Hollywood Reporter July 19-24 issue

~ Nona Gaye has been removed from the LOCI page at NBC Media Village.

Goren on the Ground

Your request, Leah --

Photo is copyrighted by Inhyung 2006.

More location photos

More photos from July 19 in Washington Square Park.

The photos are copyright 2006 Inhyung.

Thank you Firefligh for the link!

It was a hot day.

All photos are ©2006 pj mungiole.

On the set of LOCI in NYC~ July 19, 2006

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New Captain: Actor Eric Bogosian (in NYPD vest)

Dick Wolf talks about "Law" and his re-order

From Seattlepi.com
July 21

Excerpted ~
Dick Wolf talks about "Law" and his re-order
Dick Wolf took the stage Friday afternoon and tried to make nice before talking about the changes in the "Law & Order" franchise. Another edition would be premiering August 14, he said.

With that, the lights dimmed and a signature voice introduced "Law & Order: Special Letters Unit," in which Muppet detectives hunted down the letter M. Wolf went on to explain that "Sesame Street" would be plowing through all 26 letters of the alphabet using this format, then joked about getting 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds hooked on the brand.

Except it wasn't really a joke, if you know Dick Wolf. Wolf is an executive producer who speaks the language of revenue and proliferation instead of storylines; he leaves that up to the cogs in the "Law & Order" machine we know as writers and actors.

Following the oh-so-cute Muppet segment, Wolf starting throwing out percentages: 52 percent of TNT's schedule is "Law & Order." "SVU" takes up 43 percent of USA's, with "Criminal Intent" filling another 25 percent. "Intent" is also the highest-rated series on Bravo. The format is at work on French and Russian television; in France, Vince D'Onofrio's character is being played by Vincent Perez, which is just not fair.

....Finally, Julianne Nicholson crawled out of the wreckage of "Conviction" to win the role of Detective Megan Wheeler on "Criminal Intent," which moves to Tuesdays at 9 (also starting on Sept. 19). One might wonder if viewers will buy such a quick transition from one Wolf show to another, until one takes into account that a) Nicholson now sports a pixie cut that makes her look like a young Shirley MacLaine; and b) c'mon, did anyone care that deeply about "Conviction"? Nope.
Also joining the cast: Eric Bogosian, set to play Capt. Denny Ross.

Full article.

~ The new ADA, Kent (the part reportedly gone to Nona Gaye) is not mentioned here. There are rumors that there is more auditioning for a new ADA, yet Nona Gaye is still listed on NBC's Media Village CI page. We'll see in Sept!!

Thanks to EH for update.

LOCI Premiere set for Sept 19th

From NBC Universal Media Village
July 21, 2006

On Tuesday, September 19, NBC's crime dramas "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (9-10 p.m. ET) and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (10-11 p.m. ET) begin new seasons paired up on the same night. The ambitious drama "Friday Night Lights" (Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m. ET) -- inspired by the hit feature film that conveys the passions of a small Texas town for its top-ranked football team and stars Kyle Chandler ("King Kong") -- will debut on Tuesday, October 3.

Thank you to BobbyG.

"Law & Order" video game targets wider audience

Hollywood Reporter
By John Gaudiosi July 20

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Legacy Interactive is trying something unusual with its latest game based on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."

Consumers are being offered the option to buy it in separate installments from NBC.com as well as from more common sources like Yahoo! Games. Read full article.

Thank you to Mel

Law and Order: USA

Cops shows, as much as reality shows, are the emblematic television of our time.

by Daniel Oppenheimer - July 13, 2006

There's something irresistible about the way that Vincent D'Onofrio, as Detective Robert Goren on Law & Order: Criminal Intent , deploys his Vulcan neck tilt to get inside and jigger with the heads of the suspects. I also like how David Caruso, CSI: Miami's forensic criminologist-in-chief, refuses to look any of his co-stars in the eye, and how Anthony LaPaglia, the sloe-eyed FBI agent on Without a Trace , takes care of his team of missing persons specialists. In fact, I enjoy most of the hundreds of shows that orient around endearingly repressed super-cops.

