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Article: Milch keeps `Deadwood' denizens on their toes.
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- March 18, 2005
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Byline: Rick Porter
When David Milch first pitched his idea for what would become "Deadwood," it was set just before the fall of Rome.
Carolyn Strauss, the president of HBO Entertainment, says she listened politely to Milch's pitch, which was "fantastic." But she had to inform the "NYPD Blue" co-creator that HBO was already in development on a similar series ("Rome," due this fall), so could he possibly set the series elsewhere?
Milch's larger idea, about the way people lead their lives in an essentially lawless society, dovetailed with an interest in the settling of the West to create the dense, poetically profane western now airing on Sunday ...