NEWS & NOTES : PASDAR SWITCHES FROM PSYCHO TO UPRIGHT FEDERAL PROSECUTOR.After sleeping naked in a cardboard box cardboard box n → caja de cartón cardboard box n → (boîte f en) carton m cardboard box card n → last season, Adrian Pasdar has rejoined the human race as a crusading federal prosecutor. Pasdar, who grabbed critical kudos for his portrayal of psycho businessman Adrian Profit on Fox's short-lived ``Profit,'' is a member of the Manhattan Federal Prosecutor's Office in ``Feds,'' a new CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. crime drama from ``Law & Order's'' Dick Wolf Richard Anthony Wolf (usually billed as simply Dick Wolf), (born December 20, 1946, New York City), is one of American television's most respected drama series creators and is an Emmy Award-winning producer, specializing in crime dramas. . Heavyweight co-stars Regina Taylor Regina Taylor (born August 22, 1960) is a Golden Globe Award winning American actress and playwright. Biography Taylor was born in Dallas, Texas, but starting at age 12 she went to a newly-integrated school in Muskogee, Oklahoma where she was subjected to an incident of (``I'll Fly Away''), Blair Brown See also Blair-Brown deal, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for details on the Blair-Brown relationship in British politics Blair Brown (born Bonnie Blair Brown on April 23, 1947, in Washington, District of Columbia) is an American actress. (``Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'') and John Slattery (``Homefront'') have all carried the lead on their respective series. Says Wolf: ``I may be delusional, but I haven't been this excited about a show since `Law & Order.' '' No launch date or time slot yet for ``Feds,'' produced out of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Seven episodes, including the pilot, are ordered. Generally, bad guys ``are more fun to play,'' says Pasdar, 31, who portrays a man with a dark secret Sunday on the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. telemovie ``Touched by Evil.'' ``You're not responsible for being likable, which is always more interesting. It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.'' In ``Feds,'' Pasdar's Dudley Do-Right is C. Oliver Resor, an Ivy Leaguer who rejects an offer to join his father's rich defense practice to go after such corporate behemoths as the tobacco industry. ``He works on the side of justice,'' says Pasdar, a Pittsfield, Mass., native whose family moved to Philadelphia when he was 2. ``He has more respect for the letter of the law than for the glamour, glory and money that are sometimes associated with being a defense attorney.'' Short stuff: Crooner k.d. lang will make her TV acting debut in Mario Puzo's ``The Last Don,'' a six-hour CBS miniseries set for May. Lang will play the director of a movie in which Athena (Daryl Hannah), girlfriend of wiseguy Cross (Jason Gedrick), stars ... ``Peace on Earth: Kids Talk About the Middle East,'' a Nick News Special Edition, debuts at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Producer Linda Ellerbee, who has done more than a dozen Nick specials, says this one was almost as difficult as the AIDS show. ``You're dealing with issues of race, religion and land ownership. It is so emotional. You get as many opinions as there are people.'' |
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