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And then they turned all Goldeneye on us with the lady.
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Adam Schiff was not the original DA. The DA in the pilot was a rather "conservative Republican" George Will-looking fellow. Steven Hill as Adam Schiff showed up in the 1st production episode.
Interesting note: When I was working for the Lew Wallace campaign back in CT, House Democrats sent us a guy to help run our campaign as they did with all the targeted races. The guy they sent us was some hotshot who'd been in California for the past 10 years doing the big races, & he had a bunch of campaign lit with him from them.
As I looked through the piece of lit, I came across one that had a picture of a guy in his early-to-mid 40s with his family that said "ADAM SCHIFF FOR SHERIFF." I held it up & said, "You gotta be kidding me, right?" Turns out Adam Schiff is a real guy & a close personal friend of Dick Wolf, the creator of L&O. When the DA post was being rewritten, he used his friend's name & the rest is history.
As for "sidechicks," NO ONE will EVER compare to hot-as-fuck Jill Hennessey. Never mind that the character she's playing on "Crossing Jordan" now is for all intents & purposes her. Never mind that she's fluent in Italian (& married to one)...but she's got an identical twin sister, Jacqueline. Check out the Jeremy Irons movie "Dead Ringers" for Jill & Jacque as identical twin hookers. She also came in handy for that first L&O/Homicide crossover. Jill was needed in NYC for a scene at the same time they were doing one in Baltimore. Since the NYC shot had lines, she did that one & Jacque sat in for her in the background in Baltimore.
Finally, L&O: CI is pretty fucking cool. Vincent D'Onofrio=teh r0xx0rz!
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i think it's cool has NYC has such a large supply of hot as all get out assistant DAs. makes me want to commit a crime there.
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Well, the CSI shows fuck a lot of stuff up, on top of making the crime scene investigators seem like rock stars.
They've often made some almost superhuman leaps of logic on CSI. Nobody is that good! (At least not within the typical one week investigation period that the show covers.)
Also, most real CSI people are fat. Food is their only vice, you know?
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EdipisReks
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i'm sorry, but William Petersen is that good.
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Bill is a special case.
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ok, then. CSI: Miami is significantly less wowsers, but hopefully the fact that Kim Decan'tfuckingact is leaving the show will let it get better.
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I watched CSI: Miami once or twice, and then dropped it.
They've screwed up by having a spin-off so quickly. Over-saturation, man.
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yeah, i defintely agree. CSI would have been ready for a spinoff in 3 or 4 years, but not now. though, of course, CSI is the only CBS show with good ratings (well, fucking fantastically great ratings, in this case) so they had to do something.
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quote:Originally posted by EdipisReks: i think it's cool has NYC has such a large supply of hot as all get out assistant DAs. makes me want to commit a crime there.
Defense Attourney of the week: And we wouldn't even be speaking to the DA's office if it wasn't for the appearance of the lovely Ms. (Assistant DA of the year).
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Aban: When CBS originally started out with their pilot "Everybody's Favourite Bagman", the DA was Alfred Wentworth. When NBC picked up L&O, that's when Schiff comes in.
I don't know why Dianne Wiest left the show, but in the series, it was mentioned that D.A. Lewin was only considered interim after the retirement of Adam Schiff. As for Lewin herself, it was mentioned that she ran for term as D.A. and was defeated by Arthur Branch, a right-winger who was elected as a response to 9/11. I kinda like the guy though. Lotta wit like Schiff. Not like what Lewin had.
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