Carin Van Der Donk and husband!

Vincent and Carin

Business Council for Peace's Second Annual Gala and Auction was held on May 9th, 2007 at the Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park. The money raised at the Gala will be used to finance Bpeace's Economic Development Programs. Among those in attendance were Carin van der Donk and husband Vincent D'Onofrio. Event organizers took the opportunity to recognize Carin's social entrepreneurial work from the podium.

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Law and Order: Criminal Intent

- Vincent Donofrio Carries This Compelling Television Show
"Character Robert Goren is the lynchpin to this gripping detective drama"
by Craig Kohler, Associated Content, 5.21.07

Recently rumored to be leaving the show, Vincent Donofrio is (fortunately) now slated to stay on for future seasons of Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Why is this so significant? Simply put: the show revolves around his brilliantly developed character: Robert Goren. Donofrio brings his big-screen movie experience to this television show, elevating it well above the average American cop or detective drama. Even people who are not fans of the genre should give the series a try, solely based on the strength of Donofrio's main character.

Donofrio's character on Law and Order: Criminal Intent represents a complex mixture of tortured genius and brilliant sleuth. He is at once able to slip inside the minds of criminals and profile them to the point where he can break them psychologically and, often, cause them to confess. The most gripping moments of Law and Order: CI inevitably involve Donofrio. These frequently feature the Goren character's realizations or edge-of-your-seat interviews with suspects. However, equally often, such intense scenes reflect his failures or self-doubt. The show's other characters are at their best when they play off of Donofrio, supporting, questioning or even undermining the character of Robert Goren.
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LO:CI "For Your Consideration" Emmy DVD

Correction 5/18: This is "For Your Consideration" DVD - not nomination. Thanks to Geoff and Animaltalker for the listing of "For Your Consideration" episodes/actors from the Wolf Family - all 3 L&O's.

Update 5.25.07 - Animaltalker has provided an updated "For Your Consideration" listing which includes LO:CI guest actors, Roy Scheider and Tony Goldwyn.
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Another "For Your Consideration" Emmy nomination DVD for an episode of Criminal Intent just showed up on Ebay. Apparently Doris Roberts was nominated for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series" for her role in "Privilege".

Thank you Linda S.

The Day After the Night Before

by James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
5.15.07

I hope everyone is luxuriating in the rosy afterglow of the day after Roy Scheider Day. In a world strewn with disappointments and ornate anticlimaxes, last night's Law & Order: Criminal Intent lifted one's confidence that all is not crap. As the serial killer who fancied himself quite the ladies' man, Scheider was scarily affable and affably scary, a cat-and-mousing Machiavelli--a nostalgic sociopath pouring out his secrets in neat little sips. The entire cast grimly shone, from guest stars Rita Moreno (playing Bobby Goren's dying mother), Tony Goldwyn (his needy-beady, opportunistic brother), and Mark Linn-Baker (making a welcome reappearance as a nerdy murderer with Asberger syndrome) to the show's regulars, with Vincent D'Onofrio outdoing himself, receiving blow after blow of bad news as if the bad news were inside him, trying to punch its way out. The episode confronted mortality with a bleak clarity without making the ponderous to-do about itself that has afflicted The Sopranos as it plods towards the elephant's graveyard with sidetrips to peyote-land. More.

"Endgame" review

by Todd Thatcher, TVGuide.com
5.14.07

Wow. Hands down, this was the best episode of the season, and it certainly ranks among the top outings to date. The craftsmanship was just so far superior to what most crime dramas offer today — particularly in the way Killer Scheider’s death row countdown dovetailed with the deathwatch over Goren’s cancer-stricken mother.

I loved the whole format of this episode, the way we worked backwards to slowly unearth decades of brutal crimes and long-buried bodies. And it was made all the more disturbing by Roy Scheider’s chilling portrayal of a serial killer delighting in his murderous reminiscences, lovingly flipping through his scrapbooks of victims like they were cherished family albums. More.

6 seasons ago

TV Guide ~ 9.21.2001

LO:CI Renewed!!!

From NBC Media Village
5.13.07

ALL THREE "LAW & ORDER"- BRANDED SERIES WILL CONTINUE ON THE NETWORKS OF NBC UNIVERSAL

NBC Universal is bringing back all three "Law & Order'-branded series for the 2007- 2008 television season.

"Law & Order" will return to the NBC network for an unprecedented 18th season. It joins the previously announced "Law & Order: SVU" on the network's prime time schedule. "Law & Order" is the longest running crime drama in television history, and second only to the longest running drama series "Gunsmoke," which ran for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975. More.

Thanks to Peachybc, Mel, BobbyG, Pat, Rachael, Animelee, Amanda, Marion, Adi, Leslie, Sharon, Denise, Remmie .....and to all of the visitors who dropped us an email.
THANK YOU!!

"Renewal" photos

Thank you to Jefferaldo for these NBC photos from the last
episode for the season, "Renewal".
~ airs Monday, 5.21 and Tuesday, 5.22



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"Endgame" photos

Thanks so much to Jefferaldo for sharing these NBC photos from the upcoming episode "Endgame".
~ airs Monday, 5.14 at 10pm and Tuesday, 5.15 at 9pm.


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Filming "Staten Island" - candid photos

Thank you Judy!

Filming on location in Staten Island, NY with Ethan Hawke for the film "Staten Island". More photos can be found at Newscom



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sent in by SEP, with regard to smoking comments...
"Smoke in MPAA's eyes"- The Hollywood Reporter, 5.11.07

Ripped From the Airwaves

by David Blum, The New York Sun
5.2.07

"Creative people come up with creative solutions," Dick Wolf recently told the New York Times in a story about the dwindling prospects for keeping "Law & Order" on television next year. Who am I to quibble with the genius who devised "Law & Order" back in 1990 and got millions of us hooked on its endlessly adaptable formula? But now Mr. Wolf needs an equally creative inspiration if he wants to save his show and its spin-offs from cancellation later this month. Yelling at NBC executives isn't it.
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"How scandals inspire 'Law & Order's' stories"
By RICHARD HUFF, The NY Daily News
5.1.07

Britney, Mel, Anna Nicole.

The highly visible downward spirals of big-name celebrities have proven to be an even bigger boon for producers of TV shows than real-life incidents as fodder for fictional crime stories.

"I don't think the TV shows are changing," says Warren Leight, executive producer of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." "I think there may be a downward mobility to our celebrity culture. ... People of less and less accomplishment are getting their 15 minutes of fame. And these people tend to malfunction at an alarming rate."

And those headlines fuel writers' imaginations. Sort of.

Leight should know. More.

Thanks Mel