Arthur Axelman
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Murder in Kansas — and the Mini-Series That Les Moonves Lost
How I beat Les and brought the big hit (and now mostly forgotten) “Murder Ordained” to the small screen
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Our Very First Vietnam Movie
Hollyblog: In the mid-’70s I sold and developed a TV movie about an MIA soldier that was astonishingly prophetic and wildly successful for NBC
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The Sandra Dee Movie That Could Have Been, but Never Was
An inability to lock up rights to portray Dee’s ex-husband Bobby Darin deep-sixed the ABC project about the troubled former ingenue
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Buddy Hackett Enters My Life
Many were often terrified of Buddy, especially when he was angry, but he came bearing gifts
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Taking Lunch With Eldridge Cleaver — at Scandia
As a good liberal, I had read Cleaver’s book and never believed he would be free to meet with a William Morris agent — but now I saw “Soul on Ice” as a four-hour miniseries
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Joe Wambaugh, Patty Duke — and the End of NBC’s ‘Features’ Game
We picked Bob Fosse as our first choice to direct — it turned out not to have been the best decision
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But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct!
Actors who direct have made their mark over the years, whether as a second career option or by creating memorably good or bad films
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Arthur Axelman