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NCIS' Tattooed Abby Defies Stereotypes

Like her character Abby Sciuto on NCIS (Tuesdays at 8 pm/ET on CBS), Pauley Perrette is much more than her many tattoos and dyed-black hair. Perrette revealed to TV Guide her less-than-stereotypical sensibilities, including a Southern background and an education very handy for portraying a forensic scientist. TV Guide: Would you agree that your character, Abby, has the exuberance of a cheerleader but looks like the opposite of one? Pauley Perrette: Totally. [NCIS creator] Don Bellisario told me that when he created Magnum, P.I. he wanted to introduce a Vietnam vet who defied the negative stereotype. So with Abby, he wanted to take an alternative-style person with tattoos and make her someone who is happy, totally put together and successful. All the script said about her

Tue, Dec 4, 2007

What NCIS' Michael Weatherly Learned About On-set Politics

NCIS' (Tuesdays, 8 pm/ET, CBS) Michael Weatherly shares how Tom Hanks changed his life, his thoughts on turning 40 and why he's not like DiNozzo. TV Guide: What can you say about the reports of turmoil on the set, which ended with creator Don Bellisario leaving the show? Michael Weatherly: I stay largely outside the politics of the show. I learned two lessons on another show [Dark Angel, in which he costarred with — and became engaged to — Jessica Alba]: The less I say the better, and don't date your costar! So Mark Harmon and I have never dated. Though the Silver Fox and I did spend a week in Vermont that nobody knows about.

Tue, Nov 13, 2007

What NCIS' Michael Weatherly Learned About On-set Politics