"I would be spinning if I told you I wasn't smarting from that," admits Jimmy Smits, speaking of the untimely demise of his first-class "Cane" drama series. The CBS show, about a wealthy rum-producing dynasty in South Florida, drew initial raves, but was struggling to pick up ratings momentum when it was dealt a deathblow by the industry shutdown.

"It's collateral damage to the writers' strike in some ways," he says. "But we got a nice up at bat, and ...

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