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‘Law & Order: SVU’ showrunner accused of bullying, sexual harassment

 

According to a Los Angeles Times report, David Graziano, who stepped in as “SVU” showrunner in June, has been accused of mistreating script coordinator Haley Cameron, leading her to quit the series. 

“David Graziano is a very unprofessional, ego-centric, and immature man. I have been in this industry a long time, and I have never experienced such pure, white-male misogyny,” said Cameron, in a post on a listserv circulated among script coordinators.

Graziano’s spokesperson, Alafair Hall, denied Cameron’s claims in a statement to the Times.

“The implication that Mr. Graziano created a hostile work environment, or is sexist, inappropriate and unprofessional is false,” she said.

This isn’t first time the showrunner been accused of bad workplace behavior, ranging from alleged bullying to sexual harassment. A trail of complaints follows Graziano almost as far back as his résumé, including previous workplaces such as USA Network’s “In Plain Sight,” Fox’s “Lie to Me” and CBS All Access’ “Coyote.”

https://nypost.com/2022/12/08/law-order-svu-showrunner-accused-of-bullying-sex-harassment/

Philadelphia’s ‘Boy in the Box’ identified 66 years later

https://nypost.com/2022/12/08/philadelphia-boy-in-the-box-identified-as-joseph-august-zarelli/

 

The 4-year-old had been wrapped in a blanket and placed inside a large JCPenney bassinet box. He was severely malnourished and had been beaten to death, police said.

“When people think about the boy in the box, a profound sadness is felt, not just because a child was murdered, but because his entire identity and his rightful claim to own his existence was taken away,” Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.  Really?!?, @WilliamM, your police commissioner's name is OUTLAW?!?!

His remains rest at Ivy Hill Cemetery with a headstone identifying him as “America’s Unknown Child” — but will soon be rectified to add the boy’s name — Joseph August Zarelli.

Police said that both of Joseph’s parents have died, but that he has siblings who are still alive.

Recap / Law And Order SVU S7E7 Name

Written By Michele Fazekas (see below)

The skeletal remains of a child found in a sand quarry are connected to an unsolved missing persons case from 1978, where four middle school boys disappeared. But when Stabler goes to retrieve the file on the case, he finds that a lab tech, Millie Vizcarrondo (Paula Garces), has already checked it out. At Stabler's prodding, she admits her reasoning; her father spent decades of his life obsessed with another cold case from eight years earlier, in which the body of an unidentified boy was dumped in an alley in a box, and now that he's dead, she's picked up the torch. She had been looking through cases from the same time period with victims fitting the same parameters in hopes of finding a lead.

The episode ends with Millie and Stabler standing at the grave of the still-nameless Boy in the Box. Millie admits to Stabler that she resented the boy because her father seemed to pay more attention to the case than to her. Stabler tells her it's understandable.

"I think someday we will be able to name him. I also think you gotta give yourself a break, Millie. Your father made a decision. He spent his life on a dead child, when he had a living child at home." —Stabler

The camera pans to show the headstone, inscribed with the words "Heavenly Father, Bless This Unknown Boy". Millie and Stabler stand in silence as we fade to black.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E7Name

I wonder if this is a coincidence:

 

"Hubris"
←	L&O, Episode 11.09	→
Production number: E1311 First aired: 10 January 2001

 

Richard Morriston was a career con artist who manipulated, abused, and killed multiple people.

 

Background

Morriston was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and eventually enrolled in the University of Utah Law school. He dropped out in 1994 after he killed his girlfriend Beth Fazekas. 

Edited December 9, 2022 by samhexum
just for the hell of it

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This is a very sad story that somebody is joking about.

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5 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

This is a very sad story that somebody is joking about.

Who was joking?  All of the LAW & ORDERs are known for their 'ripped from the headlines' plots.  I was just showing that one of the sadder ones has been resolved in real life.

Now, as for your police commissioner's hilariously inappropriate name, THAT is a joke.

