Showing posts with label Dan Pfitzer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dan Pfitzer. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

Ken Follett's epic tale of medieval passion and greed . . . the building of a great cathedral . . . and of course lots of gratuitous slicing and dicing . . .



. . .opens on STARZ Friday 23 July at 10 pm ET/PT



I have a lot of respect for Ken Follett as a writer and as a worthy man. His novels are good; he also wrote On Wings of Eagles, the true story of how two employees of Ross Perot were rescued from Iran during the revolution of 1979. This book was made into a miniseries with Richard Crenna as Ross Perot and Burt Lancaster as Colonel 'Bull' Simons.

Dan Pfitzer (who shared a tiger cage with Nick Rowe for three years in the U Minh Forest) once told me that he advised Ken Follett's on the research phase of this book; my respect for Ken went up even more.

- Sean Linnane