corwin '60. directors and producers. Tudor, a publishing and feature/ Whether on the Coast or back East, those in The Business stay on top Per Shapiro, who formed the TV development co., published of The Business by reading "Variety." So when we chose to highlight agency in 1969, "I package and Gail Brewer-Giorgio's " Is Elvis , Hollywood news made by Syracusans, we decided how better than place people and their work, nego­ by "Variety"? Our sincere thanks go to "Variety" and publisher tiating contracts, and advising on Alive?" last summer, just in time for the II th anniversary of the Syd Silverman for permission to fondly imitate the style and in-the­ careers." Most of his time is spent King's death. Marketed with a know-ness that are "Variety." The "Variety" logo and other on packaging, developing new tal­ supposedly "authenticated" tape graphic trademarks borrowed for this supplement are copyrighted by ent or putting together deals for of Presley speaking after his 1977 Variety Inc., New York, N.Y. features and TV. death, the book made the "New Firm 's clients include writer/ York Times" best-seller list. A REPORTERS director W.O. Richter, helmers telefilm is in the works. Renee Gearhart Levy Mary Ellen Mengucci Joseph Sargent, Lee Phillips and Tudor, which buys or options Peter Hunt. Also screenwriters/ RESEARCH/STYLE novelists William Gibson, Harlan screen rights to everything it publishes, specializes in literary George Lowery Ellison, and Jim Carabatsos. works with potential wow power. https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol5/iss3/6 2 et al.: SU Variety UiRIETY BUSINESS 3 'BATMAN' LATEST MilLER COUP Fox Veep Coler Exec Lands Warner Pix Hamm Is Univ. By RENEE LEVY That's de rigeur for Miller, who Hypes New "Hy" Hollywood-Warner Bros.' supervises a staff of 50. "We dis­ Top Dog On "Batman," preeming this summer, tribute about 20 to 25 films per Hollywood-Joel Coler '53 will add another notch to the belt year," sez Miller, "so you have to 'Vice', Others just wrapped an international of studio exec Jim Miller '63. For negotiate 25 directors, 50 or so ac­ Hollywood-William Hamm promo effort for "Fly II," sequel to Miller, Warner's senior veep of tors, lots of books. We make those '79, topper for current program­ popular insect sci-fier "The Fly." worldwide business affairs, "Bat­ out of about 250 films in develop­ ming at Universal television, is the It's one of many films that man" was 10 years in the making, ment. ... There's a lot of negotiat­ studio's point man for four series: Coler- V.P. of advertising and and that was before production ing that goes on all day long.