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D.C. Shocker: Wire Stars Barred From Capitol File’s V.I.P. Balcony
"I've never seen Obama in the flesh, but I've watched everything he's ever done," said Dominic West, who played Jimmy McNulty on The Wire-"and I'm even more in worship of him than I was before." It was...
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Everyone Wants to be David Simon
Many reporters (Canadian ones, at least) are following in the hallowed footsteps of crime-reporter-turned-Wire-creator David Simon, reports Canada's Globe and Mail. Journalism no longer has the same...
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What Genius David Simon Should Do With $500,000
When David Simon first learned that he won the MacArthur "genius" Grant — which comes with $500,000 tax-free, no-strings-attached, paid out in quarterly installments over five years — his first thought...
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Is HBO’s Luck Starting to Run Out?
Ten years ago, it wasn’t hard to decide what to do on a Sunday night. Everyone watched HBO. The programming on the premium cable network was like nothing else on the tube. But then, Carrie Bradshaw...
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Hey Bodie! ‘Wire’ Actor Hits the Streets to Protest Stop-and-Frisk
Memo to NYPD: This man is not his character from The Wire. First it was Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito (or "Gus Fring") who came forward with his story of being stop-and-frisked by the New York...
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To Do Tuesday: Wired In
George Soros Tonight, the Institute of International Education honors a group of high-rollers who’ve helped protect the rights of scholars worldwide, including full-time philanthropist and sporadically...
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Mr. Pierce Goes to Washington: Bunk at the Inauguration
Wendell Pierce at the inauguration. You probably know him as Bunk, a k a Detective William Moreland, who teamed with Detective Jimmy McNulty in HBO’s The Wire. Or maybe music’s your thing, and you know...
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Good TV, Terrible Bosses: Brett Martin Examines the Boob Tube Manly Men of...
Todd A. Kessler was the boy genius of the Sopranos writers’ room. In 1999, he wrote a teleplay, “D-Girl,” about a gangster who writes a screenplay (You Bark, I Bite) that was so good, it changed the...
View ArticleBrooklyn D.A. Candidate Busts Out His Celebrity Endorsements
A notorious kingpin of the Baltimore drug trade wants to sway your vote in the Brooklyn district attorney’s race. Well, at least the actor who plays one on television. Stars of The Wire, Law &...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) Mike Forsythe, the reporter supposedly suspended by Bloomberg News for leaking information about the company's quashed projects in China, has officially announced (on...
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