User:John florescu

John Florescu, a famous executive producer was born on April 14, 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts.

TELEVISION

Chronological order:

“WAR STORIES WITH OLIE NORTH”: King Michael of Romania (1-hour special in association with Fox News; no EP credit – June 2006)

“DECISIVE BATTLES OF ANCIENT HISTORY” (13 30-minute program for the Discovery Times and the History Channel) – 2004

“IN THEIR OWN WORDS”– 13 episodes in conjunction with the New York Times – 2003

“LESSONS FROM THE GULF WAR LEADERS” (1-hour special for the History Channel; George Bush, Dominique de Villepin, Tony Blair, Colin Powell) – 1996

“PAUL MCCARTNEY IN RED SQUARE” (1-hour special for A&E Channel) – 2003

“DECISIVE BATTLES” (1-hour special Pilot for the History Channel) – 2003

“THE STRATEGIC HUMOR INITIATIVE” (90-minute special for PBS-BBC-CBC) – 2003

“BLOODLINES: DRACULA’S FAMILY TREE” (1-hour special for the History Channel) – 2003 “PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TALKING WITH DAVID FROST” (1-hour special for PBS) – 2003

“NIXON: UNCUT AND UNCENSORED” (10 episodes for Discovery Civilization) – 2002

“MUHAMMAD ALI INTERVIEW” (30-minutes for HBO “Real Sports”) – 2002

“MUHAMMAD ALI: THEN AND NOW” (1-hour, INT’L VERSION) – 2002

“ONE-ON-ONE WITH DAVID FROST” (5 series of live 1-hour special for A&E ; Features former President George Bush, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Elton John, Lauren Bacall and Michael Douglas) - 1998 – 2002

“INSIDE THE COLD WAR” (1 hour for the History Channel ; A production of David Paradine TV, Pantheon Productions and Porchlight Entertainment)– 1998

“INTERVIEWS I’LL NEVER FORGET” (13 30-minute programs - CBS Cable) – 1998

“NICHOLAS LEESON INTERVIEW” (CBS/60 Minutes) – 1997

“..TALKING WITH DAVID FROST” (67 1-hour specials for PBS) – 1991 – 1997 Features President Bush, Andrew Lloyd Webber, General H., Norman Schwarzkopf, Prime Minister John Major, Robin Williams, ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Ben Bradlee, Ted Turner, Elton John, President & Mr. Bush, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty,Patrick Buchanan, Ross Perot, Governor & Mrs. Bill Clinton, Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, the 1992 Vice Presidential candidates (Vice President Dan Quayle and Senator Albert Gore), the 1992 Vice Presidential candidates (President George Bush, Governor Bill Clinton and Ross Perot), Isaac Stern, the Reverend Billy Graham, Clint Eastwood, Nelson Mandela, President F.W. de Klerk, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Salman Rushdie, Yasir Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Garth Brooks,Lord David Owen, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Dan Quayle, Barbara Rush, Ralph Nader, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Luciano Pavarotti, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, F. Lee Bailey, Ralph Reed, Jacques Cousteau, Radovan Karadzic, General Colin Powell, Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, Sean Penn, Shimon Peres, Peter Ustinov, Mikhail Gorbachev, William F. Buckley, Jr., Larry King, Benjamin Netanyahu, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Wynton Marsalis, Paul McCartney, Michael Flatley and Walter Cronkite.

“IN SEARCH OF FRANKESTEIN” (1-hour special for ABC) – 1996

“THE NIXON INTERVIEWS WITH DAVID FROST: 1994 EDITION” (Disney Channel: Special edition including never-before-seen footage from original 1977 recordings; episodes)

“THE ROYAL GALA” (ABC) Starring Robin Williams, Elton John,Gloria Estefan the Miami Time Machine, Phil Collins, James Taylor and Amy Grant – 1988

“THE NEXT PRESIDENT” (14-hour syndicated series; George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerry Ford, Ronald Reagan, Albert Gore, Dick Gephardt, Jesse Jackson, Paul Simon, Bill Clinton) – 1988 in association with New York Times + US News & World Report

“THE SPECTACULAR WORLD OF GUINNESS RECORDS” (Co-producer with Together Again Productions) Syndicated Series – 52 half-hour episodes – 1986-1988

“GREAT CONFRONTATIONS AT THE OXFORD UNION” – Four 1-hour special for PBS – BBC/Newsnight – 1983-1985 (Caspar Weinberger, Rev. Jerry Falwell, Steve Allen, Alan King, E.P. Thompson, P.M. David Lange)

“THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH TALKING WITH DAVID FROST” (PBS 1-hour special) – recorded at Camp David - 1996

COMMISSIONED SCRIPTS:

“BEYOND THE PERFECT TEN” (by Peter Nelson in conjunction with Disney Studios for CBS) – George H. Bush, Jack Kemp, Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan

“YOUNG NIXON” (by Robert Bolt – a 5 hour miniseries for HBO)

CORPORATE VIDEOS

“PRICE WATERHOUSE GLOBAL ROUNDTABLE/CONVERGENCE: REAL ISSUES…REAL IMPACT” (1996)

“BUILDING A COMPANY: THE STORY OF TRAVELER’S GROUP” (1994) – Sandy Weill, Charles Prince, Jamie Diamon

EDUCATIONAL HOME VIDEO

“THE MODERN PRESIDENCY” (Enterprise Media, Inc.) - year (Interviews with Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush)

“ROSS PEROT: STRAIGHT TALK” (Live Home Video) – year

“THE NIXON INTERVIEWS WITH DAVID FROST” (MCA Home Video)

“ROSS PEROT: HOW TO START A SMALL BUSINESS” (U.S. News Video – 1992)

“ROSS PEROT SPEAKS OUT” (Bantam – Audio only – 1992)

OTHER TELEVISION PROJECTS

“STAR TOURS” (AMC Pilot) – 2004

“STAR TOURS” (TNN Pilot) – 2002

“RUDOLPH HESS: THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE’ (History Channel) – 2001

“THE GREAT NOBEL DEBATE” (PBS 90-minute special on 90th anniversary of Awards) – 1991

LECTURES & APPEARANCES

Yale University - “Political Uses of Cable TV” – 1983

Institute of Politics

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University – “Politics and Television” – 1983

US Capitol – “How Democrats Can Use Cable TV to win elections” – 1982

Stanford University – “Forum on New Technologies and Politics” - 1983

Today Show, NBC – “Feature on John Florescu’s political Cable TV Company”

Editorials * February 16, 2004         “Romania’s Risky Role as US Ally “                   The Boston Globe March 29, 1999            “A Pivotal Role for Romania “                        The Boston Globe June 10, 1996             “A Laggard in the Race – Gorbachev”                  Christian Science Monitor July 30, 1995             “He Didn’t Seem Like a Psychopath”                   The Washington Post April 14, 1994            “Vladimir Zhirinovsky at Point Blank Range”          San Francisco Chronicle January 3, 1982           “Cable TV: Meet the Politician’s New Helper”         Boston Sunday Globe June 16, 1982             “Politics on the Cable/Letter to the editor “        Wall Street Journal October 10, 1981          “A Bulgarian-style ’60 Minutes’ show “               The Boston Globe January 1974              “A Night in Dracula’s Castle”                        Seventeen Magazine

Contributors Council on Foreign Relations Report on privatizations in Romania


 * This listing does not include articles while employed at The Boston Globe (1979 – 1980) and at the Associated Press (Paris bureau) - (1977 – 1979)

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