I Said Yes To Everything: A Memoir - Plot & Excerpts
Why couldn’t The Willmar 8, the documentary, be turned into a movie for television? I took the doc and the concept to Joan Barnett and Karen Danaher-Dorr at NBC. They got behind it and they got behind me as the director. It would be my first solo directing job for a wide audience. I loved the idea of casting actors I knew in the parts of the real women I’d met in Minnesota. I loved the idea of bringing the issue to a huge public. Not lecturing about women’s issues, but showing the reality of women’s place in the banking industry. In those days, 1984, before cable, the three networks supplied everything to the country, so twenty million viewers for an evening’s entertainment was average. (Three years later, when we made Nobody’s Child with Marlo Thomas, we had forty million viewers.) We were still living in the Green House when I pitched The Willmar 8 as a TV movie. Joan and Karen gave us the money to go ahead with a script. By the time Joyce Eliason, who’d written the script for Tell Me a Riddle, began working on the script, we had moved to New York.
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