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Today was the first of the two live chat sessions with stars from CSI shows. This one was with CSI: NY hottie Hill Harper.

I have re-ordered the messages so that they are in the correct order to read and make sense. (You know how chats can be rather disjointed and the answers don’t follow right after the proper questions so it can be confusing to read.)

Hill seems like he has a wonderful sense of humor and I love the so-called “spoilers” he gives us. LOL! I think you’ll enjoy the chat:

Hill Harper: Hello everyone! It’s Hill! Let’s get it started!

Sarah: Hi Hill! How fun was it working with Laurence Fishburne during the crossover?

Hill Harper: I didn’t have a ton of scenes with Lawrence on the shows, but I have known him for years. Love and respect him and think he is one of our greatest actors. And I love the fact that he brought his presence and class to all 3 CSI shows!

M: Do you prefer filming in the studio in LA or being on location in NYC?

Hill Harper: I much prefer being on location in NYC! …C’mon…it’s the big apple!! You can’t beat that!!

Gavic: What was the scariest moment for you on the show and how did you ease the tension from it?

Hill Harper: Scariest moment while acting was last week’s episiode when the girl pops out of the water. Even in real life, even though we were just acting…that was super scary.

Hill Harper: I did visit the body farm in TN where they have 184 real dead bodies in different degrees of decomposition…and that was very interesting. AND a big creepy!

Hill Harper: Hi Greece! Brazil! Germany! Hungray! Isn’t technology awesome that we can all be connected???!

Darren: Hill you’ve accomplished so much already with being an actor, writer and your role in politics. How do you manage to find all the time to do everything and were these things that you’ve always wanted to do or did you fall into these roles?

Hill Harper: I really believe in following your heart. And if your heart tells you to do something, don;t listen to the voices in your head that say “Theres not enough time” or “you cant do it ” or “it wont work”…just say “YES!!” to living and life…and take risks…and let the universe hear your voice!

Karyn: Hill, what do you enjoy more; acting or writing?

Hill Harper: Hi Karyn…ACTING, no doubt. I am an actor first and foremost. I love acting.

Robin (from Holland): Hey Hill. Do you ever feel the desire to practice your law degree?

Hill Harper: I use my law degree – i think – every day. Not traditionally, of course, but it’s part of who I am. Education and learning of any type, i believe, makes you a better critical thinker.

Caroline from Germany: Have you ever done screen-writing / would you like to do it?

Hill Harper: I’ve never written a screenplay…I’m not sure! I think that there are some great screenwriters out there….so I leave it to them. BUT I HAVE BIG NEWS THAT MIGHT BE A SECRET……..

Hill Harper: And that is…..that Carmine [Gioviazzo, who plays Danny Messer] is writing a script for CSI:NY!! And it is going to be AWESOME. But…you didn’t hear that from me!!!! (shhh)

Hill Harper: …and yes, you guys, I hope that Hawkes gets a love interest soon…..
Who do you guys think it should be????

Talia: Hm… Haylen?

Olivia: Yes, Bring Kara back!

Sophia: Someone from outside maybe?

Amanda: Stacy Dash

Jessye James: Nia Long or Zoe Saldana

Olivia: Kara!

Sarah: Hey Hill, I love CSI New York. My question to you is: What was your favourite episode you enjoyed filming?

Hill Harper: As for my fav. episode…WOW That is tough.One thing I can say about our show is that our writers are the best and theyve written to many great story l ines. but one of my favorites is when my old buddy from school wanted me to get info from him off the flash drive…and then he had me beaten up! I like that episode.

Ashela: Hi Hill, I love your work. What is the best thing about acting?

Hill Harper: The best thing about acting is that you have the opportunity to play characters that can uplift, inspire, entertain, educate, enlighten, and connect with the audience….also, it is fun to be different people.

Talia: I love that episode! Sex, Lies and Silicone, right?

Remy: that would be sex, lies and silicone

Hill Harper: YES! Sex, Lies and SIlicone…all about the dolls, baby

Kristal: I have read your three books and I have learned from them. Do you have any ideas for your fourth book?

Hill Harper: No idea for my fourth book….what should I do a book on? Any ideas???

