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In the masses of offerings at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, there's quite a few strong New York-centric selections both in and out of competition to seek out. Granted at $25-$14 per, tickets for the festival don't come cheap, so if you're going to see something at the fest make it a local joint.

Some other repertory selections of note playing around town this weekend include a B Musicals series at Film Forum, midnight screenings of David Lynch's delightfully perplexing at the Sunshine, both on Friday and Saturday nights. A Crave Case will not be included in the price of admission.

Sure, you might think of Christopher Meloni as the always angry Detective Eliot Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, but he's also had some indelible roles in The Runaway Bride, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Wet Hot American Summer and, of course, Oz. We were perusing the official Christopher Meloni website when we found this great speech that Oz (and Homicide) creator Tom Fontana gave for him at a Human Rights Equality Awards dinner:

When we were shooting OZ, there was a scene where the character he played, Keller, was in the Hole and had to take a piss. Chris got the script and came to my office: "I want to do this," he said, "I want to actually take a piss on camera." Normally, a scene like that would involve prop men and tubes and other special effects, but because Keller was naked, Chris' instincts were a hundred percent correct -- the scene would have more impact if he actually peed. Now, I don't know how an actor prepares for that, whether he uses Stanislavsky or Pellegrino - but the moment came, we're on the soundstage, the director calls action, the camera pans down and Chris starts peeing -- on cue. The shot is perfect. Except for one slight technical glitch. Okay. Take two - same deal, action, camera pans, Chris starts to pee on cue. The shot is even better. I'm happy. The director's delirious. Chris says, "Do we want to do it again? 'Cause I got another one in me."

Hmm, maybe there is something to the broken-windows theory about crime, you know, that stopping small crimes can lead to stopping bigger ones. Because two police officers pulled over a Dodge Caravan that ran a stop sign in Brooklyn last night, only to discover over 500 pounds of pot. And $25,000 cash. According to reports, the driver tried to run away, but the police apprehended him and the bounty. Marcus King of Florida was arrested for resisting arrest and marijuana possession, because not even the smoothest of talker would have been able to convince the police this was all for NYC hospitals or something along those lines.

Forget wild postings and other guerilla marketing tactics: The next barrier to break in NYC outdoor advertising will be conquering famous pieces of the NYC skyline. And in a post-H&M-ad-on-the-Flatiron world, Alien Loves Predator looks at some other possibilities for advertising on beloved New York City landmarks. Of course, Gothamist has been wondering if Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will try to get some sort of advertising on the Empire State Building for his remake of King Kong. Plus, there is the Steichen Flatiron photo remix. [Via reader Jen]

The NY Times' A.O. Scott wrote about how Harold & Kumar "revitalizes" slacker comedy while also "persuasively, and intelligently, [engaging] the social realities of contemporary multicultural America." Okay. Rotten Tomatoes says it's pretty fresh and Roger Ebert gives it three stars. And Karen at Gothamist Arts & Events saw the film and gives her thoughts (it's fun).

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