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tziller Well worth the 45 minutes it took to read. </exaggeration> -
TheHype Pssh, took me 31mins!
Even though the article is long, it can be argued that you can't stop writing about the G.S.A.T. (Greatest Show of All TIme)
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Jason I'm already depressed that we only have one season left. Long live Omar Little. -
straight.bangin I can't believe that someone at HBO is allowing this show to end. I suppose that the silver lining is that David Simon isn't going away. -
Erin At least we may get our very own Hamsterdam. -
straight.bangin I'm not sure if y'all were reading it, but Shoals of FreeDarko put together a great blog dedicated to The Wire last season: Heaven and Here. -
You Been Blinded the article is almost as good as the show. -
sfspwns Excellent read befitting of a great show. Man, I can't wait for season 5. Now I am jonesin' to go back and start watching from the beginning again.
What to Expect From Season Five of 'The Wire'
MSN TV Blog —
... The New Yorker has published an interview with David Simon, the mastermind of HBO's "The Wire." Simon talks at length about the fifth and final season of "The Wire," which starts up in January. The new season will revolve around downsizing and intrigue at The Baltimore Sun. This is a pretty personal plotline for David Simon given that he was a crime reporter at the Sun up until 1995: ...
Movie Minesweeper - The Munchkins On Every Channel Edition
film ick —
... to be trying to get another version of Dune off of the ground. - David Simon has been discussing the fifth and final seasons of The Wire and his subsequent series, about musicians in New Orleans after the Katrina catastrophe. - Christina Millian ...
Blast Processing!
Maximum Fun - Home of The Sound of Young America, Jordan Jesse Go, and things that are awesome. —
... The Wire creator David Simon in The New Yorker ...
Everybody loves "The Wire," Titus Pullo and zombies, "FNL" outage, hope fading
SFGate: Tim Goodman. The Bastard Machine —
Everybody loves "The Wire," Titus Pullo and zombies, "FNL" outage, hope fading Oh, sure. Now that "The Wire" is heading into its fifth season and no longer needs legions of people to convince HBO to save it, everybody's on the bus. That's fine by us, though. More people see brilliance and they begin to demand it. Thus, you should check out what looks to be about 12 lengthy web pages from the ...
What's next on "The Wire," and then for David Simon?
Reel Fanatic —
... To read all of Margaret Talbot's fantastic reporting, click here, but remember that it will probably take a small chunk of time to read it all. ...
Wire Creator Sets His Sights on New Orleans
BuzzSugar —
... In a fascinating New Yorker profile, Simon reveals that he's hoping to do a new series for HBO set in the Crescent City, a location he'd hoped to explore even before Katrina hit. His idea is to focus on the community of musicians in the city, with main characters based on some of the real personalities of the New Orleans music scene. But it would be "about" musicians the same way The Wire is "about" cops — which is to say, the musicians would be a piece of a larger puzzle, in this case "a visual argument for why cities matter." ...
David Simon To Move From Baltimore To New Orleans?
TV with MeeVee —
... and I are both getting this from the same New Yorker profile of Simon, and we both have the same reaction: if he does it (and that's a big if), it'll probably be better than " ...
The Crusader
This Savage Art —
... The New Yorker profiles The Wire creator David Simon. [ Hat tip ...
The New Yorker Profiles David Simon and The Wire
Avi's TV Ramblings —
... Read the whole article here and if you’re still not convinced, just trust me. It is like no other show or movie I’ve seen or even comparable to any book I’ve read in terms of the canvas it paints with a sweeping story arc, complex and flawed characters and a mix of hope and tragedy that weaves its way through every episode of every season to date. ...
Friday links: 'The Wire,' '24,' 'The Sopranos,' etc.
The Watcher —
... The New Yorker has a long piece on David Simon, the creator of “The Wire," here. ...
Harvey Keitel Is Jerry Springer
This Savage Art —
... The New Yorker profiles The Wire creator David Simon. [ Hat tip ...
A Man With A Camera At NYFF 45, Fin
This Savage Art —
... The New Yorker profiles The Wire creator David Simon. [ Hat tip ...
