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DIO THE DESERT SUN Pilm Springs Calif Satirday April 10 1982 MA VERICK REUNION Tube Talk Bostwick on PBS The movie about a secret elite rapid deployment military group also stars Persis Khambata and Michael Beck la also being heavily exploited through the merchandising of toys and dolls Including a doll of Bostwick with the yellow beard he wears in the movie By JERRY BUCK AFTeiev taka Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) Barry Bostwick says he was helped immensely in his portrayal id a steelworker in the PBS musical by having access to Studs taped interview with the rad steelworker was able not only to hear the words but listen to the he said would have ben easy to play my character as he said was a blue collar worker been pushed around and he was overqualified for a dead-end Job What I was able to get from the tapes was a seise of hope a sense of humor and an attitude of irony a 90-minute adaptation of the stage musical based on nonfiction book celebrating working will be telecast Tuesday as part of the American Playhouse series on public television It is a co-production of KCET in Los Angeles and WNET in New York Bostwick was given access to the tapes because he was a late addition to the cast and had only a few days to find his charactger He taped his role last summer while starring in Los Angeles stage production of Pirates of used to he said here are a group of people not used to being asked about themselves sure more than one walked away with a different feeling about Scatman Crothers plays a parking lot attendant in the musical and Barbara Barrie is a school teacher Charles Haid of Street plays a meter raider Barbara Hershey has a part as a call girl Eileen Brennan is a millworker and Rita Moreno has the role of a waitress was no problem finding the said Bostwick good characters and are fun for an actor to play so much material to lean Terkel who is host told KCET matter how bewildering the times no matter how crude or rough these ordinary people may speak they are all aware of a sense of personal worth no matter how demeaning their work may Bostwick the original Danny Mo in will soon be seen In what he calls an He said are two kinds of movies AM movies and FM movies AM movies are good for drive-ins like But is an FM movie An AM movie has broad appeal Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson make AM movies which opens in June is definitely an AM movie a $20-million production and the biggest thing ever been he said that money is up there on the screen There are no big salaries no major start We all worked for little money hoping for a sequel and then we would make some APLaewphete time the two men have worked together since the original "Maverick" series that both starred in from 1957 to 1962 James Garner (left) and Jack Kelly together during the filming of a scene Wednesday of "Bret Maverick" series It is the first Academy Awards help ABC to win ratings competition WORKING TAPES Barry Bostwick says he was helped in his portrayal of a steelworker in the upcoming PBS musical by having access to host Stud taped Interview with a real steelworker The special airs tied for 32nd CBS' and finished in a tie for 45th ABCs tied for 47th and on CBS was No 58 of was top-rated show tied for 17th place with but the network had two movies in the Top 20 18th and Horse 19th NBC had three of the five lowest-rated programs starting with No 65 of the and followed by and a movie Do It A CBS News special was No 68 and "Love at First also from CBS finished 69th Here are the 10 highest rated programs: The Academy Awards show with a rating of 336 representing 275 million homes ABC 291 or 238 million and 256 or 21 million both CBS 251 or 206 million 'Too Close for 246 or 201 million "Joanie Loves 235 or 192 million and to 227 or 186 million Happy Easter from all of us at NEW YORK (AP) ABC won the prime-time ratings competition for the second straight week thanks in large measure to the Academy Awards show and a sitcom spinoff Loves figures from the AC Nielsen Co showed But CBS winner in the weekly competition this season 17 times to eight for ABC continues to lead for the period that began Oct 5 by a full point and two CBS shows and remain the TV top-rated programs The rating for ABC in the week ending April 4 was 184 to 1 7 for CBS and 1 46 for NBC The networks say that means in an average prime-time minute during the week 184 percent of the nation's homes with television were watching ABC The Oscar competition a perennial hit with viewers ended a three-week run by as the No 1 show in prime time The rating for the ABC broadcast up against some stiff competition was 336 the highest for any winning non-sports program this season Nielsen says that mea ns in an average minute of the show 336 percent of the country's TV-equipped homes were tuned to the Oscars was runner-up with third and broadcast of the NCAA basketball championship game between North Carolina and Georgetown universities on at the same time as the Academy Awards finished 12th 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