Full article.

Thanks to BobbyG

Gallic 'LOCI' stars another Vincent

From Variety
June 30, 2006
By ALISON JAMES

Perez stars in Gallic 'Law'

Gallic thesp Vincent Perez will reprise Vincent d'Onofrio's Det. Robert Goren role in the Gallic language version of "Law and Order: Criminal Intent."
"I'm sure Vincent Perez will make the part his own," said "L&O" producer Dick Wolf, comparing the two thesps at the Monte Carlo TV festival on Thursday. "Both of them are intense."

"L&O" stars Richard Belzer and Diane Neal, "Grey's Anatomy's" Ellen Pompeo, "Commander in Chief's" Geena Davis, "The Unit's" Dennis Haysbert and "Lost's" Jorge Garcia and Daniel Dae Kim were among a bevvy of talent tubthumping an array of U.S. shows in Monte Carlo, attended by some 1,200 participants this year.

With Gaul's "L&O," the long hunt for the right actor is only one of the hurdles that Gallic commercial web TF1's production unit Alma has had to overcome in its efforts to reproduce the hit series to the web's -- and Wolf and NBC Universal's -- liking.

Under the terms of an unusual deal, the U.S. partners have approval rights over artistic elements such as cast and scripts, while NBC Universal will handle international sales of the Gallic show.

"We're pretty involved," said Wolf, predicting, "I think it is going to be very good."

The French show will be an attractive proposition for European TV buyers because it falls within quotas that require webs to air at least 50% European programming.

Wolf and NBC are involved in a similar local language adaptation of "L&O" for Russian TV, which concerns both "Criminal Intent" and "Special Victim Unit" spinoffs.

After selling "L&O" around the world, the local adaptations are the next step in exploiting the property internationally.

A Swashbuckling Good Time

"Pirates of the Caribbean" Premiere

'Vincent D’Onofrio said he’d been riding rides all day with his kids.'

"...the star of Law and Order: Criminal Intent also had high praises for Depp, “To look as handsome as Johnny and pull off character work isn’t an easy thing to do.”

When I asked him how he’d question Jack Sparrow in the interrogation room, he said, “I’d take his ship.”

:: Thank you to FractalMatter for permission to republish

Video Snippet....

Vincent's critique of a student's cold reading from
Elizabeth D'Onofrio's NYC workshop, March 2006.

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From Movie Maker magazine ~

Excerpted from "The Dangerous Life of Director Peter Care"
~Interview with Peter Care, director of "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys"

MM: As a first-timer, was it intimidating to direct the likes of Foster and Vincent D'Onofrio?

PC: It was for a few minutes, yeah I'll admit that. (laughs) But I think because I had spent a fair amount of time with Jodie talking about the script, and I changed the idea for the character-Sister Assumpta was written as a kind of Roald Dahl, big beefy ugly woman and I was saying that 'I don't want this. I think we should get someone who is really kind of younger and stronger and more three-dimensional than this cartoon character.' I think that was her signal that I was really into someone like her being in the role. So the ice was broken months ahead of when we were actually shooting. The thing is we had to do so much in the first two or three days with Jodie that I didn't have time to get nervous; I just had to get my shots. (laughs)

And Vincent was a joy. We had a little time to just talk about the part. Obviously, I had a huge respect for him and it just came together kind of organically. There was no disagreement about any aspect of the two adult characters with my actors. It came together very smoothly.

Full article.

LOCI Season 2 on DVD in UK

DVD Times

Universal Playback have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Law & Order Season 4 and Law & Order: Criminal Intent Season 2 for 17th July 2006. The next seasons in the original franchise and one of its spin-offs come to UK DVD priced at £44.99 each. There are no announced extras.

:: Thanks Deb

~ Also at Amazon.com.uk