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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 ...
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When the Hollywood writers' strike is really getting
me down, there's a mantra I like to repeat:
"We'll still have The Wire !" The HBO series kicks off its fifth and final season Jan. 6, though digital cable subscribers with On Demand will be ...
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Three or four years ago, I got an
email from a friend in which he described The
Wire as the best thing he’d ever seen on TV, “apart from Abigail’s Party.” Here was a recommendation designed to get anybody’s attention. No mention of The West ...
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"No, no, it's spelled P, E, D, A,
N, T, I, C." Courtesy of HBO One of
the otherwise-engaging newsroom scenes in last night’s Wire premiere stuck in our craw: David Simon's grammar lesson. Remember? The go-getting young reporter played by ...
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Well now, it's been a week since The
Wire 's final episode and a certain calm has
descended, leaving a little less agita and a little more reflection. A moment for one last question: That wasn't too vicious, was it? Sure there was a ...
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AFTER spending four seasons examining the failures of
Baltimore's civic institutions, "The Wire" in its final run
takes on particularly personal terrain for creator David Simon: the Baltimore Sun. Simon spent 13 years at the Sun (now owned by the ...
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Reihan Salam critiques The Wire : "David Simon
thinks he’s constructed a critique of capitalism, but in
fact he’s prepared an elaborate, moving brief for despair and (ultimately) indifference." I think that's right. What's more, based on what I've ...
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This interview with “The Wire” creator David Simon
was conducted over two different days shortly before the
9th episode of the final season aired. (But after I had already seen the series finale.) We discuss several characters’ final fates in ...
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Parker to exec produce 'Washingtonienne' HBO has greenlit
three pilots, including David Simon's next project for the
pay cabler and a period drama from Martin Scorsese and "The Sopranos" alum Terence Winter. HBO toppers Richard Plepler and Michael ...
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"The Wire" creator David Simon is recruiting some
old friends for his new HBO pilot "Treme."
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Glynn The feedback has been absolutely fantastic. Starting
with a message sent to me by the Great
James Earl Jones with his kudos, saying how much he enjoyed my performance. Other friends and colleagues have expressed similar comments like Sidney ...
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"The Wire" is going back in time to
promote its future. The critically acclaimed HBO series has
given a multiplatform launch to three filmed shorts produced by "Wire" creator David Simon that explore the backstories of some its characters.
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HBO's The Wire has been labeled by many
(including us) as the best TV drama ever made.
The show's fifth and final season began this month and it focuses, in part, on the struggles of a daily newspaper in decline. That part of the story is set at The ...
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Sunday night, the last season of "The Wire"
took its final bow. Instead of leaving these beloved
(and sometimes loathed) characters suspended in time, "Sopranos"-style, the writers chose to wrap up loose ends, providing viewers with a far more ...
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Event Speakers: David Simon , Nora Baston ,
Geoffrey Canada Event Moderators: Professor William Julius Wilson Event
Co-Sponsors: HBO , Harvard's W.E. B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research , Department of African and African American ...
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Spike Lee may
not be done with Hurricane Katrina yet. The director
of the HBO miniseries "When the Levees Broke" said Thursday he's considering visiting the area where Katrina struck again in the next 24 months for a ...
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As viewers tune out the ongoing war in
Iraq, the creator of HBO's The Wire returns with
Generation Kill , a seven-hour miniseries about the 2003 invasion. By Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/7/2008 12:05:00 AM I have a certain amount of ...
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TV News: Three greenlit pilots include 'Washingtonienne' --
HBO has given the greenlight to three pilots, including
David Simon's next project for the pay cabler and a period drama from Martin Scorsese and "Sopranos" alum Terence Winter.
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The Wire July 30, 2008 at The Times
Center , New York The Wire concluded its fifth
and final season this year as one of the most acclaimed dramatic series in television history. David Simon, who created, produced, and wrote many episodes, shaped The ...
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Fox 2000 is drawing on scribes Keith Merryman
and David A. Newman to pen the Katherine Heigl
action-comedy "Drawn Together." Details of the project are being kept under wraps. The studio would only say the film centers on an electronics designer who ...
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- THE WIRE & 30 ROCK Big Winners at the WGA Awards
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- Why David Simon Should Shut Down The Wire [Backlash]
- "The Wire": Episode 8, "Clarifications"
- David Simon … on journalism's fatal flaws
- Ten Questions Left Unanswered by the ‘Wire’ Finale
- ‘The Wire’: One Last Long, Boozy Irish Wake for David Simon’s Accidental Masterpiece
- America's Ten Best Magazines [Magazines]
- Homicide: Life on the Street - Bop Gun
- "K-Ville" Refugee Rescued By "L&O," Not FEMA
- All Reality and No Writers Makes HBO a Dull Channel
- The Wire Was Robbed [Emmys]
- The Critics Fete Their Faves
- Generation Kill Mondays: Episode 5, "A Burning Dog"—Take 2
Stealing Life: The crusader behind “The Wire.”