[Scriptoris] Fwd: [Scribes] Calligraphy coming on Law & Order!

[Hillary Greenslade]

Saw this on the known world scribes list and thought some of you may be 
interested in the show.  Hillary 

--- Susan Bondurant <scribesub at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:25:46 -0800 (PST)
> From: Susan Bondurant <scribesub at yahoo.com>
> To: scribes at castle.org, DL-Scribes at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Scribes] Calligraphy coming on Law & Order!
>>From the Cyberscribes list...
>   Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 16:02:16 -0000
>   From: "Nan" <deluca212 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: TV gig
> 
> Last month, I got a telephone call from "Law and
> Order:  Criminal Intent".  They were planning a show
> about a forger and wanted me to do the documents
> (props) being used on the show.  These documents were
> to be from various 'characters' in the story from
> 1880's time frame.  I was given mini-bios of these
> characters and had to write 
> like them consistently---and differently from the
> others.  The nice thing was they thought my Spencerian
> was 'too good'.  I should take 
> it down a notch or 2.  grin.
> 
> Had to go on set to provide some guidance.  Forger
> (Steve Colbert from The Daily Show is guest star) was
> using a dip pen;  they got a left-handed hand double
> which I also worked with.  Was a lot of fun, 
> paid well and got me out of the studio (as I like to
> call my little work corner).
> 
> But---the best thing was that they cared enough for
> accuracy to get a calligrapher to do the work, as
> opposed to whipping it up on a computer and then
> doctoring it to look 'real'.  They even did some 
> research into penmanship!
> 
> Anyways... the episode airs in US this coming Sunday
> Night (3/14). Have to check your listings.   their
> website has not been updated yet to advertise this
> episode.http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Criminal_Intent/episode_guide/index.html
>  
> another fun part of living/working in nyc!
> nan
> still not a star...but having some fun!
> 


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