Article: Dennis Franz doesn't want his 'NYPD Blue' character to get too comfy.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Dennis Franz is looking for trouble.

Not for him, personally, but for Detective Andy Sipowicz, his lovable, unmade-bed-of-a-character on ABC's ``NYPD Blue.'' As Steven Bochco's hit drama opens its third season on Tuesday, Sipowicz is a happy, on-the-wagon newlywed.

So what's the menace, Dennis?

``They've made an uncomfortable character comfortable,'' says Franz, who took the plunge with assistant D.A. Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence) at the end of last season. ``I don't want to make him too comfortable and lose the dangerous element to his makeup _ his edge.''

If Sipowicz gets too domesticated, ``viewers could forget what's underneath his ...

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