Maxim presents: An Oral History of The Wire
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http://www.maxim.com/tv/maxim-interrogates-the-makers-and-stars-of-the-wire
Ten years ago this month, The Wire premiered on HBO and… almost nobody cared. The Baltimore saga of cops and dealers, junkies and politicians, poverty and hope, polarized critics, was ignored by the Emmys, constantly struggled for ratings and faced cancellation more than once. But it also inspired a future President, created a bona fide American folk hero, and helped launch the current “Golden Age” of television. Now for the first time ever, the creators, writers, cast and crew recall the making of an American classic.
In the mid-1980s David Simon, a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun, met Ed Burns, a homicide detective in the midst of a major case involving local drug kingpin and folk hero Melvin Williams. Key evidence in the case was gathered using wiretap surveillance.
http://www.maxim.com/tv/maxim-interrogates-the-makers-and-stars-of-the-wire
Ten years ago this month, The Wire premiered on HBO and… almost nobody cared. The Baltimore saga of cops and dealers, junkies and politicians, poverty and hope, polarized critics, was ignored by the Emmys, constantly struggled for ratings and faced cancellation more than once. But it also inspired a future President, created a bona fide American folk hero, and helped launch the current “Golden Age” of television. Now for the first time ever, the creators, writers, cast and crew recall the making of an American classic.
In the mid-1980s David Simon, a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun, met Ed Burns, a homicide detective in the midst of a major case involving local drug kingpin and folk hero Melvin Williams. Key evidence in the case was gathered using wiretap surveillance.
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? Love Them Some Wire
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thank you!!! saved from the shame of the thread ending up on the 2nd page
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lol @ thisMichael B. Jordan (Wallace, Barksdale gang dealer): This is some real ? . It was real to the point where crackheads would come up and try to cop. I had fake money, and they would come over, and an exchange would go down. I would think they were part of the crew, and I’d make the exchange. Then security would come around and be like, “No! No! No!” and break it up. I was like, “Oh, ? ! That’s really a ? -head! I’m sorry! I’m not really a drug dealer!”
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Andre Royo: They called me and told me I got the part of Bubbles, and my wife got excited. “Oh, ? ! You got the part!” Packing her bag for L.A., and I’m like, “Nah, nah, we filming in Baltimore.” And she unpacked real quickly: “I’ll see you when you come home.”
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shouts to the wire, put my city on da map!!!! i still remember getting paid $40 back in 2005 to be a extra in a scene, just had to walk cross the street.
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shouts to the wire, put my city on da map!!!! i still remember getting paid $40 back in 2005 to be a extra in a scene, just had to walk cross the street.
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he could throw any old scene up with a ? in the background tho -
everybody in bmore gotta extra's story.. smh....
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Dude who played Bubbles said he was blazing a blunt watching HBO amped bout the part
Omar never cursed?
Idris was blazing weed too -
Took that $40 and probalbly gave it to Wallace