Sweet Stunts

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Det. Brenda Lee Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick's character on TNT's The Closer) has taken over the bright, cheerful windows of Dylan's Candy Bar on the Upper East Side. For those of you who don't watch the off-season cable show, the homicide detective smiling (and, in one case, donning what looks to be a dress made of Twizzler Nibs) in the children's candy shop windows actually kind of makes sense—Sedgwick's character on the show has a total obsession with sweets. [Adweek]