People

By Sara C. Medina

I'll Take Manhattan is the latest of Judith Krantz's steamy best-selling novels to be made into a TV mini-series. This one, scheduled for CBS next season, stars Valerie Bertinelli as Maxi Amberville, heiress to a troubled publishing empire. When things look bad, sexy Maxi turns for aid to a worldly real estate developer named Donald Trump, played by Donald Trump. The megamogul had a small, key speaking part in a scene that was filmed last week in -- where else? -- his own Trump Tower. Sighed Bertinelli: "He's so handsome." Trump, an old friend of Krantz's, was her choice for the part, and she too was pleased: "He got the role letter perfect." Trump's accordion-pleated glass building on Fifth Avenue, the locale of the fictional Maxi's apartment, also had excellent lines.