So, I was watching the season premiere of "Law & Order" last night -- and the case concerned a (fictional) teenager who advertised for sex on a (made up) social networking Web site called B-Frendz.com, saying she'd sleep with anyone who killed her mother. I did try to see if such a site existed once the show ended (it doesn't). I wonder what the reaction of Friendster, MySpace, and the others will be -- did they try to get an injunction against the show airing, or did they help the show's creators to make sure that viewers understood there are safeguards in place to prevent something like this from happening in real life?
Also, in searching the NBC.com Web site, I found a blog by "L&O" creator Dick Wolf, in which he communicates directly with fans. In the blog were references to clips on YouTube.com from a "Sesame Street" spoof called "Law & Order: Special Letters Unit" (check it out, it's hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5121VjLwqZM -- even has the "chung-chung" sound that always tells you some new plot twist is coming in the real "L&O" series). Wolf said he's glad "Seasame Street" chose to do this skit, and hopes they'll do all 26 letters of the alphabet, to keep buzz about his show going with the next generation.
Is this life imitating art, or art imitating life, or art imitating life imitating art? The next "Law & Order" plot is about someone killed while walking past an Upper East Side townhouse that explodes. Hmm, sounds familiar...
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