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...secret to Halmi's success," notes producer Judd Parkin, former head of movies and mini-series at ABC, "is that he is so doggedly contrarian. So much of TV is the same, but when Halmi comes into the room, you know you are not going to get pitched another date-rape movie." Moreover, Parkin says, "he's a great raconteur, very passionate. He gets right to the heart of the matter. He's very...
Halmi may not relish talking about show business, but he can't escape the fact that he is show business. His life is even something of a mini-series. Born in Budapest and married five times, he fought in the Hungarian resistance before moving in the 1950s to the U.S., where he worked as a LIFE magazine photographer and dabbled in race-car driving before turning to TV as a producer of wildlife documentaries...
...teleplay. It is a testimony to the producer's wily charm that Assante harbors no ill will. "The experience," he reasons, "was very good for me. I thank him for what he did." Whether America thanks Halmi for The Odyssey, or decides that it prefers its literary-inspired mini-series confined to the novels of Jackie Collins, remains to be seen...
Just in case we haven't sussed out the metaphor from dozens of other movies and books devoted to romanticizing Cosa Nostra, Mario Puzo's The Last Don, a six-hour mini-series (beginning May 11, 9:00 p.m. E.T., CBS) based on the author's best-selling 1996 novel, is here to remind us that the Mob functions no more or less rapaciously than any corporation or government, and at least its employees know a good prosciutto when they see one. Hollywood studios are run by vicious souls, the movie tells us; politicians are a meretricious and evil-thinking...
When it isn't taking its subject too seriously, The Last Don is more amusing than the rest of this month's mini-series. Where else can we find Daryl Hannah playing an actress named Athena Aquitane who stars in a $50 million feminist action flick directed by k.d. lang...