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Show ' "As Seen in Better Homes & Gardens and House Beautiful" Enjoy your patio more with a Howmet Woodgrain Skylight patio cover. Skylights let in soft filtered light Patio cover finished to look like rich natural wood but without the upkeep of wood O No yearly staining or painting Rich Walnut Woodgrain or Golden Oak Woodgrain complement any architectural style May be enclosed with screens or glass AFTER HOURS FREE ESTIMATES OR Glenn Jordan, seen here at work in Los Angeles, is the 1977 winner for drama in the Directors Guild of America annual awards. His winning entry, Rights of Friendship, was the season opener last September on ABCs weekly series Family. 272-- 1 555 N INQUIRIES Brfrr Ceiin Jordan award winner " 17th South Main & 486-931- 1 ZIP 841 15 by Mike Good kind Associated Press Writer Glenn Jordan is the LOS ANGELES unsung hero, the boss, the creative spark, the watchdog, depending on how you look at what he does. My friends ask me all the time, what does a director do? and I cant answer them. WHEN YOU talk about things, all you can do is talk about small details, and I dont know how interesting they are, really, says Jordan. Jordans fellow television directors know what he does, and they like it. In March, he received a gold plaque, top prize for drama in the Directors Guild of America annual awards. The winning entry, Rights of Friendship, last September on was the season-opene- r ABCs weekly series, Family. The guild, with 4,600 members, has rewarded TV directors since 1953. YEARS winners were Alan Aldas on Sigmund episode of CBS, comedy; Tony Charmoli for a Shirley Maclaine special on CBS, best short musical variety; Vernon Diamond for a CBS News Bicentennial special; in specials over one hour, Daniel Petrie, director of ABCs Eleanor and Franklin. And Jordan. Any kind of peer group award is important, because the people who decide on the awards are in a position to evaluate the work a little Jordan. more accurately, says the THIS 'Dear RIGHTS OF FRIENDSHIP is the seventh episode of Family for Jordan, who switched and regional theater to from television about 15 years ago. Family, the everyday crisis of a Southern California couple and their three children, aged 14 to early 20s, is his first venture in a weekly series. Most of his work has been TV movies. of Friendship was a happy meld of Rights drama and successful business. It was a top-2- 0 show in the ratings that week and was watched by more viewers than Switch or "Police Woman, shown at the same time. "Casting is terribly important in what a director does, first of all, says Jordan as he begins to describe his craft. award-winnin- g In his award winner, he was especially pleased with the performances, especially Brian Byers. Byers played Zeke, a childhood friend of the familys son, Willie. HE HAD DONE very little, Jordan says. He came in and read, and I liked him and I wanted him. And I fought for him. "The producers wanted me to choose a known actor. I shouldnt say that, but I insisted on him. I felt he was just what I wanted. In the episode, Zeke returns from college to tell Willie that he is a homosexual. But thats kind of a side issue, says Jordan. "The issue is friendship and the fact that the brothers best friend from the time they were children never told him that. He feels it is a betrayal of friendship. JORDAN ADMITS THAT the homosexual theme may have gotten it more attention on the air. But I dont think that has much to do with the guilds evaluation. Theyre looking at it from another point of view. A guild spokesman says that each member submits what he considers his best work of the year. The final choice is made by a panel of five directors in New York and five in Los Angeles. Jordan won because they thought it was the best show in its category, a guild spokesman said tersely. Jordan leans back in his chair, stares toward the ceiling as he ponders, and then recalls the specifics of the show. "THERES A SCENE between the boy and Sada Thompson, who plays the mother in the kitchen that I was very fond of. When she says, remember how you argued how the world was flat. And he says it is flat. And I used that line to say the world is flat in the sense that its flat, stale and unprofitable. I thought that could be a very touching scene, and it was. Jordan says that by casting Biff McGuire, a leading movie man from the 1940s, as the I father, he went against using cliches. wanted him to respond more with despair to his sons disposition, which makes the incident more tragic for everybody. 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