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...with the headline WHERE IS CHANDRA LEVY?" says Warner Bros. Television president Peter Roth about the missing-persons show. "The one-line pitch was 'Whoever finds her.' I thought, Absolutely, yes, yes, yes." CSI, a forensics-lab cop show, was inspired by Barry Scheck's testimony in the O.J. Simpson case. Like Law & Order, which steals from the New York Times, Bruckheimer also steals from the news, only his source material is the tabloid New York Post...
...edit. He gives his notes only by telephone or in person, never in writing, as most producers do. ("Personal contact is good. We try to boost up the people who work here.") And he doesn't yell. That's because screaming was the bailiwick of his old partner Don Simpson, who played the completely insane cop to Bruckheimer's laid-back cop until he died of a cocaine overdose in 1996. Bruckheimer has never made the Jungian leap to taking over Simpson's role, remaining oddly calm for an action-movie producer. "There are very few people in this business...
...want this to be the symbol of total modernity,” Simpson says. “We want it to be totally...
...atrium, the exposed area in the center, will form what Simpson calls “the glue that holds the whole thing together...
...course we’re keeping the water tower,” Simpson said. “I don’t think it was even a question...