the winds of war and war and remembrance

How can you worry about seeing frontal nudity when you’re talking about massacring 11 million people?”Īlfred Schneider, ABC’s vice president of standards and practices, said the network was more than willing to suspend its usual restrictions in the name of reality.

“I told them to forget the rest of it-I didn’t know how I was going to do the Battle of Midway, I didn’t know how I was going to do submarine warfare and all of that stuff-but on the Holocaust,” Curtis recalled, “I cannot be censored. The second half will air next spring.ĭespite Curtis’ initial reluctance to get involved with the sequel following three years of making the 18-hour “Winds of War,” ABC was able to hook him by promising him a budget far above the ordinary for a TV miniseries and agreeing to give him free reign to depict the graphic horror of the Holocaust-including extreme violence and nudity. The first 18 hours of the World War II drama starts Sunday and will continue through Nov. If Curtis lost his hearing on “Winds of War,” he came close to losing his mind as executive producer of the sequel-”War and Remembrance,” a 32-hour, $104-million miniseries that is the biggest, longest, most expensive TV project in history. “I always had a hearing problem, and some guy with a machine gun opened up very close to me and that was that,” Curtis growled. The hearing aid represents a Purple Heart of sorts for Curtis: His hearing loss is a battle scar from 3-year service as producer, director and co-writer of the 1983 ABC miniseries “The Winds of War,” based on the Herman Wouk novel.

“When I turned it up, I think I got LAX (Los Angeles International Airport),” he apologized, hurriedly cranking it down. Germain in Hollywood, started suddenly as he fiddled with the control on his hearing aid.

The winds of war and war and remembrance