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  Dick Wolf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard A. ("Dick") Wolf, (born December 20, 1946, New York City), is one of American television’s most respected drama series creators and is an Emmy Award-winning producer.
Wolf is also an Honorary Consul general of Monaco and is actively involved in the principality’s prestigious annual Television Festival, and is its primary liaison with the entertainment community.
Wolf's least favorite of more than 350 episodes, up to this point, is the one in which the daughter of Detective Lennie Briscoe (played by Jerry Orbach) gets killed by a drug dealer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dick_Wolf   (507 words)

  
 Dick Wolf
Wolf spoke to WSN about his new series, Crime & Punishment, and about his distinguished career in television, which spans some 25 years.
WOLF: Just because they are stand-alone episodes that are story driven, not character driven, so if people don't see the show for a while, or they miss an episode, there's no catching up.
WOLF: Drama is conflict and the oldest conflict is life and death, which you get all the time in police and law shows.
www.worldscreen.com /print.php?filename=1002wolf-2.txt   (995 words)

  
 Producing Excellence (An Interview with Dick Wolf)
But the suits and the advertisers and the focus groups were flatly wrong: the show was Law and Order, and Dick Wolf smiles as he tells the story.
Wolf exudes a passion for good television and for people who know how to craft it.
Speaking with Produced by's Ken Ross in Los Angeles, Wolf's arrival and departure were precisely on schedule and his attention to the conversation was undivided.
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 'Law & Order' gets a French accent - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - TV - A&E
Wolf will be involved in the production as an adviser and will travel to Paris several times a year, he said yesterday during the Television Critics Association summer meeting.
Wolf added that he believes this is the first time in television history that a drama currently on the air has been reproduced in another language with different actors.
Wolf said last year the three series generated more than $1 billion in advertising revenue on the three American networks.
www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2005/07/26/law__order_gets_a_french_accent   (406 words)

  
 Florida Guardsman Online - Youth ChalleNGe program director, Dick Wolf, died March 29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wolf, 54, retired from the Florida Army National Guard as a sergeant major in 1997, and was selected as director of the Youth ChalleNGe Academy in 2003.
Wolf, a resident of Starke, Fla., is survived by: his wife Mary Lee, six children including 1st Lt. Richard Wolf of the Florida National Guard Counterdrug Program, and several grandchildren.
Wolf coordinated operations for the initial class and was selected to serve as the program coordinator.
www.floridaguard.net /news/read.asp?did=2911   (668 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Law & Order : Crime Scenes: Books: Dick Wolf,Jessica Burstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wolf, the show's creator, offers a brisk introduction, setting the tone with some revealing background tidbits (e.g., Wolf and his colleagues chose a bifurcated format for the show so it could be syndicated as either a half-hour or full-hour show).
Wolf gives everyone e.g., the police technical consultant, the executive producer, the actor playing a corpse (she was paid $161 for the day's work)a few crisp, concise paragraphs to explain their contributions.
Dick Wolf's very informative photographic essay of the long-running NBC institution is for the fan and non-fan alike.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1402710925?v=glance   (1698 words)

  
 Mr. Cop Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But Wolf's initial premise, in which he set out to mix documentary-style filming with a constant stream of dialogue to tell complex, real-life legal-obsessive stories, meant pushing the envelope of what was accepted on television.
The personal lives of the characters were almost non-existent; traditional camera angles and established shots were gone, and the story was always told from the point of view of the principal four characters: two cops, two lawyers.
Wolf, however, is leery of taking credit for ushering in some kind of cop new age, saying he lets the writers do the grunt work.
www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/tv/MR_COP_SHOW.html   (1581 words)

  
 apocrypha
Wolf had previously been hitched to the studio through early 2003.Wolf said the new deal is similar in scope to his previous arrangement.
Wolf is also developing the reality drama Trial and Error for NBC's midseason schedule.While Wolf said he's kicking around ideas for a fourth edition of Law and Order, nothing is in the works just yet.
Wolf has said that the main reason for the show's success is because "every week you get a totally contained, complete story." And that's true, although the trend in recent seasons has been to add more red herrings to the plots.
www.podengo.com /apocrypha/winter01a/news.html   (1216 words)

  
 Dick Wolf Photos - Dick Wolf News - Dick Wolf Information
Dick Wolf, one of television's most respected drama series creator/producers, is the architect of one of the most successful franchises in the history of television - Law & Order.
Wolf is a close friend of famous crime novelist James Ellroy.
Wolf was an altar boy at St. Patrick's cathedral.
www.tv.com /dick-wolf/person/3723/summary.html   (257 words)

  
 The Spoof - Dick Wolf Indicted on 26 Counts of Conspiracy to Commit Murder.
Murders have been committed on the television show from the very beginning, but nearly all of the perpetrators see justice before the end of the episode, so, under the rules of double jeopardy, law enforcement is usually unable to pursue legal action outside of television.
Wolf seemed distressed at finally being on the other side of a judicial proceeding, but was confident that his long experience would win the day.
Wolf did produce those shows, and did intend that those murders should happen” said his attorney.
www.thespoof.com /news/spoof.cfm?headline=s4i10513   (541 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - Dick Purtan, News Talk
For four decades, Dick Purtan has been a staple of Detroit radio.
At that time, he changed his name to Dick Purtan to avoid confusion with an established member of the staff.
Dick Purtan was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2004.
www.radiohof.org /newstalk/dickpurtan.html   (215 words)

