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Stealing Life: The crusader behind “The Wire.”

MSN TV Blog found this 10/15/2007 on newyorker.com

On a muggy August afternoon in Baltimore, trash scuttled down Guilford Avenue, the breeze smelling like rain and asphalt. It was the last week of shooting for the fifth and final season of the HBO drama The Wire, and the crew was filming a scene in front of a boarded-up elementary school. Cast members had been joined by forty or so day players mostly kids from the neighborhood. Earlier, the ...