Laurence Fishburne joining "CSI" cast

LOS ANGELES () - Stage and screen principal Laurence Fishburne's last turn as a series regular on network television was the theatrical role of Cowboy Curtis on the 1980s kids demonstrate "Pee-wee's Playhouse."

So the acclaimed actor better known for playing dark, brooding characters says he looks forward to his unexampled TV gig as a forensics research worker with distressing tendencies on the remove CBS detective drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."

Not that he had of all time seen the series earlier his first meeting with the show's executive producers, Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar.

"I felt a little unintelligent and abashed that I hadn't watched the show prior to having a meeting with them," Fishburne, 47, acknowledged in a conference call with reporters for the announcement that he is joining the show's contrive.

"But I'm happy to say that the episodes that they sent me to look at were actually, really piquant and in truth wonderful, and kind of dark and moody, wish a lot of the work that I've actually been involved in," he added. "So I'm very excited."

Famed for his pic work as Morpheus in "The Matrix" trilogy and his Oscar-nominated role as Ike Turner in "What's Love Got to Do With It," Fishburne is slated to make his "CSI" debut in episode nine of the show's upcoming one-ninth season.

"CSI," which averaged 17 million viewers last season, ranks as CBS's top-rated show and the third gear most-watched scripted series in all of U.S. premier time.

Mendelsohn and Shankar hailed Fishburne as their "dream" casting option.�

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Swing Vote

Swing Vote arrives during one election cycle only heavily references another, spinning the suspension chad scandal of the 2000 presidential race into a formulaic feel-empowered comedy for today's huddled masses.


Bud (Kevin Costner) and Molly Johnson (talented newcomer Madeline Carroll) take Hollywood's schoolbook father-daughter duette: she's the pint-sized "adult" of the trailer they call home, and he's the whiney child. On the evening of a tight presidential race, a mix-up at the polls negates Bud's ballot, which doesn't sound like a big deal until it's determined that the election will hail down to a pic finish distinct by one vote -- Bud's. If you think that's even remotely possible, by all means, read on. As Bud gets a crash course in democracy from smarty-pants Molly, incumbent president of the United States Andrew Boone (Kelsey Grammer) and left-leaning White House hopeful Donald Greenleaf descend on Texico, New Mexico with glad-handlers in tow in hopes of fetching the slob's valuable support.


When I tell you Swing Vote hammers us over the header with its message, I couldn't be more literal. Costner's Bud stumbles out of a bar in one special scene and clunks his skull on a sign that reads "Vote today!" The fact that the same sign remains outside the tap house weeks afterwards puzzled me, but Swing isn't the kind of a celluloid that concerns itself with details.


Writer/director Joshua Michael Stern sets his phasers to "crowd pleaser." Corn-fed classical rock staples fill his soundtrack, spell scenes end predictably on the back-beats of forced one-liners. Costner can do the lovable loser in his slumber. He makes a nice team with Carroll, though they play the odd-couple tune until the guitar strings snap. The comportment of reliable supporting cast members -- Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, George Lopez, and Judge Reinhold -- lulls us into a false sense of comedic security. But aside from a few inspired military campaign advertisements created in reaction to Bud's wacky opinions, this screenplay is light on laughs (and overly scared to declare its own opinions on crucial matters, correct down to its abrupt non-ending).


Speaking of scared, deplumate back the studio glossary and you'll reveal a terrifying message. Swing Vote spends two hours demeaning the bushwhacker cowpokes of flyover res publica, then reminds us just how potent they canful be in a cosmopolitan election. Now that's shivery. Is it too late to change "We the people" to "We the people world Health Organization somehow are deemed fit?"




SPOILER: He votes for Nader.

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