Horowitz, Larry

WHITE HOUSE SIT ROOM FRI 08 MAR 96 09:41 PG.03 Haven Honourtz, lumy - rans, PHOTOCOPY PRESERVATION 8 March 1996 MEMORANDUM TO EVELYN LIEBERMAN From: Harold Ickes Re: CBS TV film with cameo appearance by the President, produced by Larry Horowitz on 7 March I spoke with Larry Horowitz, who is on location in Vancouver, producing a two hour film for CBS, which features the story of the little girl who visited the President in the Oval Office about a year and a half ago, two weeks before she died of leukemia. Her father publicly told the President how much it meant to him that he was able to spend time with his dying daughter because of the Family Leave and Medical Act which the President pushed through the Congress and signed into law. be Both Larry Horowitz and Diane Quinn (Jack Quinn's wife), with whom I spoke on 7 March, said that they understood that the President had agreed to appear in a "cameo" role in the closing scene of this film in which he would appear in the Oval office talking with the little girl (presumably an actress), who subsequently died. The producer would need approximately an hour and a half of the President's actual time for the filming in the Oval office, although it will take approximately six hours for the camera and light crews to set up before the actual filming. According to Diane, there is approximately one page of script for the President. two They want to do the filming in March or during April at the very latest so that the screening can be in June. Because of the equal time provision, the film will not be shown on television until after 5 November, but Larry and Diane propose to have a screening in Washington, D.C. for a favorite charity of the President for example, Make A Wish Foundation, which brought the little girl who is the protagonist of the film to the President's attention in the first place) According to Larry, the screening would be open to the press, and he is confidant that it would be shown on the news the evening of the day that the screening took place and, according to him, would, therefore, be seen be many more people then the actual film will be seen by. According to Diane, ABC was going to do this film, but, at either