Beyond CSI: Inside Anthony Zuiker's New Cross-Platform
Experiment  Anthony Zuiker created CSI, generating more than $6
billion. But with his new cross-platform experiment, his killer
instinct is really kicking in.  A Man crouches on a 3-foot-
by-3-foot glass-top table in a dank basement near the Los
Angeles River, just outside of downtown L.A. The man is a
contortionist. He's wearing a skintight, hooded latex body
condom, bone white, zipped up the back to the top of his head,
with holes for his eyes and a zipper over his mouth.  He
nonchalantly folds a leg behind his neck and scratches his head
with his toes. Next to him is a gallon jar of snails, and on a
table, a pile of salt has been cut into lines in the shape of a
maze. With a razor blade, the contortionist scrapes the glass
clean between the lines, then deposits a snail in the center.
Snails disintegrate in salt, of course, so the dozen or so
people watching this scene on a monitor in the next room lean
forward, rapt. The contortionist sets his featurel