By Kate Seamons
Contrary to what Law & Order has taught you, when it comes to safety you’re better off in the city than the country. Time flags a new study out today that compares large US cities to rural areas, and finds that the risk of injury death (this includes everything from… …read more
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 22 (UPI) — Actor Dennis Farina, who played Detective Joe Fontana on the television series “Law & Order,” died Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz., his publicist said. He was 69. …read more
By The Huffington Post News Editors
“The Good Wife” has tapped New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg for a guest role in the Season 4 finale.
The CBS legal drama, which is set in Chicago and films in New York, will feature Mayor Bloomberg as himself in “What’s In The Box?” Other guest stars that episode include Martha Pilmpton, Ana Gasteyer, Denis O’Hare, Dylan Baker, T.R. Knight and “Roseanne’s” Estelle Parsons. This isn’t the first time “The Good Wife” has tapped real-life political figures to play themselves: Donna Brazile has appeared as herself twice on the series.
Nor is “The Good Wife” the first scripted series to host Mayor Bloomberg: He has previously appeared on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Gossip Girl,” “Law & Order” and more.
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It’s a staple of the “Law & Order” franchise to rip stories straight from the headlines. For the latest episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” the case was one that is very familiar to music fans, and remains as controversial today as it was when the story first broke in 2009. Using obvious counterparts, “SVU” tackled the Chris Brown and Rihanna story.
Brown assaulted Rihanna in 2009 before the Grammy Awards. The two have since reconciled and have remained linked romantically off and on since then. In the “SVU” episode they were Micha and Caleb. Just like Rihanna, Micha was assaulted by Caleb. The case went to trial, but the two reconciled. But “SVU” took their story further down a dark path.
In this fiction, Caleb finally went too far and killed Micha. “Shocked fans gathered in Manhattan tonight to mourn the death of rising talent, Micha Green, whose body was discovered a few hours ago in Bermuda,” a reporter said in the aftermath of hear death.
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