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For the Love of Jury Duty.(The Talk of the Town)
The celebrities assembled last week by the Postal Service to launch a new stamp in honor of jury duty had one thing in common: none had ever served on a jury. "I've been down here, but I was never picked," Bernadette Peters said, as she waited for the ceremony to begin, in the rotunda of the New York County Courthouse building downtown. Ditto Cindy Adams, the Post gossip columnist. Paulina Porizkova, the model, recalled, "When I was called, I was pregnant, and I wasn't hormonally ready for a jury." The actor Richard Thomas is in the middle of a national run as Juror No. 8 in the stage version of "Twelve Angry Men." "According to the rules of show business, that entitles me to speak as an expert," he said.
The festivities were delayed for the arrival of Mariah Carey, who teetered into the courthouse on five-inch heels half an hour after the unveiling was to start. (Explaining her own failure to perform jury service, she said, "I was on tour.") At the ceremony, Carey said little. "It's so early," she began, before a microphone that had been affixed to her clingy black dress fell to the floor. "It's very important to do your part in this wonderful country where we live," she went on, before adding, again, "It's so early." (It was noon.)
Credit for the cheerfully off-kilter proceedings, as well as for the idea for the stamp itself, belonged mostly to Judith S. Kaye, the chief judge of the State of New York, who seemed to find no dissonance in the idea of civic exuberance over an act that many people find as worthy of commemoration as waiting for the cable guy. The occasion happened to take place on September 12th, the twenty-fourth anniversary of ...
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- Courts crack down on jury-duty shirkers.(NATION)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 5, 2004 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor January 10, 2006 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Dempsey, John March 26, 2007 700+ words
...decision. Showrunner of "Jury Duty" is Susan Winston, former...The distributor of "Jury Duty," Forster/Tailwind, has signed WPIX New York, KCAL Los Angeles, WCIU...Stations pay no cash for "Jury Duty" but hand over half of...
