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Kill Bill Petersen
Quentin Tarantino takes the helm at CSI
By Dana Stevens
Posted Thursday, May 19, 2005, at 2:32 PM PT
Television isn't normally thought of as a director's medium. TV shows tend to be identified with either the stars who carry them ( The Mary Tyler Moore Show ) or with their producers ("a Jerry Bruckheimer production"). It's not that great directors and TV never mix; Robert Altman got his start working on everything from Alfred Hitchcock Presents to Bonanza , and the first episode of Columbo in 1971 was directed by a 25-year-old Steven Spielberg. More recently, The L Word has attracted indie directors like Lisa Cholodenko and Alison MacLean, and notorious misogynist Neil LaBute, of all people, is slated to direct an episode. Still, it's not too often that a currently hot film director takes time out from his currently hot career to direct a currently hot TV show, as happens tonight when Quentin Tarantino helms the two-hour fifth-season finale of CSI Watching tonight's CSI (8-10 PM ET, CBS) is a great way of testing the | |
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