March, 2011 | Warren Adler

Month: March, 2011

Film Option Renewed For “Target Churchill”

Posted on: March 28th, 2011 by Warren Adler 1 Comment

We have just renewed the film option for the unpublished book “Target Churchill” which I wrote based on James Humes’ original highly researched first draft. Humes is a world wide expert on the life, times, wit and wisdom of Winston Churchill and performs often as a brilliant Churchill impersonator. The book has been optioned by Kevin Conner a British born director who is working diligently to bring the book to life on the silver screen. It is the 12th book bought or optioned of my work for film and television. The story deals with a fictional assassination attempt on Churchill’s life during his famous Iron Curtain speech in Fulton Missouri. Plans are being made for publication of the book which I have adapted as a screenplay. Those who have read the novel and the script tell me it is an exciting and authentic depiction of the great Churchill with many historical figures of the times who come to life in the narrative.…

A Rant From the Confused

Posted on: March 26th, 2011 by Warren Adler 6 Comments

I’m confused.

I listen carefully to what our leaders feed the media. I watch them on television. I read their words on numerous Internet sites. Because I was once in the public relations business I do understand parsing, spin, slant, timing, and story placement.

In fact, I orchestrated it on more than one occasion. It was my job and I understand the mechanics of information manipulation. Indeed, the march of technology has made it even more possible to manipulate masses of people, especially the discouraged young, to rock concert frenzies and protestations. Unfortunately it is a doubled-edged sword.

From the WSJ: “The Divorce Generation”

Posted on: March 18th, 2011 by admin No Comments

Having survived their own family splits, Generation X parents are determined to keep their marriages together. It doesn’t always work.

The Battle of the Biases

Posted on: March 12th, 2011 by Warren Adler 6 Comments

The recent accusation by Bill Keller, editor of the New York Times that Fox News was biased is one of the most laughable moments in the contemporary history of media.

Every bit of information spewing from the traditional media, meaning newspapers, television, the Internet, the blogosphere and whatever is biased in some way.

As an admitted news junkie I do an elaborate routine of info touring every day. I subscribe to the printed New York Times and read it diligently every morning as I have done as long as I can remember. I then do an electronic sweep that takes in everything that I can possible absorb in less than an hour. While I shave I often listen to NPR, which falsely champions its neutrality and I see no need to subsidize their biases with my taxes.

The Real Warren Adler

Posted on: March 1st, 2011 by Warren Adler 1 Comment

For nearly sixty years I used to think that I was the only Warren Adler in the world. In school, from elementary to college, in the United States Army where I served and in my career as a writer. Up to then I had never met or even heard about another Warren Adler.

It made me believe that my parents had given me a name so unique that it couldn’t be replicated. I was told I was named after a great grandfather whose name was “Wolf” and my Hebrew name is Zev, which means Wolf.

I have a feeling, although never admitted by my parents, that the name Warren was suggested by the President Warren Harding, who died in office four years before my parents were married.