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42 minutes ago, samhexum said:

Who was joking?  All of the LAW & ORDERs are known for their 'ripped from the headlines' plots.  I was just showing that one of the sadder ones has been resolved in real life.

Now, as for your police commissioner's hilariously inappropriate name, THAT is a joke.

 

 

Her name is hardly a freaking joke

 

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14 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

 

 

Her name is hardly a freaking joke

 

Are you freaking kidding?  Who names their kid Danielle?

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Some SVU trivia...

An actor named Brett Cullen guest starred this week as a judge.

One of Mariska's first roles was as his younger sister in a few episodes of Falcon Crest.  She was a free spirit who drove Jane Wyman's character nuts.

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Because, why the hell not?

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Not overly impressed with the start of season 26 so far.

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Peter Scanavino is terrific tonight.  I am watching live.

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I'm sure you'll all be so excited you can't contain yourselves because Kelli Giddish is returning to SVU full-time next season.

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1 hour ago, samhexum said:

I'm sure you'll all be so excited you can't contain yourselves because Kelli Giddish is returning to SVU full-time next season.

I am so ashamed...  how could I not have said "so GIDDYish"?

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Mariska Hargitay is opening up about a family secret she's kept for more than 30 years.

At the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 13, the Law & Order: SVU actress, 61, revealed with the premiere of her documentary My Mom Jayne that her biological father is not Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her and was castrated in an early episode of SVU, but rather a former Las Vegas entertainer named Nelson Sardelli.

As Mariska explains in the documentary — which marks her feature film directorial debut — she first learned of Sardelli when she was 25. She confronted Mariska, the only father she'd ever known, with the news, and after he insisted he was her father, the two never spoke of it again.

But it left Mariska with many questions, wondering if she was Hungarian like her father and her brothers, Zoltan and Mickey Jr., or if she was really Italian like Sardelli.

The actress opened up further about the revelation about her father in an interview with Vanity Fair. She told the outlet that she went to see Sardelli perform in Atlantic City, N.J., when she was 30 years old, and described his emotional reaction when she introduced herself.

Moved to tears, he said, “I’ve been waiting 30 years for this moment.”

But Mariska said she found herself giving him a tough time and going "full Olivia Benson on him," referring to her SVU character.

“I was like, ‘I don’t want anything, I don’t need anything from you.… I have a dad, ' ” she recalled telling him, explaining, “There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey.”

She told Vanity Fair that after the momentous meeting with Sardelli, she grappled with "knowing I'm living a lie my entire life."

Sardelli, who is still alive and now in his late eighties, participates in the documentary, as do his other two daughters — Mariska's half sisters.

In the film, Mariska explains that, at 61 years old, keeping this a secret was no longer necessary.

Mariska also has an older sister, Jayne Marie Mansfield, from her mother's first marriage, as well as a younger brother, Tony Cimber, from her mother's third marriage, both of whom are also featured in My Mom Jayne.

The actress told Vanity Fair that once she eventually built a bond with Sardelli and his daughters, she better understood that her mother returned to Mickey because she knew he would love and provide a stable home life for Mariska.

“I grew up where I was supposed to, and I do know that everyone made the best choice for me,” she said. “I’m Mickey Hargitay’s daughter — that is not a lie.”

“This documentary is kind of a love letter to him, because there’s no one that I was closer to on this planet," she noted.

Mariska told Vanity Fair that she and her Sardelli sisters gathered together for a private screening of the documentary in Las Vegas, and recalled how they were overcome with emotion.

“They just wept and wept and wept,” she said. “These two women that I love so much — I made them secrets! It’s so heartbreaking to me.”

For Mariska, sharing her story with the world in the documentary was a way to "unburden all of us.”

Following the film's premiere screening at Cannes on Saturday, the audience gave a five-minute standing ovation. Mariska was joined at the event by her husband, Peter Hermann, and three kids.