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• George Eads, who plays Nick Stokes on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, celebrates his 42nd birthday today, March 1. The actor shares his birthday with Roger Daltrey, who turns 65 today. Daltry is the frontman for The Who, the legendary rock band responsible for "Who Are You", "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley", the theme songs for the CSI series. (The original news is from Journal Now.)

• CSI: New York's Hill Harper (Dr Sheldon Hawkes) will appear in the CW network series The Game on April 3. The actor is guest-starring as himself. (Source)

• CSI Files previously reported that former CSI star William Petersen (Gil Grissom) would perform Blackbird at the Victory Gardens Theater this summer. It has been announced that Petersen will perform opposite Mattie Hawkinson in the play.

• Battlestar Galactica director Michael Nankin will helm an upcoming episode of CSI. Nankin is excited to work with Laurence Fishburne (Dr Raymond Langston). "He produced and starred in one of my favorite movies of all time, Always Outnumbered," the director told iF Magazine. "It's this beautiful HBO film based on the Walter Mosley book. I can't wait to tell him how much I loved it."

• As CSI Files previously reported, New York's Gary Sinise (Mac Taylor) and his Lt Dan Band did a performance to benefit McHenry County Public Action to Deliver Shelter (PADS). The concert sold out. "I love supporting good causes," Sinise told the Northwest Herald. "We do a lot of benefits. It's nice that they [PADS] asked us."

• Spoilers ahoy!

  CSI: NY will welcome television legend Ed Asner for a guest appearance in an episode set to air in late April. Ausiello reports that the actor will play a clockmaker with a mysterious past. According to CSI Files sources, Asner will appear in the twenty-second episode of the season, tentatively titled "Yahrzeit".

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