Citizen Staff Writer
Entertainment
Entertainment news about personalities and events with an Old Pueblo Connection.
TV crime show will be filmed in Tucson
The Old Pueblo is the setting of a new crime show set to air on TV in fall 2010.
“Tucson Vice” is in development, according to the show’s creator and executive producer DJ Donnelly.
“Watch Jackson and Capetta in their Corvette ZR1 and Shelby Series One combat the drug lord king Alexo Spinetta from Mexico each week in this highly fashioned speedy action television drama . . . ,” teases the news release. “Each week Jackson & Capetta take you on a speedy journey through Tucson in the fast cars with great music scoring, locations and great productions. To be shot entirely in Tucson.”
For more details, check out www.djdonnellyproductions.com.
Former teacher writes mystery set in Tucson
Tucsonan Ken Radon has written his first novel, “The Other Son,” which is set in the Old Pueblo.
Published by Xlibris, the book is a mystery-police thriller.
In the fictional story, Mike Groman, captain of the Tucson Police Department’s Homicide Unit, and two rookie cops investigate the gruesome murder of a prominent local businessman.
“Their search through a mazelike trail of evidence led them to a troubled, yet mentally gifted serial killer, who had struck in other states,” the cover sleeve reads. “Mike and his detectives, playing a deadly game of Beat the Clock, set a trap for the assassin in an attempt to end his murderous rampage.”
Radon is a retired schoolteacher who has lived in Tucson for more than 30 years.
Tucsonan’s story featured on ‘The Locator’
A Tucson woman will be featured in the second-season premiere of the hit WE television series “The Locator,” which airs at 9 p.m. (ET) March 21.
In the one-hour episode, Tucson native Wendy seeks the help of professional locator Troy Dunn in finding her biological mother, who disappeared from her life when she was a child. However, Wendy’s story takes a hurtful turn when her mother doesn’t want to see her after being located by Troy.
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