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...sort of a mini-hydrogen bomb," says Weapons Analyst Samuel T. Cohen of the so-called neutron bomb. Cohen should know. In the late 1950s, as a Rand Corp. consultant to the Air Force, he was the first to draw the military's attention to the possibility of making a new type of nuclear weapon. It would do the bulk of its damage not by heat or concussive force, but by a flood of high-energy subatomic particles called neutrons. Cohen, who has no academic credentials beyond a bachelor's degree from U.C.L.A., wanted to create a relatively...
...first it seems like an obscene idea: a network mini-series about the Nazis' extermination of 6 million Jews. American television has a tendency to trivialize almost everything it touches, and, of all important subjects, the Holocaust should be immune to such treatment. But about an hour into Part 1 of Holocaust's four installments, it is clear that this NBC Big Event is far from the same network's Loose Change or King-or just about any other TV movie. Not only is Holocaust faithful to the facts of a horrific historical episode, this show also...
There were formidable practical problems in making Holocaust. First planned for six hours, the mini-series grew and grew. By the end, 150 actors and 1,000 extras had been employed; 100 miles of film had been shot. Director Marvin Chomsky, who also did half of Roots, even had to miss his father's funeral in the U.S. to keep up with his shooting schedule in Vienna. He felt his father, who had been a Zionist in the 1920s, would have wanted it that...
...decision not to cast the mini-series with big-name actors came early on. "People want to see this show or they don't," explains Klein. "It would have been ludicrous to star-stud it." Instead of celebrities, the audience will see prominent actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company (Ian Holm), the New York Shakespeare Festival (Meryl Streep) and Broadway (Rosemary Harris, George Rose). The Nazis are mainly played by British. Says Berger: "We did not want any comedic overtones of Hollywood." Most of the cast members accepted their roles as soon as they saw the script...
...What is a "mini...