Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Roy, you said it best some time ago: every new thing Jonah writes is the dumbest thing he's ever written. Until the next thing he writes. Still...I can't help but hope that someone brings this to David Simon's attention. It's all well and good for us to make fun of The Berg's fat, stupid ass but when he floats into the sights of a truly gifted writer (Wolcott, Steve Gilliard and Juan...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
I agree with this reader almost entirely: Jonah, FYI, if you recall David Simon's previous show "Homicide: Life on the Streets", the smartest and most complex character was Andre Braugher's Frank Pembleton. In one episode (season five, I believe) he says "I'm tired of being the only one around here who gives a damn. You're looking at the new Frank Pembleton. Budding Republican and practicing...
Men's Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Simon, the writer-producer behind The Wire, explains how a 6-foot-5 Swede brought his Iraq war miniseries, Generation Kill, alive.
Law Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... receive notice 60 days prior to a mass layoff. Here’s the story , from the National Law Journal. David Simon, who was recruited to Heller Ehrman’s San Francisco office in 2003, said in his lawsuit that the firm’s management sent an e-mail on Sept. 26 informing him of its pending dissolution, and terminated him in mid-October. At that time, he had accrued six weeks of paid vacation...
Hopi Sen (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... took twelve hours, rather than seven. This proved no burden at all, as I was able to devour David Simon’s “Homicide” , a book based on his year with the Baltimore police department and which would become the inspiration for his stunning HBO show, The Wire . Buy both book and box set. You won’t regret either. In the book’s epilogue, Simon talks a little about how spending so...
The TV Zone (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... were endless differences between both shows - beginning with (and ending with) "Wire" creator David Simon's compulsion to EXPLAIN what he was doing and why. But what's also noticeable is the fact that both Vic and Marlo Stanfield - also immunized - were cosseted in suits at the very end - suits as metaphors for social constrictions and conformity. Well, Marlo loses his tie, and hits...
