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[*]<font color=yellow>Sofia Milos</font> (Yelina Salas) has updated her website with new information regarding her possible return to CSI: Miami. According to the actress, Yelina Salas isn't gone for good, and may make an appearance towards the end of the season. The webmaster of the website announced, "Though not all the facts about her role on CSI have been fully decided yet for the future, <font color=yellow>Ann Donahue</font> the Exec. Producer and writers of CSI have her character staying in Brazil for now until further decisions are made for the end of Season."

[*]DavidCarusoFans.com has added an article to its archive in which <font color=yellow>David Caruso</font> (Horatio Caine) discusses the death of character Tim Speedle. "Horatio calls out for help and comforts Speedle as he lies bleeding," Caruso told the British newspaper The Sun. "He is totally devastated when Speedle dies."

[*]<font color=yellow>Gary Sinise</font> (Mac Taylor) will lend his voice to the upcoming IMAX(R) Film Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D. The film takes audiences to the lunar surface to walk alongside the 12 extraordinary astronauts who have been there - to experience what they saw, heard, felt, thought and did. It will primarily be narrated by <font color=yellow>Tom Hanks</font>, but will also feature the voices of Sinise, <font color=yellow>Paul Newman</font>, <font color=yellow>Matt Damon</font>, <font color=yellow>Matthew McConaughey</font>, <font color=yellow>Morgan Freeman</font>, <font color=yellow>John Travolta</font>, and <font color=yellow>Bill Paxton</font>. Magnificent Desolation opens exclusively in IMAX theatres starting September 23, 2005.

[*]<font color=yellow>Adam Rodriguez</font> (Eric Delko) recently attended the Verizon Wireless V Cast Suite, linked to the MTV Video Music Awards, in Miami. Images of these can be found at JustAdam.net. The website has also added screen caps of the trailer of Rodriguez's new movie Keeper of the Past, and reported <font color=yellow>Elizabeth Devine</font> recently answered for USA Weekend why the female characters of Miami dress the way they do while processing crime scenes or performing autopsies. "The show is about discovery," Devine said. "We make sure you can see the faces of our actresses as they examine the evidence."

[*]The William Petersen Attic has been updated with screen caps of the CSI episode "Weeping Willows."

[*]CSI: New York director <font color=yellow>David Von Ancken</font> has landed a new project filming an American Civil War-era drama movie that is scheduled to start filming in New Mexico this October. Actors <font color=yellow>Liam Neeson</font> and <font color=yellow>Pierce Brosnan</font> have been cast.

[*]A new tell-all book about David Caruso is rumoured to be in the works by a German company. Entitled We Never Close, the book will reportedly hit the stands on January of 2006. Visit CSI Miami Online for more information.

[*]Fandom Talk has been updated with recaps of the CSI: New York episodes "A Man A Mile and "Outside Man."

[*]The 5th season of CSI has finally made it to Belgium, where it premiered this past Wednesday. New episodes will air Wednesdays at 20:15 RTL-Tvi. In Norway, CSI: Miami will be moving to Thursdays at 22.45 on TV Norge. Season 3 of the show will premiere on September 8th. In Hungary, CSI: New York is set to premiere September 15th on Viasat3 and in Ireland, the Miami episode "Crime Wave" will not be shown in light of the floodings that occurred this week in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. The show will also be pre-empted next season for the World Cup Qualifier game between Ireland and France, but will return Wednesday September 21st on RTE 2 at 9.00 pm. More European news can be found at the European CSI Forum.

[*]A new study recently revealed the portrayal of gay characters on television is diminishing. According to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), out of 710 "series regulars" that will appear over the next few months, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters make up less than 2 percent. GLAAD Entertainment Media Director <font color=yellow>Damon Romine</font> publicly criticized shows like CSI, which feature gay murderers or victims, but does not have a single gay character on the show. "What message does it send to the audience when the only gay people on the show are either murderers or victims?"

[*]An article at Blogcritics.org also took a slam at CSI for its sensationalistic storylines. "The acting is amateur-standard and overblown, the scripts cliched and melodramatic, the plotlines frequently ridiculous, and - most infuriatingly of all - the series relies for its impact not, on traditional dramatic elements such as plot or characterization, but on a liberal display of gore to which the counterpoint is a prevailing attitude of world-weariness from the principal players."

[*]<font color=yellow>Mariska Hargitay</font> recently beat <font color=yellow>Marg Helgenberger</font> (Catherine Willows) in a magazine poll that asked, who's America's top television female cop? Helgenberger came in second place.

[*]This season, CBS plans to intensify the advertising of returning shows CSI and Without A Trace, believing those to be its strongest contenders.

[*]<font color=yellow>Tom Dorsey</font> of the Courier-Journal in Kentucky, recently studied the differences and similarities between the shows CSI and Law and Order. Dorsey found that while CSI beat Law and Order in the ratings, the two shows may actually share a high number of fans.

[*]And students who are currently pursuing a career in crime scene investigation continue discovering the real-life life of a lab rat is nothing like the way they portray it on CSI. <font color=yellow>Hillary Moses</font> has been working as a CSI for the Hayward Police Department in California and finds watching CSI isn't as enjoyable as it used to be, as she spends more time yelling at her television set now. "No one in the real world would do it that way! There's no TIME to do it that way!"[/list]<center></center>
 
A new study recently revealed the portrayal of gay characters on television is diminishing. According to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), out of 710 "series regulars" that will appear over the next few months, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters make up less than 2 percent. GLAAD Entertainment Media Director Damon Romine publicly criticized shows like CSI, which feature gay murderers or victims, but does not have a single gay character on the show. "What message does it send to the audience when the only gay people on the show are either murderers or victims?"

Actually, Bobby from ballistics was written in as a gay character and that was supposed to be revealed when he was supposed to talk about his lover and his adopted daughter, but that scene was cut out because at the time, they did not think going in the character's personal lives would be smart. Now that the show is more established, maybe they'll put it back in?

An article at Blogcritics.org also took a slam at CSI for its sensationalistic storylines. "The acting is amateur-standard and overblown, the scripts cliched and melodramatic, the plotlines frequently ridiculous, and - most infuriatingly of all - the series relies for its impact not, on traditional dramatic elements such as plot or characterization, but on a liberal display of gore to which the counterpoint is a prevailing attitude of world-weariness from the principal players."

I think I'm going to paraphrase Peterson when I say, if all 40 million of us were watching for the science, then we'd be watching discovery channel, but because we're not, obviously we're interested in the plots and characters. Sigh. People really should do some research before bashing a show...
 
I posted this comment right under the article..couldn't let the little insult go by..just goes to show the maturity level of this guy..and I gave it right back to him in the end.

Boy you really don't like the show do you.

First of all, get your facts straight. His name is Gil Grissom, not Gus, Gil.

And really how can I take anyone seriously who instead of arguing a critical point uses terms such as 'lardarse'. That just shows the maturity level of this writer which probably less than my five-year old daughter. I hope when she reaches your age, she won't be going around calling someone a 'pasty lardarse' to make a point. Didn't your mother ever teach that it's not nice to call people names?

And no, it may not be 'true to real life CSIs, but neither was ER, and neither was 'Quincy' and neither is 'Law and Order'.

It's about the entertainment...stupid.
 
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