NEWS & NOTES : `NYPD BLUE' CREATOR REVEALS PLANS FOR SMITS' REPLACEMENT.Byline: Daily News Wire Services The news on Rick Schroder continues to leak out to be divulged gradually or clandestinely; to become public; as, the facts leaked out s>. See also: Leak . Here's some second-day information on Detective Andy Sipowicz's third partner. Don't expect to see Schroder on ABC's ``NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development Blue'' until several episodes into the fall season, executive producer Steven Bochco Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16, 1943) is an American television producer and writer. He has been involved in a number of popular hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue. said. Bochco signed the former ``Silver Spoons'' star to play a detective who will likely be paired with the show's Sipowicz (Dennis Franz Dennis Franz (born October 28, 1944) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor known for his role as Andy Sipowicz, a gritty police detective in the television series NYPD Blue. ). As such, he'll fill a vacancy created by the coming departure of Jimmy Smits, who played Detective Bobby Simone Bobby Simone was a fictional character in the television series NYPD Blue. He was played by Jimmy Smits from near the start of the second season until the beginning of the sixth. for the past four seasons. Smits will appear in about six episodes next season to wrap up his part. ``I think the plan is to let Jimmy's character leave the show. If there's any overlap, it will be small,'' Bochco said. Bochco said he and the staff have decided on how Smits will exit, but refused to give details. The show's producers looked at more than 40 actors for the role. Schroder, he said, ``was very interesting and surprising for me. ... I really was surprised with, and delighted with, how good he was. ``I had in my mind a teen-ager, and in walks a young man with tremendous emotional range,'' Bochco said. ``He's really a wonderful actor.'' The 28-year-old actor's fate was sealed after he and Franz read some scenes. ``They were all really good, but there was just something that worked with Rick and Dennis,'' Bochco said. ``We could all see it. Dennis saw it and felt it. We brought him back just to make sure, and everybody's feelings were reconfirmed 100 percent.'' Investigating the investigation: Doubts raised in the days after a controversial CNN-Time magazine report that the U.S. military used nerve gas nerve gas, any of several poison gases intended for military use, e.g., tabun, sarin, soman, and VX. Nerve gases were first developed by Germany during World War II but were not used at that time. during the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. have caused the magazine to launch an investigation into the accuracy of the report. The article, and a CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. special about it, surfaced two weeks ago. The story - reported by CNN staffers - alleged that the U.S. used the deadly gas to kill American defectors. ``We believed that the initial CNN report and article were based on substantial evidence,'' Time managing editor Walter Isaacson said in a letter to readers in this week's edition. ``But we feel that the doubts raised deserve full exploration. So we plan to keep reporting this story.'' A CNN spokesman said Time's position was ``absolutely akin'' to its own and that the network continues to investigate the controversy. |
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