Jimmy Rice: Letters to the Single Brothers

Justine: A book about the cast of CSI NY? Lol

Carolyn: your experience on CSI: NY

kristen smith: 4th book: being the best YOU you can possibly be!!

Aja: Conversations about overcoming hardship for young adults

Vida: I would love a book about how people can give back to low income communities

Kyle: Hey Hill. What advice would you give to an aspiring actor?

Hill Harper: Study the craft. Take as many classes as possible. Act all the time. Even if it is in a local play or student film or your own project. Don;t wait on someone else to hire you. Create your own opportunituies. But you have to really become skilled at the CRAFT of ACTING. And dont fall into the trap of waiting to be “discovered”.

nessie682: Who’s your role model?

Hill Harper: My role models are: my grandparents, my mother and father, Paul Robeson, Merryll Streep, Tom Hanks, Marian Wright Edelman, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs…

Hill Harper: …President Obama….

Olivia: can you give us any spoliers about the upcoming season?

Hill Harper: YES!

Hill Harper: People will die and we will use science to catch their killers!!!!

Tara: LOL!!!

Kate: Nice spoiler

Justine: LOL ! And about characters?

ash_ny: yes spoilers about characters? please !!!

Hill Harper: OK. SPOILER: Hawkes WILL have a love interest.

kristen smith: yaahhhhhhhh finally

Jessica: YAY! Finally! it’s about time he got some love.

Nera: That’s about time!

JoeyDC: Yay, finally! It’s about time

Tisha Owes: when is your next book signing, hope its in atl

Hill Harper: I’ll be back in ATL on 11/20! …signing books/live on V103 all morning at Justin’s Restaurant

Nikki: Glad to hear you are coming to the ATL!

Robin (from Holland): What has been your most memorable moment on CSI NY?

Hill Harper: Most memorable moment….there’s been lots! Learning to scuba dive, riding my bike through central park….the first scenes with Gary when I was Dr. Hawkes the coroner….the interaction with the rest of the cast….we all really get along with each other really well and we have a great chemistry and I think that that comes through on the screen. when you see us interrelate, that is real. Which is rare…sometimes there are bad apples in the bunch….but on our show, wee are so lucky that we all like each other…and we are all good people

Amie: I love the episode when you scuba dived

Talia: The scuba diving scene was so scary!

JoeyDC: Yes you can definitely tell that you guys all get along just fine and that’s what makes you guys such a perfect cast! Can’t get enough of you guys!

Joanna Tuckett: Hey Hill, Who is the clown of the CSI: NY crew?

Hill Harper: Carmine is definitely the funniest of everybody. He comes up with sayings…his Christopher Walken impression is impeccable….he is just FUNNY. He is also funny looking. Haha.

Amy (from Puerto Rico): Yes, Carmine seems really funny. I would love to meet him.

Jillonne from Florida: Hi Hill, from Largo here. I was wondering if you plan to produce or direct any future CSi NY episodes?

Hill Harper: Hi Jilonne. Obviously, I would love to be just like Gary and be a producer on the show. But I don’t think that’s going to happen! But you never know. ….I would love to direct an episode. In fact, I asked about it….we’ll see!

Talia: That would be exciting! I’d love to see an episode directed by you!

Sydney: good luck. I hope you get the opportunity!

Vida: Hey Hill, I’ve seen you on programs discussing hip hop. Who are some of your favorite Hip Hop artists?

Hill Harper: Fav hip hop artists: PublicEnemy, EPMD, Jay Z, Nas…

Hill Harper: I like all forms of music. In fact, I like all forms of art and creativity.

Sandra: What part of Sheldon is definitely Hill and what is absolutely not?

Hill Harper: The part of Sheldon that is Hill is the part that you like..and the part that you don’t like..definitely not me.

Talia: haha Well said

ash_ny: LOL

Amy (from Puerto Rico): Hahahaha Good one!

giorgia e frakkio: lol

speakyoursuccess: Hello Hill What role would be your dream role?

Hill Harper: Dr. MLK Jr., Bob Marley, and a huge sci-fi/action epic lead role

Zoe: you’re such an inspiration!

