The case at the center of last night's episode of "The Good Wife," had parallels to one of our area's most infamous recent incidents.

Yep, the Duke lacrosse case.

Even the characters on the show acknowledged as much, in explaining their trepidation in accepting the civil suit.

It was a clever way of the writer's noting that they were using the real case as a jumping off point.

I was excited about seeing "The Good Wife" (tonight, 10 p.m.) because it's got Chris Noth, Juliana Margulies, and because living in the age of the wayward political husband (with recent revelations, our own John Edwards now owns the crown of worse husband on the face of the
Earth), the wife at the podium seems great fodder for a dramatic approach.

After all, wasn't that Elizabeth Edwards interview with Oprah both heartbreaking and illuminating?

And what was more dramatic than watching Jenny Sanford fight for and then (wisely) abandon her marriage while her spirit was still in tact?

A friend of mine describes Jeff Goldblum as the sexiest Jewish man in the world. You're free to offer up your own candidates, but I have to agree that Goldblum is at least high on the list.

He brings that quality to his roles and that's one of the reasons to be excited about his new role as Zack Nichols on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," which debuted last night. It was all I hoped for.

It was great to see Nichol's partner Megan Wheeler's (Julianne Nicholson) disdain for him, in part I'm sure, because when she was paired up with Mike Logan (Chris Noth), SHE was the genius and the quirky one.