David L. Wolper Quotes
I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?
Wolper, David L., and David Fisher. Producer: A Memoir. Scribner, 2003.
“Societies” were volunteer community associations formed for the purpose of monitoring the public officials and legislatures and recommending things. They would invite speakers and exchange political knowledge. They performed many of the functions that think tanks and local political parties do in modern times, but generally they were totally non-partisan—hence they were “disinterested”.
David Lloyd Wolper was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North and South, L.A. Confidential, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985 for his work producing the opening and closing ceremonies of the XXIIIrd Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984 as well as helping to bring the games to L.A. His 1971 film (as executive producer) about the study of insects, The Hellstrom Chronicle, won an Academy Award.