Amanda: Hey Hill! What u like to do on ur spare time when ur not busy working?

Hill Harper: Go to the movies…Hiking…great dinners with great wine….art galleries….watch other entertainers perform because it is so inspiring

Sarah: Thanks for stopping by. If you had to pick one word to describe your life, what word would that be?

Hill Harper: BLESSED.

Annie from Holland: beautiful answer!

Talia: That’s so sweet!

Monica: we love you, I’m looking forward to seeing tonights episode

Jessica: What’s your favorite show, apart from CSINY?

Hill Harper: Monday Night Football!

Hill Harper: Hey everybody..Thanks so much for joining me on this chat! You guys are THE MOST IMPORTANT part of my career and our show. BEcause without you the show wouldnt even exist….so THANK YOU for watching and follow me on twitter! twitter.com/hillharper

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Tomorrow CSI: NY star Hill Harper will chat live on TV.com with fans about the trilogy’s second part that airs tomorrow night on CBS. The chat will take place tomorrow, November 11th at 12pm PT and you can go set up a reminder email for yourself here.

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Then on Thursday, November 12th at 11am PT, CSI: Vegas star George Eads will chat live with fans about the third and final part to the trilogy that will air on Thursday night. Be sure to go to the site to set up a reminder email for yourself too.

Be sure to join the chat! It’s a big chance to talk to two of the CSI stars…and both of them are fan favorites!

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First of all, I had not heard this rumor. I would have probably freaked out if I had in light of all the cast members who have left the other two CSI series in the past couple of seasons. I really like Melina Kanakaredes and hope she stays on CSI: NY until it completely ends.

That being said, here’s the latest rumor, and the truth:

Question: There’s a rumor going around that Melina Kanakaredes is getting killed off CSI: NY in the very near future. True? —Jess

Ausiello: False. My NY mole tells me that Melina will be around all season. [Source: EW]

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CSI: Miami – Episode 8.07 – Bone Voyage
Air Date: November 9, 2009

Episode 6.07: Hammer Down
Air Date: November 11, 2009

CSI: Vegas – Episode 10.07 – The Lost Girls
Air Date: November 12, 2009

I am getting so excited about next week’s three-part, all-CSI crossover event! First of all, I’ve been a Laurence Fishburne fan for many years and love him on CSI: Vegas. But now we’ll get to see his character on all three CSI series in one week! That’s insanely cool!

In this clip, we see Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso & Gary Sinise, the three male CSI series leads talk about the crossover mystery. Some of the other cast members weigh in on how much fun it was to work together with someone from the other series. Check this out:

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Episode 6.06: It Happened to Me
Air Date: November 4, 2009

This is a preview clip for this week’s episode of CSI: NY. In this one, it looks like Hawkes is going to have a mystery to solve involving a person he treated during his volunteer time.

This clip gives some of the info about the case, but not enough to let us in on much. But since I’m such a fan of Hill Harper, this is one episode that I’m especially looking forward to.

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Episode 6.01: Epilogue
Air Date: September 23, 2009

