The Son Also Rises

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I've always been curious about whether artists are innately quirky and off-the-wall, or become that way because it's expected of them. I, of course, think I'm completely normal, but that may only be because I also think no one else is. Cops present this same connundrum. I once was researching a script for Hill Street Blues, and accompanied some vice squad cops conducting a sting operation. I joined them in a seedy motel office, where they were staked out while lady cops dressed as hookers lured unsuspecting johns into a motel room where other cops would leap out of the closet and arrest them. It was like living in a TV show. Did the TV cops learn from their real counterparts, I wondered, or did these real guys learn their roles from watching TV? The thing that bothered me was that they all seemed to be enjoying it way too much, crime fighting turned blood sport when the crime was so benign and the criminals just a bunch of horny schlubs. Policewomen make smashing hookers, though.