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 | | Bergquist, artistic director at the New Playwrights Foundation, contends that he submitted several screenplays and a rough draft of his novel "Beulah" -- a quirky drama set amid a traveling carnival during the Depression -- to workshops at the American Film Institute and the New Playwrights Foundation in the mid- to late 1980s. |
 | | In spring 2003, the suit noted, HBO began advertising a new television series about a traveling carnival titled "Carnivale." Bergquist began receiving calls from friends who had read "Beulah," congratulating and assuming -- incorrectly, it turned out -- that his novel was being turned into a television series. |
 | | There is also a character in the book called "The Lady," the mysterious carnival manager who lives in a trailer and permits almost no one to see her. |
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