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• The season 6 season premiere of CSI: NY began with a review of the final scene in season 5. The CSIs were having a toast to Jessica Angell, who had been killed. Just then, a car drove by and sent a shower of machine gun bullets through the group as they all hit the floor.
• A month later, we see Mac in the office, going over evidence, Flack with a pretty new girl and Stella getting dressed while an undressed Adam watches from the bed. [Wow! I didn’t see that coming!]
• Mac gets a phone call and joins Danny (in a wheelchair) at a dark room with very large crystal chandeliers. Soon, a woman joins them. She tells them that her brother is just a scared kid caught up with two others in something. They try to get her to tell them what she knows.
• Just then, the elevator doors open and a man in the shadows fires a machine gun at them. They all hit the floor. Danny pulls himself to help the injured woman as Mac goes after the gunman. She dies before she can tell them anything. The gunman gets away.
• When Stella & Hawkes show up at the scene, Danny fills them in. the only thing they learned from the woman was a name…Jake.
• Flack shows up, just back from a leave of absence and says he’s going to help. He and Mac go over security camera footage…no camera in the elevator.
• At the crime scene, Danny flashes back to the night of the bar shooting. Lindsay reminds him that there’s no permanent damage to his spine. He may regain the use of his legs eventually. He’s not so optimistic.
• At the office, Stella scolds Mac for taking Danny and going without backup to talk to the woman. He quotes Shakespeare: “Tempt not a desperate man.”
• Another phone call and Mac tells Stella that it’s happened again.
• The team arrives at the scene where a car drove past a large group of people waiting to get into a club. A car had driven by and fired a machine gun at the crowd. Everyone looks up at a large lighted billboard that reads, “Do we have your attention? Pay us and we’ll stop.”
• A reporter at the scene had tipped them to another similar shooting at a closed restaurant two weeks before. The team goes over everything so far and determines that the shootings are not targeting cops, not with the intent to kill because there had only been one fatality and one of the locations was closed. They want to scare people.
• Just then, a clean-up crime scene technician tells the CSIs that she found an unreported bloody fingerprint on the ceiling of the elevator at the crime office building. Adam gets defensive because he says that he checked everything.
• They realize that Mac must have injured the gunman and that now they may have DNA to identify him.
• Haylen, the cleanup tech tells Adam that she wants to work in the lab and he tells her that the job she’s after is his, so he won’t help her.
• Sid pulled a piece of tempered glass from the woman’s shoulder that Hawkes examined and found that it put her in the bar, the night of the shooting when they were all there.
• Flack shows Stella the body of the missing security guard from the night in the office building. They look at the blood trail to see that the killer tracked the guard there and killed him. The killer was also wounded and took the guard’s sleeve to bandage the wound.
• At the lab, they determine that the woman had worked in the building, so they got copies of the voicemail greetings to compare to the tip line for identification.
• The blood from the elevator matched the blood on the front of the dead guard’s shirt and Hawkes’ investigation told them that the guard had stabbed the killer with the same knife that killed him. They had an identification of the killer.
• The voice recognition software helped them identify the woman as Risa Calaveras. That means that her brother must be Jake Calaveras.
• Stella tells Mac that the shooter was dumped at the hospital and died soon after. They decide to study the hospital security camera footage. They got a license plate number and a suspect’s identity.
• They show up at the suspect’s apartment in time to see Jake Calaveras pointing a gun at him for killing his sister. They tell him that he shouldn’t shoot him and they will take care of him. Jake tells them it’s too late and shoots the other man. They take him into custody.
• In the interrogation room, Jake explained to Mac that the other two had wanted to get the city to “work for them.” He said that Risa had talked him out of going with them the night of the bar shooting. He didn’t know she had been there to try to stop him.
• Adam caught up to Stella in the office to talk about the night they were together. She blurted out that it had been wonderful and stupid and memorable and something they should never do again. He acted relived and agreed with her.
• The episode ended with Stella helping Mac pack up the case files, Lindsay holding her baby and Danny in the wheelchair trying to move his legs. Suddenly, one of his feet barely moved. He looked up and smiled.

Discussion Points:

1. What do you think of the hookup between Stella & Adam? Did you see it coming?
2. I really liked how supportive and optimistic Lindsay was about Danny’s injury. What are your thoughts about them?
3. What was your opinion of this episode? Was it a satisfying result after the shooting and the cliffhanger?
4. Do you like the new character, Haylen?

Leave a comment to share your thoughts about it!

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Everyone, please join with me in sending birthday wishes to CSI: NY star Robert Joy. Robert plays the medical examiner, Dr. Sid Hammerback on the show. Today is his 58th birthday.

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Episode 6.02: Blacklist Featuring Grave Digger
Air Date: TBD

After we finally get to see the aftermath of the season 5 cliffhanger, the second episode of CSI: NY will give us even more to enjoy. In that episode, Mac has something more from his family’s past come back to haunt him and the team. These photos from the episode look like the team is going to be very serious about solving this one!

When Det. Stella Bonasera, (Melina Kanakaredes), and Det. Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) investigate a case of a cyber killer, it turns personal when the suspect invokes the name of Mac’s father who had died nearly two decades earlier
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