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Article: 'Cold Case' draws a bead on right look and feel
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 29, 2004
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Turning back the clock builds the drama on "Cold Case." Executive
producer and creator Meredith Stiehm cites an example: In the sixth
episode of the first season, Detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris)
investigated a murder case from the 1960s, one related to gay-
bashing.
"And that's the one we still hold up as the one to emulate, the
one that really works and had the effect that we wanted for the
show," Stiehm said. "It was a story that couldn't have been told back
then [in the 1960s] but we could tell it now in hindsight because we
have terms like 'gay-bashing.' And I think ... with the cases that
are much older, it works much better. You really feel how time has
affected a case or ...