News Bullets

• Gary Sinise (Mac Taylor) and his Lt. Dan Band will perform at Joe's Bar in Chicago, Il, this upcoming April 7th. Head over to the band's official website for more information.

• Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) announced in her official website that the Style network will air 10 new episodes of the series A Modern Girls Guide To Life on April 21st. Check your local listings for more information.

• An old David Caruso (Horatio Caine) interview with the Spanish magazine El Samana TV has been added to the website David Caruso Fans.com. Caruso described Horatio as, "an interesting character, with striking abilities which, for his work, have to be the best. His scientific part makes it more difficult for the more emotional ones to appear, so your opportunities as an actor decline. It is necessary to look for suitable moments to communicate what you want and to reach the public."

• A new issue of the CSI: Official DVD Collection will be available for purchase soon. With Nick Stokes on the cover, the magazine covers an article on suicide pacts, a feature on colored goggles, and a closer look at mass disasters. Other issues are also available for purchase at the website.

• The website Beyond Imagination has added to its collection screen caps of CSI's opening credits.

• For those of you with a good knowledge of Latin, the website grissomandsara.de has acquired an Italian article on the start of season 5.

• New York recently had a murder case so loaded with forensic evidence that it could've passed for an episode of CSI. Bouncer Darryl Littlejohn was convicted of murdering Imette St. Guillen when investigators found his blood on the ties he used to bind her, and fibers from the carpet in his apartment on the masking tape he used to wrap her head.

• Christina Chang, who played Rebecca Nevins in the third season of CSI: Miami, has landed a role on the FOX comedy pilot Union Jackass. The comedy revolves around a British "Archie Bunker-type" who moves to Santa Monica to be near his son. Chang's character is Sonya Wang, who owns the British pub where the main character works.

• The CSI Effect continues to make the jury selection process an arduous one in courts around the country. "Jurors have the inability to tell real life from entertainment," Clifford Strider, an assistant district attorney in Louisiana, said of CSI fans. "On CSI, someone was found stabbed and they poured plaster in the knife wound to get an image to match to the knife," he continued. "You can't do that. Skin is elastic and changes as soon as a knife is removed."

• The newspaper Sydney Morning Herald recently ran an article about the role of women in television, and columnist Ruth Ritchie didn't give CSI much praise when it comes to portraying realistic women. "All those CSI and Law and Order girls are really just one woman: one boyishly fit 42-year-old automaton with a deep well of lip-gloss, no bum and even less personal life." Ritchie, however, gave Medium high praise for writing a woman, "who entertains even a passing doubt about her abilities."

• Real life crime scene technician Melinda Pierce was interviewed by the Tracy Press about her job, and how realistic, or rather, unrealistic, crime scene investigation is portrayed on television. "I think one of the most common questions I get is if I watch CSI on TV. Most people are surprised when I say no. It's not a bad show, but it is definitely exaggerated for entertainment. The best forensic shows are the ones on The Learning Channel, like Forensic Files. I don't really watch a lot of TV, though. I am more into movies."

• Romy Rosemont, who plays technician Jacqui Franco on CSI, has landed a role on Shar, a law drama created by James Wood. Rosemont will play the district attorney's secretary.

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