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Most Memorable Moment: Getting maced by NYPD at antiwar protest
...life, as politicians like President Bush quickly jumped on the praise bandwagon for police and firefighters. Yet in a move not uncharacteristic of U.S. politicians in general and the Bush administration in particular, the “common” men and women of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and New York Fire Department have been honored with little more than lip service...
...NYPD has been essentially operating for the last three years without a new contract and had to organize a large protest in Times Square last summer just to get a retroactive contract for the previous two years, but which did not extend into the future. A police officer I was talking to on the New York subway this summer said he almost hopes that they don’t have a new contract by next summer so that they can have another rally during the Republican National Convention...
...Western set in 1876 with the downer title Deadwood may not sound like a promising addition to HBO's spring 2004 lineup. But it has gold diggers, prostitutes, gunslingers and criminals and is being created by David Milch of NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues. Plus, Milch deadpans, "it's in color...
...contemporary setting can help them check their disbelief at the door. Don't expect chaste, old-fashioned behavior, though; there's already buzz about the skin, violence and language. "I'm just trying to get that world right," says Milch, who helped bring nudity to prime time in NYPD Blue. "When a man was killed in Deadwood, he was fed to the pigs." Even the Sopranos haven't tried that. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen