In September 2003, most people didn’t know NCIS (the acronym for Naval Criminal Investigative Service) from NBFA (National Business Forms Association) or NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology).

TV producer Don Bellisario was nervous enough about the low recognition factor that he originally gave his series the redundant title “Navy: NCIS.” He also made it a running joke in the pilot that NCIS agents got puzzled looks when they announced themselves and flashed their badges.

By Luaine Lee
Knight Ridder Newspapers

HOLLYWOOD — When actor Michael Weatherly was 12 years old, his parents sent him to Camp Challenge. His mother wanted to toughen him up, he says.

“It was a three-week duration, and I had to canoe, fight, build my own ax, learn to read a topographic map, compass, and we had something called ‘24-hour survival’ where they left us in the woods alone for 24 hours and you had to find food, build a lean-to. That changed me. It either changed me or it broke me,” he says.

“Her Minor Thing,” a theatrical motion picture romantic comedy directed by Charlie Matthau and starring Estella Warren (“The Cooler,” “Kangaroo Jack”), Michael Weatherly (“Navy NCIS,” “Dark Angel”), Christian Kane (“Just Married, “Taxi” the movie) and comedienne Rachel Dratch, is now filming in Sacramento, California, where it will be filmed in its entirety.

The independent production is the story about the comic misadventures that develop when a beautiful professional Sacramento career woman (Warren) is rumored to still be a virgin at the age of 27. The film is produced by Crescent Moon Films with the film’s writer Jim Meyers serving as producer and Vikki Wagner as executive producer. Also in the cast are comedienne Kathy Griffin, Flex Alexander and Victoria Jackson.

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Well, I think that’s what is happening this year on Dark Angel is that you have Max, Jessica Alba, on this on this brand new mission if you will to escape from the place where she had escaped when she was nine years old. But now she’s you know 20 years old and finds herself a prisoner again. That escape is what kicks off the season. And her escape has massive explosive repercussions through not just her world, but the actual entire world that we all live in, the whole society. So we have a lot happening.