Article: A figment helps his imagination.

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Newsday (Melville, NY)
Article date:
March 15, 2007
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Byline: Verne Gay

Mar. 15--"Raines" proves that March isn't just the rag and boneshop of the TV season, where every hackneyed, weary, bloodless idea goes to die a deserved death. The reason -- you see -- is because "Raines" is good. Actually, make that quite good and possibly the best new show on NBC since September, after "Heroes" and "30 Rock" (OK, "Friday Night Lights" fans. We'll add that one in the mix too.) In his first TV outing since a 2005 cameo on "Will & Grace," Jeff Goldblum plays Michael Raines, an LAPD detective who talks to dead people. Technically speaking, they're not ghosts but figments of his turgid, neurotic, and often-pathological ...

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