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Kids:
Here's hoping the liberal ingestion of hangover killing herbs and assorted
pharmaceuticals has landed you, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on this tuesday
after. Hope everybody had a great holiday. 'Pirates' didn't best 'Spider Man 3'
in stateside B.O. #'s but 400 million in six days, worldwide, is certainly nothing
to sneeze at.
Looks like the axe has fallen on our beloved Kevin Reilly at NBC. We were going
to do this really great six part mini-series based on 'Prime Suspect' (the format,
not the story itself) about this 'Trap Team' for the FBI that targets uncatchable
types (serial killers, mass murderers, etc) and it was pretty sensational stuff. Really
dark and hard and ugly and not fit for prime time presentation. DESPITE THAT, we
were moving forward, so who knows which way the wind blows now. One minute
you're getting this fat, seven-layer contract extension and then next your rattling
a tin cup on the corner for loose change. Reilly's a brutally smart guy and shouldn't
have any trouble in transition. It's just a shame that his leaving the network might
imperil such a dynamite project.
Such is the biz. What's coddled one minute, is curdled the next.
Prequel moving forward. The story is fantastic too. Wish I could divulge. The bad
guy represents, at least to me, the single scariest force at work in the United States
today. As details emerge, the Nigerians and I will share at discretion.
JC
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