PEN AWARD CEREMONY, November 17, 2010 Julie and Hugh Hefner (!) will receive PEN awards this year, along with good friend Victor Lodato who takes the Fiction award as well as being a finalist in the Drama category. Julie and Victor will sit together… and attempt to say hello to Hugh during the evening.
It was just announced that Julie’s play TREE won the prestigious PEN Center West Award for Drama this year. The Awards ceremony will be held in November. A press release will follow soon.
Julie is working on the new CBS Television series Blue Bloods, which will premiere in September. Not only does the series shoot in New York City, but the writers are based there, so Julie has taken up residence in Gotham City for the time being. The drama was created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Emmy Award-winning writers of the Sopranos, and is being run by Ken Sanzel, previously of Numb3rs.
The story centers on the Reagans, a tight-knit clan of New York cops, led by Tom Selleck, also starring Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, and Len Cariou. For the Reagans, putting criminals behind bars is more than just a job—it’s the family business. They may clash over methods, internal politics and Sunday dinner, but they have one thing in common—they’ll stop at nothing to see justice served.
Here’s the show on the CBS site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/blue_bloods/video/
