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Ha! The DSK Law & Order Episode Was “Quite Annoying” To Write


We watched dutifully all summer as the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal raged on. So did the writers of Law & Order: SVU! Strauss-Kahn’s drama had all the proper fixings for an episode of the New York City-based crime show: a high-profile defendant, a plaintiff with a complicated past, a sex scandal, expensive Manhattan real estate and overbearing press coverage. But for writers on the show, the ever-changing case turned out to be a headache.

As fellow scribes who spent the summer writing about the situation: we understand. The constant twists and turns in the case left our jaws dropped for a good portion of June and July.

“We had to do rewrites. Everything we had in our initial draft [had to be changed],” a writer on the show told the New York Post.

Of course, the episode will be a fictionalized, albeit thinly veiled version of the story, since the conclusion of the real-life saga probably wasn’t quite dramatic enough for TV. And, in the TV version, Strauss-Kahn will be re-imagined as an Italian dignitary. We hope they name him Dominico!

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  • Davidfordham65

    He can’t fool me or the rest of the world.   Does he think we are all stupid?

  • Dl17858

    I am outraged that you can take recent events as templates for your show and call yourself writers. All you did was change the names add more misinformation that you could feed the public who are too myopic to question anything they see onTV. You made it seem like Levi-Strauss was OJ and that his accuser was a powerless young single mom. You also made it seem as if Strauss or his italian double was a cave man (which plays right in to what Americans think of the French and the Italians). Strauss is an admitted  womanizer, and at least he is honest about that -unlike most of thefamily values  politicians who are so god-fearing. But to set things straight, his acuser was aware of what she was doing. There is a list of VIPs in the hotel, she was not assigned to clean his room, even if she had been,  the maids are to go in pairs and wait until the guest has checked out. However, she asked to clean his room, went there out of uniform and alone, and told her pimp boyfriend who was in Jail that she was on to something big. It is evident that he mad a very wrong move and so did she. The saddest thing is that the IMF lost one of the most brilliant economist who could help the crisis that the world is facing. The happiest are his political rivals in France who have rid themselves on of the most viable next French President.                                                Shame on you for your lack of originality and bigotry!   Oh and David, I think you are all stupid.

  • Davidfordham65

    Seems you know everything and were on the scene at the time!!!    The truth will come out in the end, and I think we all know what that is.   And, don’t be under any illusions, there are others who are “Brilliant economists” who would do the same job.    No? just wait and see.   You will eat your words.
    Oh, sorry, I forgot to apologise about being “Myopic”.  

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