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79 Park Avenue new mini-series are certain things you do for dramatic said screen-writer Richard describing how he adapted Harold best-seller Park into the six-hour NBC-TV Novel for Television to be telecast Oct. 16, 17, 18 (8-10 p.m.). book has a lot of energy, good strong characters, and a compelling lead said DeRoy, what I hope will be a compelling ture. But the novel was not structured as a movie so we did a lot (rf changing. We characters and created We made minor characters into major DeRoy was hired by executive producer George Eckstein to came up with the treatment for the teleplay.

DeRoy had worked with author Robbins on the 1968-69 television series based on a Robbins idea. old series was never a book but Robbins worked along with story said DeRoy. Park is just the opposite situation. Robbins sold the rights and took oif for Europe. think he knows working on it, but I do know he understands the basic demands of television as to novels.

I think like the finished DeRoy adapted the book into a 35-page treatment and wrote the teleplay the first part, two hours long. Jack Guss wrote the second part and Lionel E. Siegel wrote the third. major events were laid out in the treatment, but the two writers were free to write as they chose within the coi- fines (rf the said DeRoy. was always a definite direction in which the story was going all the The lead character in the novel and the television production is Marja Fludjicki who becomes Marianne Morgan, a prostitute and later a madame.

She will be portrayed by Lesley Ann Warren. is the protagonist. a tough girl, but she never hurts anybody. That remains true to the said DeRoy. in the book, she is (m trial for being a madame, a pretty sensational thing in the 50s when the book was hot, but not now.

Also, in the book she got pregnant nearly every time she went to bed and people accept that One of major changes is the envelopment at one antagonist the book. This turned out to be Boi Savitch (Michael Constantine), father (rf nunantic interest, Ross (Marc Singer). expanded him to be the front man the rackets with a terribly negative attitude toward according to DeRoy. book. not sure she ever met him.

But he like his relationship with her. He even sent Ross to Elurope to escape To add drama, DeR()y also kept mother (Barbara Barrie) alive longer and made her brother (Matthew Laborteaux) a teen-ager instead of a baby. for Marja-Marianne continued the writer, the b(M)k she gets into prostitu-' tion much earlier and to 79 Park Avenue much later. We reversed both situations. Also in the book, she marries a ealthy man who we eliminated the teleplay.

Hie mar- was hirief; her caught up with The character (rf Frannie (Jane Marla Robbins), best friend, was developed into a more important character than in the book. exhibits another way of life available to w(Mnen at that time and place. are sevmil said DeRoy, the basic flavor and remain the same. why the drama is said to be (xi the novel and not a definite NO LOVE Lesley Am Warrea plays the lead la the NBC Navel tm TdevMm haeed Harold aovel, aad Michael CoasUattaie plays her aamiy and fathar-faMaw. hi Parh Oct.

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