Blue Bloods Event at Paley Center (tweets)

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Live tweets came from @paleycenter. Here they are:
  • Paley president Pat Mitchell welcomes CBS chief Les Moonves 
  • Cast comes in, Tom Selleck, Len Cariou, Donnie!, Will Estes et al all looking very good
  • Leonard Goldberg, the man who brought us Charlie's Angels, Boy in Plastic Bubble, Brian's Song: such tv classics 
  • Don't want to spoil the first show for those watching on Friday. Will be back after screening.
  • Selleck says it's the first time he has seen the final version, scored, etc.
  • Great episode. Donnie "Go Red Sox" Wahlberg. I see shades of Lipton, Band of Brothers
  • Selleck came back to tv because of the script, then the cast 
  • Wahlberg, loves working in NY. Even when Bronx guy says "Red Sox Suck" 
  • Selleck felt this show about NY police dept. had to be shot in NY. Several cast relocated for it.
  • Cariou, grandfather of the clan. Thinks the Sunday dinner is most interesting part of the series.
  • Estes, likes the backstory of his character, sees it could go in many different ways. 
  • Selleck, the family dinner was shot 1/2 day after they all first met. But it worked, they seem like family already
  • Donnie, I just came off a tour, all pumped up, but I would look at Selleck to see if "Danny" was going too far.
  • Selleck, I think about my own father for direction sometimes. Don't want to cry up here, he's gone now.
  •  Selleck, would like audience to get some sense of what it must be like to be police officers, and their families
  •  Selleck, we don't yet know all about our characters. Kind of like life itself.
  •  Selleck shakes hands with NY Commissioner Ray Kelly. First time Tom has met Ray in person.
  •  Audience Q brings up James Garner. Selleck says Garner was a real mentor to him.
  •  Selleck speaks about his support of the National Fatherhood Initiative.
  •  Wahlberg, story about New Yorker in Washington Square Park giving him a hard time in middle of a scene
  •  Audience Q about 9/11. Wahlberg responds that he looks at the people, and how blessed we are that the city survived.
  • Wahlberg, We have a tremendous obligation to honor the people we play
  •  Selleck, with emotion, I was in NY on 9/11, doing a play.
  •  Pat Mitchell recognizes Commissioner Kelly. And with that, we say good night
 Source: http://twitter.com/paleycenter

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