Adams: "If anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving ..."
A: I have not seen the final cut because there is still editing being done for the last hours. But I have seen the evolution of the project from the very beginning, all the way along over the last three, nearly four years. I've seen every version of the script for each episode and I have seen the preliminary rough cut, the secondary rough cut and so forth for all of the episodes. I can tell you that I am more than pleased with the quality, the look, the integrity of it all. It is superb.
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The link to the rest of the article and interview is here and is well worth reading.
McCullough, who grew up in Pittsburgh and whose family owns McCullough Electric Supply, apparently has substantial day-to-day input in the scripting and production.
Bill Steigerwald is a Pittsburgh native and columnist with LA and Hollywood experience.
I see the posters here in Hollywood all the time (freakin posters of everyone anyways)...
I read an interview on Paul Giamatti on Penthouse...very good interview. Sounds like he doesn’t have an air of arrogance to him like cLOONEY does.
Adams: "If anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving ..."
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I recall PBS’ “The Adams Chronicles” (1976) as being pretty good. It’s being reissued on DVD in May.
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Adams-Chronicles-DVD-Announcement/9001
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Trivia question for historical-minded freepers: Why would HBO films be interested in doing a piece on a dead white European male like John Adams?
John Adams
by David McCullough
cool - been waiting for HBO to come out with something else worth watching
“1776” would have been a better story. Nevertheless, now I will have to add HBO to my f’n cable bill. Lived without it for my 30 years as a cable consumer, but I don’t want to miss this.
Just saw the first two cahpters and I thought it was superb. All I can say is WOW!
If you were to examine him in English and French poetry, I know not where you would find anybody his superior... He has translated Virgil's Aeneid... the whole of Sallust and Tacitus' Agricola... a great part of Horace, some of Ovid, and some of Caesar's Commentaries... besides Tully's [Cicero's] Orations...Letter from John Adams to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, former tutor to John Quincy Adams, pp. 324-325In Greek his progress has not been equal; yet has he studied morsels of Aristotle's Politics, in Plutarch's Lives, and Lucian's Dialogues, The Choice of Hercules in Xenophon, and lately he has gone through several books in Homer's Iliad.
In mathematics I hope he will pass muster. In the course of the last year... I have spent my evenings with him. We went with some accuracy through the geometry of the Preceptor, the eight books of Simpson's Euclid in Latin,.. We went through plane geometry... algebra, and the decimal fractions, arithmetical and geometrical proportions... I then attempted a sublime flight and endeavored to give him some idea of the differential method of calculations...[and] Sir Isaac Newton; but alas, it is thirty years since I thought of mathematics.
-PJ
