LA runs on the Internet -- whether you're researching characters in your newest screenplay, consulting the workout schedule at your gym or checking the Arclight's showtimes, a free wifi connection is absolutely essential.
That allowed Mr. Milch, an executive producer with Mr. Bochco, to hang out with the New York City police and research characters like the detective Andy Sipowicz Dennis Franzz).
I bought a lot of books because I wanted to start with the history of the country and then to research characters once I had an idea of where they were from and the position from which they would be coming.
The part he liked best was researching the character and writing the application.
Unbeknown to Ms. Bessin, she was researching a character that had not yet found her outlet.
"For me, the starting point is researching every character, and I look at all available portraiture," she says.
How do they cope?, Ms. Hargitay wondered of the detectives she met in Manhattan's special victims unit while researching her character.
("I've been researching this character for a long time," he said recently over a beer at the nearby Minetta Tavern).
While researching her character Dr Tony Hill, a clinical psychologist, she consulted Dr Mike Berry, who has worked at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital and for the police on offender profiling.
In researching the character, Mr. Quinto, who came out as gay in 2011, considered the struggles Williams had with his own sexuality.
On researching the character of Christopher, Treadaway says: "I went to about four or five different schools for children with autism and spent a day at each one learning the differences but also the similarities between them.
