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Wire and Treme actor opens grocery in New Orleans
He played a hardnosed detective on HBO's The Wire, a trombonist on Treme and soon Wendell Pierce will be a grocery store owner.
The actor who has a made a career starring in David Simon's popular television series plans to open Sterling Farms grocery...Tags: HBO (tv network), Healthy Diet, Personal Income, The New York Times, David Simon
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'The Wire' update: Here are some cast members doing some very good work
The Baltimore SunWith Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea Monday to conspiracy to sell heroin, it seems like a good time to catch up with what some of the other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing. And two of the finest actors in the series, Dominic...Tags: Julian Rhind-Tutt, George Clooney, Heroin, CBS Corp., Juliet Stevenson
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'The Wire' has ended, but its talent is still being tapped
With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.
The answer: Several are doing just fine professionally....Tags: Tuskegee Airmen, Minority Groups, Showtime (tv network), Body of Proof (tv program), Heroin
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Attorney General Holder orders more episodes of 'The Wire'
The Obama administration has some very pressing matters on its hands: Three overseas wars, an economy struggling to recover and a massive budget shortfall.
So, what are administration officials spending their time doing? Why, ordering more episodes of...Tags: Movies, The Wire (tv program), Ed Burns, Jim True-Frost, Eric Holder
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Music in 'Treme' takes you to another place
Last season in previewing HBO's "Treme," I said that in 30 years of writing about television, I had never heard music used as organically, wisely and powerfully as it was in the New Orleans-based series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. I also...Tags: Music Industry, NBC (tv network), Television Industry, Jon Seda, Van Morrison
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Local Producers Celebrate 4 Tony Nominations
Some local theatre producers are up for some big accolades in the Big Apple with their show, Clybourne Park. Clybourne takes a unique approach to a difficult subject. The Broadway hit discusses tough issues like race and class, all from the...
Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Concerts
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Film Version of Christopher Shinn's "Four" To Premiere At L.A. Film Fest
Hartford CourantThe indie film based on Christopher Shinn’s Hartford-inspired play “Four” will get its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The play was the first produced work by the Wethersfield-raised playwright. In 2003 TheaterWorks in...Tags: Movies, TheaterWorks, Festive Events, Drama (genre), Wethersfield
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'Bundlers' raised at least $74 million for Obama campaign in 2011
President Obama added nearly 100 fundraising heavy-hitters -- among them Hollywood stars and financial titans -- to his reelection effort in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a list released by his campaign today.
In all, the campaign...Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, Finance, Mitt Romney, Jon Corzine, Eva Longoria
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'Help' leads Image Award pic noms: 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Game' get six noms in TV
Variety"The Help" led the pack with eight NAACP Image Award nominations, including picture, director and multiple acting honors, the org announced Thursday. "Pariah" and "Jumping the Broom" also were nominated in multiple categories, with seven and six,...Tags: NCIS (tv program), The Game, Sonny Rollins, T.D. Jakes, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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Film of Christopher Shinn's "Four" Completed; Pitching Sundance
Hartford CourantHere's an update in the film version of "Four," the London and off-Broadway play by Hartford-born and Wethersfield-raised playwright Christopher Shinn. Though last year plans fell apart because of financing to film in the area the movie version of the...Tags: Movies, The Wire (tv program), Off-Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events, Sundance Film Festival
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Critic's Notebook: 'Treme's' collection of beautiful moments
Every city has its own singular character — just ask Minneapolis about St. Paul — but there is perhaps no American city as singularly singular, as stubbornly exotic, as attached to its difference as New Orleans, that funky little cosmopolis...Tags: Kim Dickens, Floods, Television, John Goodman, Mardi Gras
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Actors from HBO's 'The Wire' take part in drug panel
Z on TVWendell Pierce, Sonja Sohn and Jim True-Frost (aka Bunk, Kima and Prez) participated in a Justice Department panel Tuesday on drug abuse, families and at-risk children. It is part of an initiative launched by Attorney General Eric Holder and announced...
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