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At Risk & The Front Win Garano's Movies, Not Kay Scarpetta, but Definitely Patricia Cornwell

So, while I was checking out when the next Jesse Stone movie would air, I came across some more information that should be interesting to all of us mystery book lovers. Patricia Cornwell‘s Win Garano Mystery Series will be featured on the Lifetime channel.

At Risk (Saturday, April 10) and The Front (Saturday, April 17) will be made-for-television movies starring Andie MacDowell (as Monique “Money” Lamont) and Daniel Sunjata (as Win Garano).

I am sure that most of you know that Patricia Cornwell is a New York Times bestselling author. It surprised me to find out that Cornwell’s Win Garano mystery series is the one that was selected to be filmed. I would have guessed that Cornwell’s wildly popular Kay Scarpetta mystery series would have been the chosen one to film. 

I’m glad to see that the Lifetime channel is bringing us movies by more and more of our mystery authors. Recently they aired some of Ann Rule‘s true crime books, and now this.

Bravo for Lifetime!

No Remorse & Blue Bloods (formerly slated as Reagan's Law) … Two Tom Selleck Police Procedurals on the Horizon

Great news for all of you Jesse Stone fans. Another Robert  B. Parker movie will be broadcast some time soon. No Remorse will air on May 9, 2010. (Of course, since I don’t work for the network, I am getting this date from the Google-ing I did this afternoon. If anyone else has another date, please let us know.) I have already programmed the movie’s title, Tom Selleck, and Jesse Stone on my Replay machine… so I should know the exact date as soon as it pops up on one of my searches.

I am really looking forward to No Remorse, as I have enjoyed all of the other Jesse Stone movies. And, of course, Tom Selleck in no way makes it difficult to watch! And, I absolutely LOVE Jeff Beal‘s haunting musical score. (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!)  Seeing Kathy Baker & William Devane are added bonuses for me.

So, here’s what I found out while searching around for No Remorse >>>

There’s more good news in store for us! CBS is filming a pilot (currently called Blue Bloods >>> formerly called Reagan’s Law) which will be a police procedural starring Tom Selleck as NYPD’s chief of police, whose son (played by Donnie Wahlberg) is a detective. Len Cariou plays Selleck’s father, who was also a policeman, but who is now working for the mayor. Got the picture? A family of generation-after-generation of police officers! Some of you may remember Len Cairou as the man on the Murder, She Wrote TV show who seemed the most likely to have a romantic relationship with Jessica. (Boy, did I ever side-track on that!)

Anyway, it looks like there are some good things in store for all of us mystery lovers out there. Let’s just hope the networks air these shows… and don’t decide that what we really need is YET ONE MORE REALITY SHOW!!!

* * * * *This is not an April Fool’s gag…* * * * *

Spring Break… Activity Time for Even the Adults!

My daughter came home a couple of weeks ago for her spring break. Boy was I glad she was home! My son lives right here in San Antonio, so this was a wonderful family time for the four of us… plus Sprite, makes five!

Unfortunately, now that she lives in Massachusetts, it takes her a whole day to travel to and from school, which of course shaves off two days of her week long break. That’s the breaks! (As “they” say… although I am so “out of it,” I’m not sure “they” still say that!)

My daughter is the designated family member to get us out of the house, enjoying things that San Antonio has to offer. Of course, since she was home for such a short time, that meant one day out. And, of course, with Sprite being so old, that day is shortened to (at the most!) a five hour window of time that we can be away from the house.

I should clarify that we do go out other times, but what I mean by a “day out,” is doing an activity that we enjoyed doing when both of our children were growing up… You know the type… the zoo, museums, caverns, ETC… the types of things that tourists do when they come here.

Unfortunately, her spring break coincided with the spring break of at least the largest school district here in San Antonio… which meant that there were LOTS of people doing the same thing.

We visited a wildlife ranch… which turned out to be… I would guess by the crowds… the most visited place on the day that we chose to go. WOW!!! LOTS of people. LOTS of cars. And, LOTS of animals who had been so over-fed by all of the people in all of the cars, that we were only able to see the few of them who were napping under the closer trees.

The “moral” of this story is: So what if the actual activity turns out to be a bust? What’s important is the time spent with each other… even though a lot of that time was spent (by at least one member>>> who was more than likely me!) complaining about all of the people, all of the cars, and all of the missing animals who were in the clumps of trees taking their siestas.

How about you all? Have any of you been enjoying Spring Break?

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