The Wire – Omars Day. (YouTube) Obit Magazine, Off-Beat Obit: “A Man’s Gotta Have a Code”: “BALTIMORE – Omar Little, the veteran stick-up artist who inspired fear and fascination in drug-plagued neighborhoods across the city, was shot and killed in a west-side convenience store yesterday. Police said the assailant remained at large. Famed for his [...]
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Omar Little – A Man’s Gotta Have a Code
February 27th, 2008
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This ain’t Aruba, bitch.
February 2nd, 2008
“This ain’t Aruba, bitch.” – Bunk (The Wire: Unconfirmed Reports.) Entertainment Weekly, ”The Wire”: Bright Lies, Big City: “Last night’s epigraph – ”This ain’t Aruba, bitch” – was delivered by a slurring Bunk at the bar. All those black bodies found in the rowhouses aren’t enough to warrant a continued investigation, and Bunk, McNulty, and [...]
Tags: aruba · crime · joran van der sloot · media · mwws · natalee holloway · nl · the wire · tv · usa
Omar Little – Michael K. Williams: He’s Only Playing Tough
January 23rd, 2008
Fresh Air, Michael K. Williams: He’s Only Playing Tough: “On HBO’s The Wire, actor Michael K. Williams plays Omar Little, a stick-up guy who robs only drug dealers. Omar has a scar running down his face. That’s not a prosthetic scar; it’s real. Williams tells Terry Gross the story behind his scar — and lots [...]
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The Wire – The Newsroom
January 6th, 2008
Omar Little. Played By Michael Kenneth Williams. Het vierde seizoen van de Amerikaanse tv-serie The Wire (wikipedia) wordt niet zelden ‘de beste serie ooit op tv uitgezonden’ genoemd. Onnodig overdreven, maar niet eens heel ver bezijden de waarheid. Hoe dan ook, vandaag 6 januari begint het vijfde en laatste seizoen: “The fifth and final season [...]
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Inside HBO’s The Wire: Cinematography
December 23rd, 2007
Inside HBO’s The Wire: “Continuing to describe The Wire’s visual differences from conventional TV, Chappelle moved to the subject of lighting. “We’re not afraid to let people go into shadow, we seldom have edge lights or give the ladies a beauty light. You know all the things you’re supposed to do, well we usually don’t.” [...]
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Stealing Life
October 17th, 2007
The New Yorker: Stealing Life. The crusader behind “The Wire. Lang artikel over David Simon and The Wire.
Tags: baltimore · david simon · the wire · tv · usa
The Sopranos vs. The Wire
September 15th, 2007
“The Sopranos” vs.”The Wire”, Two Salon critics duke it out over which series is the greatest ever. “In a way, it doesn’t make sense to talk of “The Wire” as the best American television show because it’s not very American. The characters in American popular culture are rarely shown to be subject to forces completely [...]
Summer news regarding The Wire
September 5th, 2007
Kottke: “Summer news regarding The Wire (including season five info).”