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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 Bu...
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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Allegations about air marshals using slurs get attention of elected leaders
The derogatory comments about gays and other minorities found in an air marshals field office in Orlando are raising concerns at the congressional level.
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson recently forwarded a complaint about the air marshals to the Office of...Tags: Game Shows, Bill Nelson, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Bennie G Thompson, Defense
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HBO's star turn
HBO's star-studded afternoon sessions at the Television Critics press tour launched with Claire Danes discussing her February biopic "Temple Grandin," and ended with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant bantering about the 13-part animated comedy series...Tags: Rosie O'Donnell, Claire Danes, Jack Kevorkian, MTV Networks, Band of Brothers (tv program)
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New TV shows offer midseason relief
Television CriticIt's a new year and traditionally the time when television's dead are carried from the field and their replacements sent in. Good luck to you all; it's murder out there. Trends? A few new shows about parenting (joining "Modern Family," already in...Tags: Cartoons, Syfy, Band of Brothers (tv program) , Sam Neill, Television Industry
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Girls basketball: Stevenson's Kelsey Simon takes off dancing shoes to follow in family's footsteps
Tribune reporterIf there is a basketball gene, Kelsey Simon has it. She is the daughter of former Bull Cliff Levingston. Her brother, Stevenson graduate David Simon, plays professionally in France. And she is the starting center on a Stevenson team experiencing a...Tags: Colleges and Universities, College Basketball, Family, Teaching and Learning, New England Patriots
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A city ready for its close-up
Those with the luxury of premium cable came face to face in 2002 with a side of Baltimore that city leaders would have shuddered to display even on public access channels. Taking advantage of HBO's patience with complex plots and permissiveness with...Tags: HBO, The Wire (tv program)
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George Gregory Epps, drug addiction counselor
George Gregory "Blue" Epps, a recovering addict and an addiction counselor whose struggle was depicted in "The Corner," the book which later became a critically acclaimed HBO miniseries, died of undetermined causes Nov. 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital....Tags: Anglican, Behavioral Conditions, Addiction, Public Employees, Bob Brown
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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: Film Festivals, Barry Levinson, Festive Event, John Waters, Cinema Industry
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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: Fraud, Colleges and Universities, Corporate Crime, Berkeley (Alameda, California), Middlebury
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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: Film Festivals, Barry Levinson, Fells Point, Mount Royal, John Waters
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10 key TV events of the decade
1 HBO's "Three Davids" trinity of genius. David Simon's "The Wire" (2002), David Chase's "The Sopranos" (1999) and David Milch's "Deadwood" (2004) taught a whole generation of writers, viewers and executives to revel in complicated anti-heroes and...Tags: Comedy Central, 30 Rock (tv program), Jay Leno, TNT, Documentary (genre)
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HBO goes back to New Jersey for 'Boardwalk Empire'
The sign on the chain-link fence warns "No Trespassing," and a passerby walking through this industrial Brooklyn neighborhood wouldn't think there was much to see beyond the barbed wire circling the lot, other than stacks of rust-colored shipping crates...Tags: Coney Island, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Steve Buscemi, Martin Scorsese, Television Industry
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