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“The Practice” is the show David E. Kelley created for ABC between “Chicago Hope” for CBS and “Ally McBeal” for Fox. The show followed the staff of Donnel and Associates, a struggling law firm with a reputation for representing unsavory clients like drug dealers. It went on to win the “outstanding drama” Emmy twice. The Volume One DVD contains the 13 episodes created for the show’s first season on ABC, but only six of these actually aired during the first season. The other seven on this set were actually intergrated into the first half of the series’ second season. (The coming “volume two” set will presumably contain the 21 Lara Flynn Boyle episodes that formed the balance of season two.)

Deadwood’s third and final season was a kind-of prequel to “Citizen Kane,” as it circled the impact on the titular mining camp of wealthy prospector George Hearst, father of William Randolph and great-grandfather of Patty. It was fun to see the South Dakota berg – notably enemies Al Swearengen and Seth Bullock – unite in their hatred for Hearst. In real life, Swearengen arrived in Deadwood in the summer of 1876, mere weeks before Bullock and Sol Star got there. Swearengen didn’t open the Gem until 8 months after the assassination of Wild Bill Hickock. Hearst was a U.S. senator representing California when he died in 1891. Bullock and Swearengen operated side by side in Deadwood for decades. Swearengen stuck around until 1899, when the Gem burned down for the second time. Bullock died in Deadwood in 1919, in the hotel he built on the site of his and Sol’s old hardware store. Deadwood is still on the map, just a few miles north of Rapid City and a few miles south of Interstate 90. Deadwood is also about an hour’s drive north of Mount Rushmore, where Bullock’s best friend, Theodore Roosevelt, is immortalized.

Even in her “Celebrity Mole” days, it was perfectly obvious that funny just pours out of Kathy Griffin pretty much 24/7. She comes equipped with sharp sense of self-deprecation and a freakishly fearless, disarming candor that renders her a kind of perfect television creature. It is for this reason that Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List contends for the title of most entertaining reality series ever forged. Extras on the new set include Griffin’s hourlong Bravo stand-up special “I Am Not Nicole Kidman.”
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