Saffron Burrows eyes 'Criminal Intent'

Saffron Burrows is in negotiations to join USA Network's drama "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."

The network and production company Dick Wolf Films declined comment on the casting, but sources indicated Burrows ("Boston Legal") would play a new partner for Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth).

Julianne Nicholson, who plays Logan's partner Detective Wheeler, recently had her second child.

"L&O: CI," which revolves around the four detectives from the Major Case Squad, also stars Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren and Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames.
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'Laugh-In' Actor Henry Gibson Dies

Henry Gibson, a wry comic character actor whose career included "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," "Nashville" and "Boston Legal," died Monday at his home in Malibu after a brief battle with cancer. He was 73.

Gibson's breakthrough came in 1968 when he was cast as a member of the original ensemble of NBC's top-rated "Laugh-In," on which he performed for three seasons. Each week, a giant flower in his hand, he recited a signature poem, introducing them with the catchphrase that became his signature: "A Poem, by Henry Gibson."

The poems proved so popular that they led to the release of two comedy albums, "The Alligator" and "The Grass Menagerie," as well as a book, "A Flower Child's Garden of Verses."

After "Laugh-In," he played the evil Dr. Verringer in "The Long Goodbye" (1973), the first of four films in which he appeared for director Robert Altman. Their second collaboration came in "Nashville" (1975) in which Gibson earned a Golden Globe nomination and National Society of Film Critics award for his performance as country singer Haven Hamilton. He also wrote his character's songs.

In television, recent notable work included a five-season stint as cantankerous Judge Clarence Brown on "Boston Legal" and multiple episodes as the voice of sardonic, eye-patched newspaperman Bob Jenkins on the animated "King of the Hill."

Gibson is survived by three sons, Jon, a business affairs executive at Universal Pictures; Charles, a director and two-time Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor; James, a screenwriter, and two grandchildren, Matthew and Miranda.

Memorial services are pending. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Friends of the Malibu Public Library.
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Betty White gets Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award

Let's hear it for the woman who was Sue Ann Nivens and Rose Nylund.

Betty White, who is 87, is receiving the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

She will collect the award in January, when TBS and TNT will present the Screen Actors Guild Awards. (She is shown at the Daytime Emmys in August.)

The Life Achievement Award goes to a performer who fosters the "finest ideals of the acting profession."

I think what they're saying is Betty White is a pro, a good person and a fine example.

Viewers appreciate her deliciously catty work as Sue Ann on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Who can forget Lou Grant's visit to her bedroom? Or Phyllis Lindstrom's shock that her husband, Lars, was having an affair with Sue Ann?

White graduated to a starring role as Rose on "The Golden Girls." She, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty formed a first-rate, beloved quartet.
White has made strong contributions to other series, from "The Practice" and "Boston Legal" to "Ally McBeal" and "My Name Is Earl" to "Mama's Family" and even "The Bold and the Beautiful."

She has been a vital presence in radio, movies, game shows and talk shows. She has been one of Hollywood's greatest advocates for animals. And she has kept going with class and wit.

Betty White -- she's a pistol, and her aim is still true.
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a Fitting Tribute to Boston Legal

Star Trek star William Shatner has again been nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category for his role as Denny Crane on Boston Legal. This is Shatner's sixth consecutive nomination for his performance as Denny Crane.

Shatner won an Emmy in 2004 for the guest role of lawyer Denny Crane in The Practice and another in 2005 for the same character in the spinoff Boston Legal.
Shatner expressed his gratitude in a Twitter post soon after the announcement out of Los Angeles. "What a fitting tribute to aunique show," he wrote. "The Emmy would enter a pantheon to memorialize a wonderful television event."
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