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An Outsider Finds 'Riches' in America.

Publication: Broadcasting & Cable
Publication Date: 05-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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By Caroline Palmer

First-time TV writer Dmitry Lipkin draws on his immigrant experience for his new FX series

Dmitry Lipkin knows what it's like to be an outsider. A Russian-born Jew who immigrated to Baton Rouge, La., when he was 10, Lipkin recalls an encounter during a schoolyard football...

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...game: After hearing what he thought was a slight from a fellow player, he left the field, only to realize later that the player was simply explaining the rules when he said "no rushin'"--not "no Russian."

"I saw myself as displaced," he says. "I was looking into the American society through the prism of a Russian-Jewish immigrant living in the South."

Now, Lipkin, 39, is drawing on that familiar outsider's perspective as the creator of The Riches , a new FX series from Fox Television Studios and Maverick Television.

The drama, which premieres March 12, stars British actors Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as American gypsies who assume the identity of...

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