In my very first meeting with Dawn Olmstead, we connected over this project - I learned that she herself comes from a Naval family - and to bring it to fruition under her stewardship and that of her UCP team will be a perfect fit for all. "I've been a devoted fan of Wouk’s WWII epic for decades, and its depiction of small-scale human endurance in the face of large-scale global upheaval has never been more relevant than it is today. She was also the art gallery woman in "Beverly Hills Cop", then faded away in show business."I can’t think of a more exciting project with which to launch my creative partnership with UCP than Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War," MacFarlane said. On a different note, for other reasons I recently went to IMDB to look up the actress who played Seegar in "Officer and a Gentleman." It was Lisa Eichorn (sp?) who played Pug's young, Hollywood daughter. The scenes in the least eps as she fought to stay alive and find her son were the best IMO. Too old and played the character as a flighty airhead. Definitely worth at least one watch through if you have the time and a set is available to you. I found both "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" great for their time, but like has also been stated above, I am not convinced they aged as well as some of the other works of the time. He had gotten very upset at how Hollywood had handled his "The Caine Mutiny" and he had vowed to never let such major alterations happen again. The show follows both books very carefully because Herman Wouk insisted it be that way before he released the rights to do the show.
The pain was reduced when MacGraw was replaced in "War and Remembrance". It was only the fact that my wife was sitting down to watch a full-WW2 epic drama with me for the first time (and loving it) that kept me going. The character Natalie was fine in the books, but MacGraw's screen performance made me cringe every time she opened her mouth. I agree on your views on Jan Michael Vincent, but I found Ali MacGraw (playing Natalie) was the one who nearly sunk the TV series for me. The first is more soap-opera-ish, and Jan Michael Vincent's acting is awful.
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