Word: nypd
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...played by Kevin Dillon, the brother of Matt Dillon and evidently the best sport in Hollywood.) Dillon gives depth and poignancy to a one-joke character. Admittedly, it's often a great joke, as when Drama brags about having been on "Blue"--it turns out he means not NYPD but Pacific Blue, the mid-'90s show about buff bicycle cops. Grenier, likewise, gives Vince a sweet, dim Vinnie Barbarino appeal. Vince doesn't read scripts--even for the movie he just made--but he seems savvy enough to know the utility of his dumbness...
...Dramas always tend to preview better than sitcoms, so it's hard to say what might be good or bad here - although "Housewives," "Life As We Know It" and "Lost" all inspired curiosity. In other news, "NYPD Blue" ends after next season, having apparently run out of bad things to make happen to Sipowicz. Oprah Winfrey is producing an ABC movie of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," starring Halle Berry. Jessica Simpson, whose sitcom pilot got rejected by ABC, has instead signed a deal to do variety specials for two years, for at least one month...
...isn’t the subject matter of Blue Blood, first novel of Edward Conlon ’87, that has won the cop drama extensive media coverage and a spot atop bestseller lists. It’s the author himself, a literally blue-collared detective for the NYPD who happens to have a Harvard diploma. FM tracked Conlon down for a phone interview while he was on tour in California, and the author was happy to talk about hiding his Harvard degree from his fellow cops, his first break into security work as a receptionist for HUPD...
...human spirit in fitting so many obscenities in the most ordinary declarative sentence." This, he says, was the point: Deadwood, S.D., was outside the bounds of the U.S., the law and propriety--just as Milch is now beyond the long reach of the ABC censors who dogged him on NYPD Blue, the show he created with Steven Bochco. Take a group of criminals and scofflaws, mostly men, risking ruin or murder to seek their fortunes--who then blow said fortunes on hookers, craps, dope and booze--and in any century, their epithets will be frequent and stronger than "dagnabbit...
...experience to good use, especially in Deadwood's dialogue, which is vulgar but well crafted, even oddly formal. ("If you're going to murder me, I'd appreciate a quick dying. And not getting et by the pigs. In case there is resurrection of the flesh.") As with NYPD Blue's mannered police slanguage--or, for that matter, iambic pentameter--no human speaks this way. But the writing does what good dialogue should, which is firmly establish its own world and its own logic...