Getting Back to the Old Grind
Heaven and Here —
... Second, but probably more fascinating to the show’s fans, is the big feature about David Simon in a recent issue of The New Yorker. It’s a great feature with plenty of information even if you, like us, already know pretty much everything in the article and have heard or read Simon’s talking points many times over at this point. Still, it’s not like what he’s saying is any less true as time marches on, and it’s a very good thing that more people are hearing him say those things, because so few people do say those things these days. The writer hits on some of the utter hopelessness at the heart of a lot of Simon’s rhetoric, something I think is really key to understanding the show and how it stands not only as a great narrative triumph but also as a challenge where the viewer must decide whether Simon’s at time ...
carmine and gino go to the prom
Cajun Boy in the City —
... the new yorker on the wired creator david simon: stealing life ...
Rude Boy
This Savage Art —
... The New Yorker profiles The Wire creator David Simon. [ Hat tip ...
New NYC Permit Proposal Issued
This Savage Art —
... The New Yorker profiles The Wire creator David Simon. [ Hat tip ...
backing into it
Heaven and Here —
... House Next Door guy is a, um, guy, and we happen to know another dude who’s writing about it for the Columbia Journalism Review, and one of our own male HHers is working on something for another magazine, and it all starts to look like the show gets a pretty heavy male representation in the critical community. There are exceptions: ladies at the New York Times like Virginia Heffernan, Lola Ogunnaike and Alessandra Stanley have all written about the show; Margaret Talbot did the New Yorker profile; Rebecca Traiser and Laura Miller debated the ever-fertile Wire vs. Sopranos ...
Catching up with The Wire: Season 4
thus spake drake —
... ) initially seemed odd. However, if there's a sister city to B'More, it's probably The Big Easy, with it's own brand of urban decay. It also might be serving as a precursor to David Simon's next project which reportedly will take place in New Orleans. Meanwhile, the final episode's montage is set to ...
[Wire] Links for the Day (January 6th, 2008)
The House Next Door —
... " -- in which Sepinwall cites Simon's statement that the first scene of each season encapsulates that season's main themes, then analyzes the previous four. *** 4. " Stealing Life: The Crusader Behind ...
The Mystifying Unpopularity Of "The Wire"
TV with MeeVee —
... The New Yorker noted last October that the audience for "The Wire" is a mirror of a hollowed-out city: all entitled yuppies and struggling underclass, no broad middle. Yes, I love it. Of course I do. TV critics and bloggers love it. So do gangsters and admirers of gangster culture - that's why BET snagged the syndication rights. But that doesn't mean it's going to catch on with your average TV viewer, and I'm neither surprised nor disappointed. ...
The Wire Tackles Journalism; So does The Simpsons
Thompson On Hollywood —
... makes me cringe when movies or TV try to show journalists on the job. So I was slightly nervous about The Wire creator David Simon delving into the inner workings of a metropolitan daily this season. I needn't have worried. The guy worked thirteen years as a police reporter at The Baltimore Sun; it rings true.
But plenty of folks from the paper beg to differ. Here are features on The Wire:
NPR
The LAT
The New Yorker
The A.P.
Simon responds to criticism on Romenesko. ...
David Simon talks about his career in journalism and the final chapter of 'The Wire'
The Watcher —
... The New Yorker piece goes over some of this history. Do you have any reaction to Carroll and Marimow’s recollection of events as conveyed in that story? ...
'The Wire' comes full circle in its gripping finale
The Watcher —
... An interview I did with David Simon before the start of Season 5 is here.
The minute the finale is over, I'll be heading to Alan Sepinwall's site to read his thoughts and join the discussion. He'll also have a long interview with Simon.
Here's a piece on David Simon's remarks about the show at a recent event in LA.
Of the many pieces that were written about "The Wire" in recent months, this New Yorker article and CJR piece are among the most informative and interesting.
David ...
5 for the Day: Scientists on Film
The House Next Door —
... me to consider where my interests lie, a question that inevitably manifested itself in my own cinematic curiosities. These thoughts concerned the authenticity of cinema, on what filmmakers attempt to show, and what we as viewers are and aren’t interested in—heavy but critical questions asked last year by the closing season of The Wire. In fact, I’d credit that series’ meticulous depiction of a massive range of personnel and creator David Simon’s modus operandi of “stealing life” for sparking the theme of this piece: What movies have gotten my profession right? ...
