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• Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) told the Canadian TV Guide that while her character may still be heart-broken over Gil Grissom, Sara has also been taking some second and third glances at Greg Sanders this year. "He looks good in a jumpsuit," she said. Meanwhile, Gary Dourdan commented on the sexual tension between his character of Warrick Brown and Marg Helgenberger's Catherine Willows. "A little action on the set is a good thing...I'm not sure they're going to get married, but they're going to have fun." Thanks go out to 'LSI' at YTDAW for this!

• R&B singer Ashanti told the Associated Press that she sometimes feels a bit jealous of the coroners on CSI. "I wanted to major in business management and minor in forensic science," Ashanti said. ""I watched Court TV, I watched Autopsy, I watched Forensic Files, all of that. I was fascinated by it."

• Andrew O'Hehir at internet magazine Salon.com wasn't a fan of the CSI season finale. "CSI is the big television hit of the George W. Bush era, and the message it delivers over and over is, appropriately, a simple one: Step outside the boundaries of conventional family life -- into bisexuality, cross-dressing, Ecstasy raves, Goth rituals, or just some extramarital whoopee -- and you're likely to wind up exsanguinated on someone else's bathroom floor, with pantyhose in your mouth. Tarantino is a culture icon of the '90s if there ever was one, and it's safe to say that his moral code, to the extent he has one that isn't quoted from Sam Peckinpah, flows through a more lubricious valley. [...] Quentin's little CSI experiment is morbid as cold molasses, sometimes fascinating but hardly any fun."

• The Who frontman Pete Townshend recently won three BMI Film & TV Awards for providing the theme songs for all three CSI shows, according to a BMI press release.

• Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders) attended a "Cuervo de Mayo" holiday concert on CuervoNation, an eight-acre island off the coast of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. According to a press release from Jose Cuervo, the event was organised to promote Cuervo's tequila brand. Thanks go out to Elyse's for this!

• And 'Sobell' at Television Without Pity has posted a recaplet of "Grave Danger" ahead of her full article on the episode. "[The] thing that had me picking my jaw up off the floor was the show's continued effort to transform Ecklie from a caricature into a complex character," Sobell wrote. "But -- but -- but…whatsoever will we do without our cartoon villain?"

• A big disappointment for Saginaw Valley State University biology professor Steve Thaber: he'd been told that his book Fire Ants would be used by Gil Grissom in "Grave Danger," but instead the CSI used a different book in the CSI season finale to help him track down Nick Stokes. "It hardly affected me at all," Thaber told the Saginaw News. "I thought, 'Well, it's a little dirty,' and that was about it."

• BlogCritics.org has posted an article looking at the dedicated group of CSI fans at Talk CSI who are completely smitten with Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny Messer).

• Between the 24th and the 26th of June, the VES-VFX Festival of Visual Effects will take place in Santa Monica, California. According to an article on VFX World, the festival will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the visual effects of CSI.

• Issue 12 of the official British CSI: The DVD Collection magazine, available now in the United Kingdom and Ireland, features Nick Stokes on the cover. Inside the magazine are articles on archaeology in forensics, serial killers' signatures and habits, the fluroscope and how it works, and an interview with the real-life Dr. Robbins. The magazine comes with a DVD containing the episodes "The Strip Strangler" and "Burked."

• CBS.com has posted synopses of both CSI: New York's "What You See Is What You See" and the original CSI's "Grave Danger."

• The Kentucky Herald-Leader notes that CSI is the most popular TV show in Lexington, Kentucky.

• David Caruso Online has posted new screencaps of ten episodes from all of CSI: Miami's three seasons.

• And the DCO also notes that David Caruso (Horatio Caine) yesterday participated in the Volvo Hyannis Port Challenge, a charity fundraising bike ride between the JFK Library in Boston and the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port.

• Erica's CSI Caps Page has no less than a thousand screencaps from "Grave Danger."

• JustAdam.net has posted new photos of Adam Rodriguez (Eric Delko) in New York.

• And finally, here's the usual mix of articles dealing with the effect CSI has on the real world. Both the Standard-Journal and WTRF in Wheeling, WV, recently wrote about students engaging in mock CSI investigations, while the Washington Post looked at how CSI is influencing juries across the nation. For the latter article, a CBS spokeswoman was contacted, who said producers of the show would not comment on its effect on jurors and in courtrooms "because they are not lawyers or judges. They are in the entertainment industry."

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