BEST WISHES TO OUR
CUSTOMERS & FRIENDS FOR A
HEALTHY & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Mixed Media
A CNN series examines the Cold War.
RaLts
Rom
SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to The Jewish News
Family Resturant
Farmington Hills
Wishes It's Customers & Friends A
Very Healthy And Happy New Year
Agek aomie
28990 Orchard Lake Rd.
855-8882
Wishes Its Friends &
Customers A Healthy and
Happy New Year
RISTORANTE
6263 Orchard Lake Rd.,
West Bloomfield
248-855-3993
Wishing You A Happy & Healthy New Year
Sample Specialty teas f
tisanes at our tea bar
0 riginal Vintage
HU 'S
WINE BAR
Posters 1890's - present
Mrt Gifts
fflome Accessories
[Custom Framing
Mrt Exhibits
248.356.5454
www.everythingart.com
*e-mail ChezPG@aol.com
u
29173 Northwestern, Southfield
Detroit Jewish News
ra R S
I
srael's relationship with Egypt
enters into a segment of the
most expansive documentary
series ever produced in the 18-
year history of CNN — "Cold War."
During 24 one-hour episodes, the
series explores the ideological struggle
and arms race between the United
States and the Soviet Union, as well as
their allies, as they confronted the
challenges of nuclear power from
1945 to 1991.
Anti-communist hysteria in the early
'50s, Berlin Wall captivity in the late
'50s and the Sino-Soviet split of the '60s
are among the dramatic times captured.
While filming in 31 countries, the
production team conducted interviews
with more than 500 people, from
heads of states to workaday citizens,
close to the events.
The first episode, "Comrades," airs
Sept. 27, chronicling how Nazi aggres-
sion made unlikely allies of the United
States and the Soviet Union with the
A-bomb giving the U.S. the upper
hand. Episode 17, "Good Guys, Bad
Guys," will be shown Feb. 14,
recounting the drama of the Six-Day
War of 1967, when Israel and Egypt
were in battle.
Kenneth Branagh, British actor and
director, narrates Cold War, which is
produced by Sir Jeremy Isaacs, award-
winning filmmaker of "The World at
War," and Pat Mitchell, president of
Time Inc.-CNN Productions.
"The first critical decision was to
present 'Cold War' as a story," says
Isaacs, a British television executive
knighted by Queen Elizabeth for ser-
vices to broadcasting and the arts.
"Television history is popular histo-
ry, and that means narrative history —
short on analysis, long on anecdote
and big on the human incidents that
bring large political matters clearly
home to us."
The incidents that combined to
shape the modern age are addressed
through separate programs, which
include "Iron Curtain," "Sputnik,"
"Vietnam," "Spies" and "Star Wars,"
all building on archival footage as well
as recent interviews.
Former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, for instance, appears in
Episode 16: "Detente," and Sergei
Khrushchev, son of the late Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev, answers
questions in Episode 7, "After Stalin."
Besides the world leaders, intervie-
wees include GIs who fought in Korea
and Vietnam, Chinese and
Vietnamese soldiers, astronauts, spies,
Photo by AndreW Mc Pherso n
4052 HAGGERTY • WALLED LAKE • (248) 360-0190
"Cold War" Producer Sir Jeremy Isaacs
and narrator Kenneth Branagh
police officers, prisoners, politicians,
protestors and people who lived in the
world centers at the brink of nuclear
war.
Sir Frank Roberts, the British diplo-
mat who met with Stalin in Moscow
during 1941, was the first interviewed.
George Kennan, who served in the
U.S. embassy in Moscow during the
'30s and alerted Washington to the
Soviet threat, gave his first television
interview in many years.
"We arranged our subject matter so
that each film, which is intended to
stand on its own, follows the previous
week's episode and leads on to the
next," Isaacs explains.
"At every stage, we have had the
benefit of guidance from professional
historians — American, Russian,
British and others. We checked every
testimony and every fact against a
valid source and an objective record."
The idea of CNN chief Ted Turner,
the series was buttressed with informa-
tion newly available through the U.S.
Freedom of Information Act and the
opening of Soviet archives.
"We tell a straightforward and
MIXED MEDIA on page R14