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4B The Baytown Sun
Saturday. December 8,2001
Entertainment
Vegas and crime paying
off for ‘CSF series creator
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By LYNN ELBER
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Anthony
Zuiker, creator of “CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation,” may not
have suffered for his art. But
he’s been really, really scared
in its service.
For research, Zuiker rode
along with Las Vegas criminal-
ists on the graveyard shift
about two years ago. Arriving
at the scene of a kidnapping-
assault, he was handed a flash-
light and put to work searching
for evidence.
Suddenly ... well, let the TV
writer tell it.
“I’m on all fours, looking. I
lift the bedskirt and I see two
eyeballs,” he recalled. "A hand
comes out, scratches me on the
face. I flew up, hit the ceiling,
shouting There's somebody
under the bed!’... My heart is
gunga, gunga, gunga!"
Authorities had an arrest and
Zuiker had a plot twist for his
debut episode, in which a
young investigator is shot by a
burglar who has returned to
the crime location.
The CBS drama about
crime-busting forensic scien-
tists in Las Vegas emerged as a
hit in its first year and is doing
even better as a sophomore.
It’s the No. 2 drama on TV this
season, behind only “ER."
In “CSI,” professionals
bring order out of chaos, turn-
ing the messiest crime scene
into tidy evidence. They speak
in appropriately concise dia-
logue as devised by Zuiker and
company.
Performing solo in an inter-
view? however, Zuiker is an
ebullient storyteller whose
yarns come with sound effects
and a generous sprinkling of
“cools.”
Pre-show business, he
worked as a stockbroker, a
tram operator at the Mirage
and "assistant garbanzo bean"
in the hotel-casino’s ad depart-
ment, with duties including
copy editing.
There is, Zuiker insists, a
certain symmetry in his cre-
ation of “CSI.” When he
signed up for a forensics class
at his Las Vegas high school,
he was thinking of emulating
Jack Klugman in “Quincy
M.E.,” the 1976-83 drama
about a medical examine^-—-.
The class was not about
forensic medicine; it was com-
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“Vegas is a 24-hour
town, with 30 million
people arriving to
patronize it every
year. There's a man-
made lake, Lake
Mead, for floaters and
drownings.... A lot of
flat desert sand for
mob hits and shenani-
gans in hotel rooms
in the casinos."
Anthony Zuker
CSI creator
petitive speaking. After a ten-
tative start, Zuiker ended up
parlaying his skill in the field
into college scholarships.
Crafting and delivering
remarks turned out to be solid
preparation for screenwriting.
When an actor-friend began
acing auditions using Zuiker’s
speeches, it didn’t take long
for Hollywood to come knock-
ing — in the form of a
William Morris agent.
"This lady calls me up and
asks ‘Can you write a screen-
play?’ I'm like, 7 have worked
very hard to be assistant gar-
banzo bean at the Mirage ad
department. I really have no
time for pipe dreams.’”
The angst of having an
unfriendly supervisor, howev-
er, persuaded Zuiker to invest
in books on screenwriting. He
and his buddy wrote a script,
“The Runner,” in six weeks
and quickly got a $35,000
offer for it.
“SOLD! Absolutely
SOLD!” was Zuikers reaction,
followed by “I’m out of here!”
to his Mirage boss. He packed
up with his then-girlfriend
(now wife, Jennifer, with
whom he has a 1 1/2-year-old
son) and headed to Los
Angeles.
After seeing "The Runner”
turned into a disappointing
film, Zuiker worked on other
scripts — including one for
Leonardo DiCaprio, then hot
off "Titanic” — that failed to
come to fruition.
Try writing for television, an
agent suggested, setting up a
pitch with Jerry Bruckheimer’s
("Black Hawk Down,” "Pearl
Harbor") production company.
T only want to do one thing.
I’ve gotta do something with
forensic science,” he told com-
pany executives. It wasn’t
"Quincy M.E.” inspiring him;
this time it was a nonfiction
series on forensics, “The New
Detectives” on Discovery
Channel, that hooked Zuiker.
He quickly laid out
his vision for the drama; Open
after violence has occurred.
Follow the process of detec-
tion, being specific about
methods, then re-create the
crime at the end. Magnified
shots of bullet wounds and hair
follicles would be de rigueur.
"We'll make science cool
and fun for America. That's
what we’ll do,” Zuiker pro-
nounced in his pitch. “On one
end, there will be a mystery
and people can guess who the
killer is. And we’ll have flawed
characters doing good by solv-
ing crimes and bringing piece
of mind to the survivors.”
Starring as the heroic scien-
tists are William Petersen,
Marg Helgenberger, Gary
Dourdan, George Eads and
Jorja Fox.
Zuiker wanted to set the
show in Las Vegas in part
because he had moved back to
the city but mostly because of
the dramatic opportunities it
offered. He ticks them off
cheerfully:
"Vegas is a 24-hour town,
with 30 million people arriving
to patronize it every year.
There’s a man-made lake, Lake
Mead, for floaters and drown-
ings. ... A lot of flat desert
sand for mob hits and shenani-
gans in hotel rooms in the
casinos.”
The show takes license in
having its criminalists bird-dog
cases from evidence through to
arrest. But there are those, like
Las Vegas’ Daniel Holstein,
who "go the distance,” Zuiker
said; Holste)n was the model
for Gil GrisSom, Petersen’s
character.
While this seasons scripts
are more ambitious and a
"touch more" expensive,
Zuiker said his intention is to
stay the course set last year by
executive producers Ann
Donahue and Carol
Mendelsohn.
A repeat of the Golden
Globe nomination for best dra-
matic series would be exciting,
Zuiker said. He’s already plan-
ning to get up early for the
Dec. 20 announcement (“The
West Wing” took last year’s
trophy).
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