By doing both, the one kept me afloat while I was trying to hit the home run. This is a very difficult movie. You're trying to please yourself, the network, and you're second-guessing what a world audience will expect and want. Putting all those elements together to re-create two people as well as pleasing everybody at the same time is a big feat. He Loved which I did for CBS in 1988.
Most television movies cost just under three million.
The day before you were scheduled to wrap, TV Guide ran a story in which Mary Bono, Sonny's widow, revealed that his fatal skiing accident was related to his prescription drug abuse, perhaps up to 20 Vicodin and Valium a day. Our movie starts when Sonny and Cher meet and ends with their reunion on the David Letterman show in 1987. As they sing the last song, we do a montage of his marriage to Mary Bono, running for office and his death. At the moment, it won't affect how we end the movie. But the story is continuing to break and I think we probably haven't heard the end of it.