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Article: PORTRAYAL OF CHARACTER'S DEATH SHOWS `NYPD BLUE'S' GRIP ON LIFE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- May 9, 1996
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Byline: Dusty Saunders Rocky Mountain News Broadcasting Critic
Life is so cheap on prime time television.
Battered, bloodied bodies fall with the consistency of two-point shots in a high scoring NBA game.
That's why Tuesday night's wrenching NYPD Blue episode was so memorable.
Life was precious.
The advance story line tipped off viewers: ``The squad deals with the murder of someone close to home.''
It was easy to predict that rookie cop Andy Sipowicz Jr. was, in cop parlance, ``goin' down.''