By Herald wire services Thursday, June 21, 2007 - Updated: 06:57 AM EST
Judge Larry Seidlin, the teary-eyed Florida jurist who ruled on the custody of Playboy pinup Anna Nicole Smith’s dead body, is taking his loopy courtroom antics to Hollywood.
Seidlin, a former Big Apple cab driver, is poised to join the ranks of TV judges like Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown and will develop a fall 2008 show with CBS Distribution Television, Broadcast & Cable maggie reported yesterday.
CDT declined to comment this week about their made-for-TV judge, who said last week he was stepping down from his job at the Florida Circuit Family Court at the end of July. Seidlin is expected to tape a pilot or sales presentation July 2-3 in Los Angeles, reported TMZ.com.
In a letter dated June 13, 2007, and addressed to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Seidlin wrote it is “time for me to devote more of my daily life to my own young family and to pursue the many opportunities that have been offered to me outside the legal system that I have disregarded until now.”
He added that “while these opportunities are varied,” the underlying theme of his career options were committed “to helping my fellow citizens through roles in the educational system, the media and non-profit organizations.”
Hmmmm.
TMZ first reported in February that the endlessly entertaining arbiter - who frequently had his court in hysterics during the Smith custody hearings by calling laywers nicknames such as “Texas” and “California” - was angling for his own show and had even made a demo tape of cases recorded in his courtroom.
According to Fox News, Seidlin’s shameless self-promotion paid off and the cabbie-turned-jurist reportedly received at least 200 phone inquiries from TV recruiters, including CBS’ weekend “Early Show,” during and after the Smith hearing.
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