  
 Dick Wolf @ Filmbug
Dick Wolf, one of television's most respected drama series creator/producers, is the architect of one of the most successful brands in the history of television Law & Order.
Wolf serves as creator and executive producer of the four Law & Order drama series from Wolf Films and NBC Universal Television Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the upcoming Law & Order: Trial By Jury, scheduled for later in the 2004-05 season.
Wolf has been a creative force in television for more than 25 years, with an illustrious career as a top advertising executive and continuing as one of television's most prolific producer/writers with such series as L.A. Dragnet, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, New York Undercover, Arrest & Trial, South Beach, Feds and Players.
www.filmbug.com /db/344284   (852 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Branding the franchise — CSI and Law & Order step up the competition this fall
"I think Dick Wolf is one of the greatest producers in the history of network television," said Viacom co-president and co-COO Leslie Moonves, who runs CBS.
Wolf didn't exactly go out of his way to praise the competition, but he did say "CSI: NY" is "absolutely" the strongest competition "Law & Order" has had in its 14 seasons on the air.
Wolf is preparing for the "CSI: NY" onslaught by doing, um, nothing.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595083624,00.html   (1379 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Revising the TV ratings system - July 10, 1997
Dick Wolf is a television producer and creator of several TV series, including "Law and Order" and "New York Undercover." And Eric Mink is television critic for the New York Daily News.
DICK WOLF: Because what you have now is people deciding what is appropriate content; that an age based system is something that the movies have been dealing with for 30 years.
Everybody knows what the parameters are, but even in the same household you are going to have a mother who may see a scene and think that that's gratuitous violence, and a father may see the same scene vis-a-vis his 10 year old and think that that's a perfectly acceptable action sequence.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/ratings_7-10.html   (2127 words)

  
 Dick Wolf's "Law and Order" and Tom DeLay - Page 2 - Sean Hannity Discussion
When Tom DeLay naturally complained about the episode executive producer Dick Wolf used the same lame line from the Dan Quayle/Murphy Brown era, it is only a work of fiction.
It's an Aronofsky film about this mathematical genius who starts to go crazy thinking that the mystery to the entire world can be solved using circles; the end result is that he puts a drill to his head to avoid being a genius, and thus, stop seeing imaginary circles.
Basically what Wolf is really saying here is that you should never criticize judges and the decisions they make because there might be some loony-toon living in a swamp somewhere who might take matters into his own hands.
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=9075&page=2   (1089 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Wolf is ticked off at NBC
PASADENA, Calif. — Dick Wolf is mad, which is hardly news.
Which isn't unusual, given that Wolf has had some huge battles with the network over the years because of how his shows are scheduled.
These days, Reilly and Wolf are members of one big, dysfunctional family — the former works for the broadcast network owned by NBC-Universal; the latter produces shows for the TV production studio owned by NBC-Universal.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635180538,00.html   (545 words)

  
 Teachers@Random Catalog | A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith
One day, Wolf decides to try -- and to his surprise, out of his mouth comes a perfect melody.
It's not long before Wolf is singing everything from "Three Blind Mice" to Chopin to the Beatles, all to Mrs.
Dick King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestshire, England.
www.randomhouse.com /teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375800665   (191 words)

  
 Hot Topics: "Deadline" At The New York Press Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Both Wolf and Platt are protective of the series' lead character, newspaper columnist Wallace Benton, and refuse to be pinned down in detail on exactly what sort of animal he is, at least not now, so early in the run of the series, which premiered in early October.
Wolf is more clear about his vision for the show, which he stresses is "entertainment, not a documentary," with the mandate of keeping at least ten million people tuned in to each episode.
Wolf nonetheless appears determined to place his trademark shine-the-light-on-the-issues touch on "Deadline," with episodes touching on everything from racism and radicals to the strange bedfellows created by today's corporate media conglomerates.
www.newyorkpressclub.org /hottopics.htm   (1129 words)

  
 Dick Wolf, TV producer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wolf recently spoke with Randee Dawn for The Hollywood Reporter about the show's long life.
Dick Wolf: That seemed highly unlikely at the time.
Wolf: The horrible truth is the reason "LandO" was created was that it was the nadir of the hour market.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1899356   (778 words)

  
 Lance Mannion: Playing musical second chairs with Dick Wolf
Dick Wolf describes Parisse's character, Alex Borgia, as being always the smartest person in the room.
No defending Wolf's 11th hour lesbian call - and I don't think a man would be inclined to fire a feminine lesbian anyway - in fact, I think they like them but I'm guessing on the male take of that one.
wolf never would have the guts to run a second chair who looked like, say, kathy bates, linda hunt or rhea perlman -- that is, an actress who isn't babealicious.
lancemannion.typepad.com /lance_mannion/2005/01/new_ada.html   (1524 words)

