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Peter Berg, on the set of 'Hancock,' looks to director Michael Mann as a role model.

MARK HARMON stars on CBS' 'NCIS' -- the two-hour Season 5 finale airs on Tuesday night. via Los Angeles Times

Jimmy Palmer becomes the target of a killer who only he can recognize. Pre-Season Finale Episode Airs Tonight on 'NCIS' Tuesday, May 13, 2008 It's the second-to-the-last broadcast this season for Mark Harmon ... via BuddyTV

An open letter to SAG president Alan Rosenberg and executive director Doug Allen. via Hollywood Reporter

“The voice I chose for Dr. Octopus was something of an homage to Laird Cregar , one of Hollywood's greatest 'heavies,' and I do mean 'heavies,' ”

For a great selection of superhero and pop culture apparel, check out TShirtGurus.com and 80sTees.com . Peter MacNicol is a very busy man these days. via Superhero Times

“Monk will always need a therapist - and it's a part that is pivotal to the central themes of the show”

R. Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 4/30/2008 3:50:00 PM Veteran Emmy Award-winning actor Hector Elizondo will play the shrink to Tony Shalhoub's obsessive-compulsive detective character when USA Network's ... via Multichannel News

Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin will rule over a brave new world in September, when Classic Stage Company conjures The Tempest , launching the 2008-09 season of the Off-Broadway troupe. via Playbill

NCIS Let's be careful out there, folks. Two members of the NCIS team are sent to Iraq when the site of a mortar attack in the capital becomes a murder scene. via WFAA-TV Dallas

The magic of veteran actor and timeless heartthrob Mark Harmon continues to cast a spell of near-invincibility to NCIS . via BuddyTV

“There's no theme to the show, just groupings of songs that include my prayer that this war, and all wars, will be over”

Ask Broadway legend and television star Mandy Patinkin what he has on his iPod these days and he reels off the list in record time: "I've got all of Tom Waits' songs. via Chicago Sun-Times

“Rounders", a play by Neil LaBute, at the Sundance Playwrights Lab 1990 Feature acting debut, "Spontaneous Combustion”

This pretty, dark-haired actress found her breakthrough role as a hearing-impaired secretary who unwittingly becomes the pawn of two ruthless businessmen in Neil LaBute's acclaimed independent feature "In the ... via Hollywood.com

Emmy-award winning actress Christine Lahti will campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton at 11 a.m. today at the Country Diner at 520 E. Market St. via Akron Beacon Journal

Mandy Patinkin, one of Broadway's master songmen, will showcase his musical talents at a 7:30 p.m. concert tonight at the Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. via Democrat & Chronicle

“It's what I love to do more than anything in the world”

Mandy Patinkin performs "Finishing the Hat" in Sunday in the Park with George "I have acquired a taste for Patinkin verging on addiction," Clive Barnes wrote in the New York Post in 2001. via The Jewish Journal

The writer's strike is slowly killing me. My favorite shows are off the air. I've started TiVoing Animal Planet shows because I refuse to watch "Dance War: Bruno vs. via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

“In their new Lipitor ad campaign Pfizer followed the trend of using a doctor. In fact, Pfizer decided to find a real doctor known for his heart expertise. His name is Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart.”

Lately, I've been seeing a lot more of those Dr. Jarvik Lipitor ads on TV and in magazines. via Pharma Marketing Blog

If it's Thursday, this must be the mailbag . . . Q: One of my favorite TV shows is ''Journeyman.'' I never miss a single show. via Akron Beacon Journal

“He was a guy that was seduced by his own ability to play with numbers and play with money.”

Everyone wants to stick it to the man. Everyone wants the chance to one-up the government and get away with it. via Columbia Spectator

“Sometimes he was the strongest, proudest man in the world -- and sometimes he was very much like a little child, and you almost got the sense you had to take care of him.”

Switching stars on a hit series can be tricky, but it looks like 'Criminal Minds' has managed to pull it off. via The Courier-Journal