8 THE MIRROR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2003 Gritty 'NYPD' breaks norms

BACK TO SCHOOL Grttty from pop 7 envisioned it as a gritty police ｓ ［ ｾ ｌ ･ Ｚ show with reaJistic language and "NYPD Blue" ALL MERCHANDISE shooting days are spent on the sexuality that would rival what 10-50% OFF 20th Century Fox studio lot or a viewcn were gelting on pay-cable When: Ou ch the show al9 p.m. Beaded RockT's 353-'1440 few downtown streets in Los channels. Tuesdays on Channel 7, ABC. Curtains Posters B3'1 16th St. Angeles. Now, the audicnce's broad The show is film ed 0 11 the Tapestries Stickers OPEN 1 D-6. I'IOfI SAT '"You wouldn't realize how acceptance of HBO shows "The streets of New York City. Candles aacklights many times you've seen tJle 53.me Sopranos" and "Sex and the City" A single day of filming for the Incense Clothing Tye Dyes & More thing over and over ag-ain: says hM led the ABC censors to loosen stan; can last for up to 14 hours. executive producer Mark linker. the standards o n "NYPD Blue" A single day's shooting in New even further. Yorkean laslas long as 14 hours- Back on location, Cosselaa r '" don·1 want LO point fin gen," and produce jU!lt a few minutes of and Ｂ ｾ ｲ ｡ ｮ ｺ bound Ollt of their car he says. "but the reality is, at a footage on the show. LO imcrview a forklift operdtor at crime scene you don't get that O nce the scene on the pier is the markel. It is a typical scene kind of physical evidence ... We'll finished , large trucks will haul thai has been on the show dozens go into DNA and o ther parts of lighu and camera cquipmcllljusl of limes. physical evidence, but basically a a hundred yards south to the BlII it's not only about the good homicide investigati on boils Fulton Fish Market for anOlher cha!C. Through the )'C.:tr'5, "Bl ue" down to interrogation and a con- scene. has stayed true to telling Slones ｦ ･ ｳ ｳ ｩ ｯ Ｎ ｾ It's a painslakingly tedious about what goes o n in thc ｨ ･ ｡ ｲ ｾ O r if you're Si powic7., shOving process for just a few minutes of and minds of cops. though thc the heild of a suspect into lhe bars foowgc on lhe shows, but the audience in recenl years has shift- of a holding cell. actors say it pays ofT. Simply having ed to shows like RCS I: Crime Scene Every lV show has a life span, the: Brooklyn Bridge in the back- Investig-dtion"thaL focus on proce- and the C3JIl ( and crew of RBlue" ground "gives us a bener under- dure and techniC<11 analysis of evi- know thal this summer's East slimding ofwhal we're doin g.R says dence. Coast visit could be th eir last. Cordon Clapp. wh o p lays Bill Clark, a 25-year vetcmll of "It's a poSSibility," f r.tn 7. says. Detective Greg Medavoy. the real NYPD and a co-executive "I'm not ready to write it off "NYPD Blue" once was the producer on "Blue," isn't a ran o f after this year," he says. '"When hottest show in prime time. almost how the new wave of shows depict that time does come, it will be an 100 hol. Producer Slcven Bochco police work. emotional thing."

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