Interview Esther Shapiro In the one-and-a-half-hour solo portion of her interview, Esther Shapiro describes her early influences and talks about her start in freelance writing. She discusses her work as an executive story consultant for the 1973-74 series Love Story, and she details her tenure as vice president of Novels...
Interview Richard Shapiro In the half-hour solo portion of his interview, Richard Shapiro discusses writing for late 1960s episodic television including Land of the Giants , as well as working with Natalie Wood on the 1979 television movie The Cracker Factory . He also talks about his writing partnership with his wife,...
Interview Stanley Rubin In his nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, producer Stanley Rubin (1917-2014) talks about his early years in the entertainment business working in the mailroom at Paramount Pictures and as a reader for several studios, including Universal. He speaks of his transition to screenwriting and...
Interview Robert MacNeil In his seven-hour interview, Robert MacNeil (1931-2024) speaks about his long and illustrious career in journalism, starting in London with Independent Television (ITV) and later with Reuters. He recalls being hired at the NBC bureau in London, covering the Berlin crisis (when the Berlin Wall was...
