Method To The Madness (Hollywood Explained) - Softcover

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Dick Atkins has been producing and writing movies and television for many years. He was producer of the independent feature film Asunder, starring Blair Underwood, Debbie Morgan and Michael Beach, and was producer and writer of the feature Forced March, which starred Chris Sarandon and Josef Sommer, and filmed in Hungary. He produced numerous movies for network and syndicated television, with stars including Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, Marsha Mason, Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Steenburgen, Ron Silver, and Kenny Rogers; a health & lifestyle cable series; and three documentaries (directing one featuring Richard Gere.) He has served as a programming and production consultant for CBS/60 Minutes, King World Productions, Hearst Entertainment, Whittle Communications, DMB&B, and Le Quartier Latin of Paris. Prior to producing, he was in charge of Daytime Programming for Benton & Bowles advertising in New York (now DMB&B), where he was responsible for overseeing three daytime “soaps” owned by Procter & Gamble (Another World and Texas on NBC & Edge of Night on ABC.) Mr. Atkins also designed computer budgeting and accounting software that have been used on more than twenty-five motion pictures and mini-series, and licensed to a dozen movie production companies and one of the industry’s largest movie payroll companies. His bio appears in Who’s Who... in America, ...in the World, ...in the East, ...in Entertainment, and ...of Emerging Leaders in America. He holds a B.A. in politics from Princeton University.