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“East New York,” the pilot drama currently in the works at CBS, has added four new cast members. Ruben Santiago Hudson, Richard Kind ("Argo," "A Serious Man"), Lavel Schley and Olivia Luccardi have joined the pilot along with previously announced series lead Amanda Warren. In the pilot, Regina Haywood (Warren) is the newly promoted Deputy Inspector of East New York, an impoverished, working-class neighborhood on the eastern edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy their creative methods of serving and protecting amid social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.   Hudson has been cast as Marvin Sandeford. Marvin could have become a chief or a detective, but he never wanted to be anything other than a street cop. He is very opinionated and given to snap judgments and intractable, but not without compassion. No one knows as much about East New York as he does. Hudson is represented by Gersh a...