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• The current edition of Country Weekly features Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins) in the "I Love My Country" section, in which the original CSI actor talks about how his parents listened to classic artists like Mel Tormé, Frank Sinatra and Broadway showtunes and how when he first heard George Jones, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, he was instantly hooked. According to 'jerispencerlvl3,' who was kind enough to send this information to us, Hall also said that before turning to acting, he was briefly in several country bands.

• Jorja Fox Online has posted a great group shot of the entire cast of the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, taken at the 2005 Screen Actors Guild awards.

• Salon's Peter Birkhenhead recently wrote about the stunning lack of a sex life that many of the leading men on TV seem to suffer from right now. "They're not just incapable of normal human interaction, they're disdainful of it," Birkenhead opined. "David Caruso, who's made a fitful career out of disdain, doesn't even make eye contact on CSI: Miami. He delivers his lines like it causes him actual physical pain to relate to a mere human." As for Gil Grissom, Birkhenhead expressed his amazement that William Petersen's character never seems to notice a "drop-dead gorgeous girl" like Sara Sidle. Thanks go out to Mel for this!

• JustAdam.net has posted a new interview with Alsono Mayo, the writer and director of the short indie film Keepers of the Past, which featured Adam Rodriguez (Eric Delko).

• DavidCarusoFans.com continues adding new legacy articles about David Caruso (Horatio Caine), including an old 1997 Salon article about Caruso's then-current career implosion, a 2001 roundtable discussion about his Session 9 project, and Playboy's 20 questions from 1994.

• A reader of the Florida Sun-Sentinel recently complained about not being able to understand CSI: Miami's dialogue, thanks to several actors apparently speaking "through clenched teeth and rarely [moving] their lips," but TV reviewer Tom Jicha replied that any problems with viewers not being able to hear the dialogue are likely not going to improve, as network executives don't consider it a problem.

• According to the Futon Critic, CBS has won a Promax & BDA Award in the category Program Promotion Campaign for the way it launched CSI: New York.

• Jan Segrest at TV Squad recently complained about the unrealistically large amount of rain, trees and cold shown on CSI, considering the show is set in a desert region.

• Entertainment Weekly recently published an article about Emmy voters not liking crime shows.

• Speaking to the San Francisco Gate, Canadian singer Esthero blamed the seven-year wait between her quarter-million-selling debut CD and her new album "Wikked Lil' Grrrls" on the addictive power of CSI. "Gary Dourdan [Warrick Brown]," she said. "It's his fault. If he wasn't so becoming, if he was a little more homely, the record would have been finished a long time ago."

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