  
 Extratv.com : Dick Wolf
The jewel in the Dick Wolf crown is his "ripped from the headlines" hit, “Law and Order.”
Next on the docket for Wolf is a remake of the fifties and sixties hit "Dragnet" which he's casting now.
Nobody knows better than Wolf that the best stuff on TV is the kind of stuff you couldn't make up.
extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/05_02/05_10b.html   (363 words)

  
 The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When Dick Wolf, the executive producer and creator of "Law and Order," heard the news, he called Warren Littlefield, then the president of NBC Entertainment, and told him that he should start firing the young stars, one by one.
Most of the time, Wolf didn't want his actors to leave, but he offered them little incentive to stay, because ultimately he didn't need them.
Dick Wolf tossed this rule aside and made "Law and Order" actorproof.
www.newyorker.com /talk/content?020304ta_talk_surowiecki   (898 words)

  
 Dick Wolf on the Key to Law & Order's Success
Dick Wolf, creator and producer of Law & Order, says there's "a secret ingredient" in every episode that keeps his long-running series going strong.
Wolf is just joking, of course, but there really IS an addictive quality to Law & Order.
"The only time the cops on our show have fired their guns," Wolf notes, "was when Epatha Merkerson (who plays Lt. Anita Van Buren) was at the cash machine with her two boys in the car and she shot the kid who was robbing her.
www.tnt.tv /dramalounge/article/0,,5042,00.html   (620 words)

  
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Dick Wolf presented a report from the June 19 meeting of the GGCM Steering Committee that was prepared by its chair, George Siscoe.
They propose to abolish their present two working groups ("Spine" and "Modules") but to keep the present coordinators (Michael Hesse and Dick Wolf) and working group chairs (Joachim Birn, Phil Pritchett, Jimmy Raeder, Frank Toffoletto) as a GGCM Program Committee.
Dick Wolf agreed to draft a statement and circulate it to the Steering Committee before it is sent out to the community.
www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu /gem/committee/scjun201998.txt   (2441 words)

  
 APP.COM - Crime pays big for "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf | Asbury Park Press Online
This may account for why Wolf (at 58 a veteran producer who has weathered his share of flops) takes umbrage at how the network discarded "Trial By Jury" after long benefiting from its three predecessors.
With just a pilot script in hand, NBC has ordered 13 episodes of "Conviction," which Wolf created after finding this statistic: Among the hundreds of prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office, the average age is 28.
Wolf, who sizes up this strategy with a "no comment," might prefer to have "Conviction" in the "Law & Order" fold.
www.app.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051026/ENT/510260409/1031   (877 words)

  
 Dick Wolf's "Law and Order" and Tom DeLay - Page 3 - Sean Hannity Discussion
I also think Dick Wolf had it right when he said that Delay was trying to shift the focus to a hot show rather than on his hot seat.
The original "Dirty Harry" movie with Clint Eastwood took some not too thinly veiled swipes at the liberal court system letting criminals out on the streets on technicalities, and this was in the '70s.
What I find offensive about Dick Wolf is how does he view the First Amendment these days, to wit, in his mind can we EVER criticize judges and their decisions?
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=9075&page=3   (706 words)

  
 FNG - Sergeant Major Richard A. “Dick” Wolf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
SGM Wolf was a professional soldier, an American Patriot, a dedicated husband and father.
Families across this great state are better off today simply because of SGM Wolf’s touch upon their lives.
SGM Wolf leaves a family of patriots that mourn his loss but yet are so very proud of this great American.
www.floridaguard.net /read.asp?did=2913   (168 words)

  
 MediaPost Publications - Dick Wolf Can Solve Crimes--And Count Advertising And License Fee Dollars - 03/20/2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
DICK WOLF KNOWS HIS TV math--and his advertising.
Had Wolf gone on, he would have easily given the reader more details--ones that have to do with advertising.
What Wolf is really worried about is a future 10 years from now, when perhaps those one million downloads will be the only customers for "Housewives"--not the 15 million to 20 million it currently gets per week.
publications.mediapost.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=41192   (768 words)

  
 Conviction - Thief - New York Magazine TV Review
Jill Hennessy’s Claire Kincaid perished in a car crash after her first capital-punishment case; Michael Moriarty might as well be dead as far as Wolf’s concerned; and Jerry Orbach actually is. Richard Brooks and Carey Lowell have reappeared, and some of us still hope once more to hear Angie Harmon’s husky scotch-malt voice.
I have a theory about Wolf’s revolving door, but to explain it would require a long detour into those Manichaean and Gnostic heresies in which seraphim must reassemble the broken body of the original Adam to recover the hidden light.
Backstories and “relationships” used to be anathema to Wolf, yet the very first hour of Conviction ends in a sweaty bed with the insinuation that office sex, coke in condoms, and death on Mott Street may all be related.
www.nymetro.com /arts/tv/reviews/16076   (898 words)

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