1987. The soon-to-be-published Joseph Wambaugh true crime bestseller "Echoes in the Darkness" was "too big" to be a theatrical feature, signaling the chase to get it for TV as a miniseries. Wambaugh came to the William Morris Agency to check me out. The former Lapd detective sergeant, unimpressed with the trappings of Hollywood, appeared to like me enough to sign papers and have me get him something he didn't find himself. Which is not what other agents had done. I immediately got him an assignment to adapt someone else's book at ABC. I also brought him...
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