Dete Meserve is a principal of the production company that produced the movie that starred Helen Hunt alongside the actor and filmmaker of what nationality?
Dete Meserve Dete Meserve is an award-winning and bestselling author as well as film and television executive and a principal of Wind Dancer Films. Wind Dancer Films is best known as the creators and producers of Home Improvement starring Tim Allen, What Women Want starring Helen Hunt and Mel Gibson, Where The Heart Is starring Natalie Portman. Meserve's credits include producing Bernie starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, executive producer of Walker Payne starring Sam Shepard and Jason Patric, executive producer of the TV series Wildest Africa for Discovery International, executive producer of As Cool As I Am, starring Claire Danes and James Marsden. In 2014, she was an executive producer of the George Lopez sitcom, "Saint George," and producer of the thriller, The Keeping Room starring Sam Worthington, Hailee Steinfeld and Brit Marling. She is currently an Executive Producer of the hit kids television series Ready Jet Go on PBSKids.
Black Like Me (film) Black Like Me (1964) is an American drama film based on the book "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin. The journalist disguised himself to pass as an African-American man for six weeks in 1959 in the Deep South, to report on life in the segregated society from the other side of the color line. The screen play was co-written (with Gerda Lerner) and the film was directed by Carl Lerner. The film stars James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, and Roscoe Lee Browne.