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“CSI” secrets and Rachael Ray’s new talker
In the May cliffhanger for CBS’ “CSI,” Capt. Brass was lying in a hospital bed, recovering from a barrage of gunshot wounds, and Grissom and Sara were in an off-job situation hinting that they’ve been romantic for quite some time.
Surprise! This hinted-at relationship between Griss and Sara will heat up next season. And of course Brass will survive, but the romance is a hotter topic as the show heads toward its Thursday showdown with ABC’s super-hot “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Jorja Fox declined to “kiss and tell,” but creative producer Carol Mendelsohn said fans will learn the juicy details about this twosome soon. First, that their Vegas relationship precedes Vegas and actually started when they both lived and worked in San Francisco. Second, that their “CSI” colleagues will be in the dark about the twosome.
Perhaps oddly, Fox said the intensely personal scenes, dropped into the middle of a case-focused procedural drama, can be nerve-wracking to play.
“There’s a certain calm and peace in doing a procedural,” she said. “These personal snapshots are exciting and terrifying. There’s safety in sticking with the fiber and flies.”
Rachael Ray at the range …
Touting her new fall syndicated daytime talk show, Rachael Ray decided the food in the luxury hotel here just wasn’t comforting enough for the nation’s TV press corps, so she whipped up hundreds of miniburgers — beef, turkey and veggie.
“Let’s go to the ballroom and have burgers,” Ray announced after she quipped and guffawed her way through an hour-long lovefest with reporters. “We can keep talking, but I need a snack.”
How does this bundle of energy manage to write more than a dozen cookbooks, host several TV shows on the Food Network, keep a whirlwind speaking tour AND launch a new daytime talker?
“Starbucks,” she snorted. “It helps me find a lot of time, and you just reorganize.”
Ray insists her show won’t be a sit-on-the-couch-and-tell-me-your-woes show.
“Nobody would take me seriously,” she howled. “I mean, I’m a bobblehead! There’s going to be nothing serious going on.”
Plus, she says her No. 1 rule is “no crying … and no finger-wagging. I don’t like a lot if experts.”
Oprah Winfrey is backing Ray’s show, which means it has deep pockets. But what will make it succeed is Ray’s down-to-earth, food-oriented, kitchen-chatter approach to life.
“I’m probably the only show in daytime that has a driveway and a garage,” she chuckled. “I’m pretty proud of that.”
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