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David Simon is an award-winning journalist, author and television producer known for "The Wire," "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The Corner" and the books that inspired those shows. The former Baltimore Sun crime reporter took a leave of absence to spend a year inside the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit for his book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," which was released in 1991. The book won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book and became the inspiration for the television show "Homicide: Life on the Street." He followed that up with "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" with retired Baltimore police detective Edward Burns....
David Simon is an award-winning journalist, author and television producer known for "The Wire," "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The Corner" and the books that inspired those shows. The former Baltimore Sun crime reporter took a leave of absence to spend a year inside the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit for his book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," which was released in 1991. The book won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book and became the inspiration for the television show "Homicide: Life on the Street." He followed that up with "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" with retired Baltimore police detective Edward Burns. The New York Times Notable Book of the Year looks at an open-air drug market in the city. Simon turned the book into the miniseries "The Corner" for HBO. In 2002, Simon's relationship with HBO continued with the release of his series "The Wire," a gritty urban drama about the Baltimore drug scene. Simon serves as, creator, writer and executive producer of the show. Shot and set in Baltimore, "The Wire" has been nominated for Emmys and won a Peabody Award in 2004. The show airs its fifth and final season in 2008. Simon and Burns have teamed up again for their next HBO project, "Generation Kill." Based on a book by Evan Wright, "Generation Kill" will be a seven-hour miniseries about the early days of the war in Iraq. It is slated to premiere in 2008. In addition to providing jobs and bringing money into the local economy through "The Wire," Simon and Burns created The Ella Thompson Fund, which supports recreation and education programs for West Baltimore youth. Simon grew up in Washington and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Maryland Film Festival fundraiser
Special to The Baltimore SunThe party had all the makings of a Hollywood A-list affair: a red carpet with reporters and photographers corralled behind velvet ropes, famous directors and lots of local glitterati. However, this event was in Baltimore. And all about Baltimore....Tags: John Waters, Maryland Film Festival, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals, Festive Event
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Colleges examine 'The Wire' as social critique
"The Wire" ended nearly two years ago, but conversation about the show set in Baltimore is still going strong - particularly on American college campuses.
When a noted Harvard sociology professor recently announced he was planning a course based on the...Tags: Drama (genre), Duke University, Society, Colleges and Universities, Berkeley (Alameda, California)
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The Collaborators: The force behind Baltimore's top filmmakers
Casting director Pat Moran, a co-founder of John Waters' Dreamland Films, helped create the human tapestries that give Waters' midnight specials their Fellini-like ebullience. But she has also done her part to imbue such Barry Levinson memory plays as...Tags: Catonsville, John Waters, Kevin Bacon, Maryland Film Festival, Murder
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Hollywood South Production Picking Up
ABC26 NewsWith hurricane season ending, film and TV production in south Louisiana is picking up, and New Orleans is on track to break last year's filming record. David Simon, creator of "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Street," started shooting the first...Tags: Bribery, Consumer Electronics Industry, Thriller (genre), Diane Lane, Trials
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Benefit unites city native sons
John Waters, Barry Levinson and David Simon aren't just appearing on stage for the first time together for the Maryland Film Festival benefit on Nov. 14. They're also throwing their support behind the event in advance.
"I think we'll be good!" says...Tags: Billiards, Snooker and Pool, John Waters, Auction Service, Maryland Film Festival, Documentary (genre)
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Noir offerings color AFI screen
"The Big Combo by Philip Yordan" – that's the title credit to this amusingly pulpy 1955 crime movie, playing at the AFI Silver on Saturday at 7:15 p.m. and Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The reputation of the director, Joseph H. Lewis, has ballooned because...Tags: Billy Wilder, Drama (genre), John Waters, Auction Service, Maryland Film Festival
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'Homicide: Life on the Street' - The Complete Series
Zap2ItThough the former NBC drama has been released in its entirety on DVD before, its reissue in a 35-disc "mega-set" is well worth noting. Inspired by a nonfiction book by David Simon, the much-honored drama from producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana...Tags: Richard Belzer, DVDs and Movies, Ned Beatty, Homicide: Life on the Street (tv program), Daniel Baldwin
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Let the Emmy Awards picking and arguing begin
Baltimore Sun reporterI can think of a dozen reasons to dislike the Emmy Awards. Five of them served as co-hosts of last year's telecast. But for all the excess of the TV show itself, and some of the winners that seem totally off the wall, it is still the one night and morning...Tags: Kevin Bacon, Jon Hamm, Tony Shalhoub, Two and a Half Men (tv program), TNT
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Maryland Film Industry Coalition
Special to The Baltimore SunThe issue may have been serious: raising awareness of problems facing Maryland's film industry. But, that didn't mean that an event for that cause couldn't be fun. All you needed to see were the smiles on the faces of folks like: Betsy Jiranek,...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Government, The Wire (tv program), NBC, HBO
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TV hero gets real
For five seasons, Sonja Sohn played Detective Kima Greggs on HBO's "The Wire," the gritty Baltimore crime drama. It was a breakthrough role for Sohn, who came from a troubled upbringing in Virginia and went from poet to actress.
But on a recent...Tags: Sexual Assault, Drama (genre), Poetry, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Film Festivals
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Pacers Co-Owner Mel Simon Dies At Age Of 82
IndySportsNationMelvin Simon, shopping center industry pioneer and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Simon Property Group, has died at the age of 82 after a short illness. A native of the Bronx, New York, Mr. Simon attended the Bronx High School of Science and the...Tags: Death and Dying, Indiana University, Hospitals and Clinics, Society, Colleges and Universities
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Baltimore Museum of Industry disconnects 'The Wire'
Baltimore Sun reporterThe last shirt Stringer Bell ever wore. Detective Jimmy McNulty's gun. Avon Barksdale's prison jumpsuit. For more than a year, those and about 150 other pieces of "The Wire," the extended HBO morality play that spent five seasons exploring Charm City's...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Auction Service, John Waters, Murder, The Wire (tv program)
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