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As David Caruso savors the global success of CSI: Miami, the former star of NYPD Blue won't forget the lessons he's learned, or the cigars he loves.

Depending on the language, the culture and the particular time in history, the story of a great winged bird being consumed by fire and then rising from the ashes—sometimes larger, grander and more glorious than before—may differ in name, but the lesson or moral is the same: out of death comes rebirth; out of ashes and rubble, a grand rebuilding. The early Egyptians called this creature Bennu. In Russian folklore it's Zhar-Ptitsa, the firebird. And the early Greeks called the creature by its more familiar name, the phoenix. Today, in Hollywood, it's called David Caruso.

Numbers matter in Hollywood but even Tinseltown's most talented screenwriters would have a hard time coming up with a more compelling "phoenix from the ashes" story than that of actor David Caruso. His staggering success on "CSI Miami" eclipses nearly any rebirth-and-success script that Hollywood could possibly produce.

Each week, an estimated 50 million viewers around the world tune in to catch Caruso—as dedicated crime scene investigator Lieutenant Horatio Caine—and the rest of the "CSI: Miami" cast fight terrorists, snatch potential tsunami victims out of harm's way and catch (or kill) drug lords, murderers and kidnappers through their work on the street and in the forensics lab. That the show is so spectacularly successful around the world should come as no surprise; "CSI: Miami" is, after all, the 2002 spin-off of the then-two-year-old, No. 1 drama series on television, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."

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(This is perhaps the best, most comprehensive interview with David that is available in print.)

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Buffalo News

CSI: Miami makes up for lost time

By Kate O'Hare ZAP2IT

March 21, 2008

In a normal year, producing a full order of TV episodes has the feel of a marathon. This season, with the enforced three-month- plus idleness of the recently settled Writers Guild of America strike, it’s more like a 10K followed by an all-out sprint to the finish.

It’s Feb. 25, in Manhattan Beach, Calif., on the first day back at work for the cast and crew of CBS’ forensic drama “CSI: Miami,” which will return to the schedule with new episodes starting at 10 p.m. Monday — making it the first of the prime-time network dramas to do so...

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TV Guide

From the March 31-April 13 Double Issue of TV Guide.

Reporting back to the crime scene after their break was no challenge for the cast of CSI: Miami. "It was like getting back on a bicycle," says executive producer Ann Donahue. "Everybody was so eager after such a long time off." It is no wonder they're so excited, considering the ride they're about to take.

Manipulative Julia (Elizabeth Berkley) returns in a special two-parter (airing 3/31 and 4/1) that lands Horatio Caine (David Caruso) in deep trouble. 'She is a master seductress," Caruso says about the mother of H's son, kyle. And we'll find out there's someone pulling her strings. "She has a partner, and he is more dangerous than she is," Caruso adds. "So she has to turn to Horatio, the one person who is after her."

H gets closer to the truth behind Kyle's mistrial (did Julia kidnap the only witness and push her car into the Everglades?). So Julia has Horatio extradited to Brazil on a murder charge from last season, when he and Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez) tracked down the killer of H's wife.

While Horatio ends up with guns pointed at him, Calleigh Duquesne (Emily Procter) is cyberstalked. Someone points her mistakes on a Web site called Solve a Crime With Calleigh, and things get out of hand when she's abducted by two guys who want her to cover up a murder. "Calleigh will be waking up in a basement somewhere," Donahue says. The intrigue doesn't end there. The season also includes a To Catch a Predator-inspired episode.

With the cast and crew putting in six-day weeks, fans will receive their full dose of Miami's finest--21 episodes by the end of the season, promises Donahue,"and the three lost from the strike, we'll make up next year." But what makes her happiest of all: "There's nothing better than seeing Horatio back with the team." We couldn't agree more!

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Source: TV Guide

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