“Franco Nero will guest-star in the Law & Order: SVU season premiere as an Italian dignitary accused of rape, evoking the Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrest.” [TVG via Daily Intel, earlier: DSK gets pawsy with every person employed by Air France, earlier: DKS roams New York like a cat in heat]
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Will Dominique Strauss-Kahn-Inspired Law And Order: SVU Episode Include Air The Traffic Controller He Probably Put His Mitts On?
By Bess Levin
Burnett’s show was announced in the same memo in which the bad news was broken that Eliot Spitzer’s foray into television, In The Arena, will be put out to pasture, which could make things around the water cooler slightly awkward (apparently Spitzer hasn’t yet left the building, with network execs trying to find him “an alternative role”). Continue reading »
HBO has announced the Entourage creator Doug Ellin will produce a new ensemble show featuring four 40 year-old friends living in New York. Among them: “a rich metrosexual,” “a ripped personal trainer,” “a schlumpy neurotic married guy” and a former Bear Stearns exec who made $2 million a year and has now been out of work for almost 12 months, played by Ed Burns. Jimmy Cayne has presumably been asked to consult on the project, but if anyone else has some tips for Burns on how to make this character as real a possible, please share them at this time. [Deadline]
Earlier today on CNBC, Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus pitched a new TV series. “Take Timothy Geithner and put him in a new reality show,” Marcus told Squawk Box. “It’s called ‘Timothy Geithner Does Small Business’, something like ‘Debbie Does Dallas’, and it ends up the same way,” he said. ”Basically, what they [the government] is doing to small business is very similar in this case [to what ‘Debbie’ did to Dallas.]” Continue reading »
Just putting it out there. A little taste. You want it? This guy thinks we can make it happen, if we appeal to Spitzer’s need to be heard. Continue reading »
Even if you claim to have no interest in quitting your job before you eventually get fired and continuing to live the sweet Murray Hill lifestyle you’ve grown accustomed to by being made the kept boy of a rich older woman, surely you can admit that there’s some entertainment value in watching others go down that path. Which is why we suggest looking out for “Cougars: NYC,” a reality show now in development that will give us an insider look at life as the hunter and the hunted. God knows when it’ll air– presumably after the tears dry– but the producers held an open casting call last week at Libation, so you know it’s going to be good. According to pussy (cat) Dawn Ellison, who maintains a blog about banging younger men, the series aims to “shatter stereotypes that surround cougars and cubs.”
Not content to sit this one out but unsure where to turn? We suggest RSVP’ing to UBS’s September 9th Hedge Fund Client reception at L’Escale. It’s been internally dubbed a “cougar hunt” and Andrew Cuomo is said to be attending so the upper limit should be almost unfairly high. Consider it good practice.
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