TELEVISION - Dec. 4, 1992

‘Passage’ to TV: Gail Sheehy’s best-selling book “The Silent Passage,” a nonfiction work about menopause, is headed for NBC as a two-hour “docu-movie.” Emmy-winning producer Preston Fischer has acquired the rights to the book and award-winning filmmaker Joan Tewkesbury (“Nashville”) will write and direct the project. Actors will play seven fictional characters, with real people playing themselves in town meetings to be staged in various cities, including Los Angeles. Sheehy will moderate the gatherings.