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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. The New Yor...
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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How well did you do on our latest writers quiz?
Thanks to all who played our latest quiz on Baltimore-area authors. For those who were stumped, here are the answers: 1. A frequent heroine in Laura Lippman novels is former reporter (and Lippman alter-ego?) Tess Monaghan, whose greyhound is named...Tags: John Waters, Anne Tyler, New York Times, Death and Dying, The Wire
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Critics Choice: Kent Film Festival
Filmmakers are welcome to submit entries to the 2009 Kent Film Festival. The deadline is Dec. 31. The festival will be March 26 to 29 at the Community House on Main Street in Kent. Filmmakers should submit their narrative, documentary, animated, short or...Tags: The Wire, Murder, Cinema Industry, Julia Child, Festive Event
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"The Shield:" Farewell
The TV ZoneBefore I get too far away from the actual event - and now that the hugely disappointing seventh season of "DWTS" has been washed from my memory cells - one last tribute to "The Shield." It ended the other...... -
New first family, new community
This new president didn't promise to bring a new puppy along when his family moves into the official residence, and his overall message was more of continuity than change. And yet there was a now-familiar sense of a generational shift yesterday when...Tags: Labor Legislation, National Government, John Waters, Barry Levinson, Colleges and Universities
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No hair, no waistline, no time, no news
Del. J.B. Jennings, a Baltimore County Republican who joined the Maryland Air National Guard last summer, just got back from 6 1/2 weeks of boot camp at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. How was it? "It was hell," he said. "It's everything you...Tags: Local Authority, Defense, Regional Authority, Armed Forces, NBC
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Baltimore School for the Arts combines best of old, new
The Baltimore School for the Arts opened in 1980, the same year Fame, the movie about a talented bunch of street-wise kids at a public performing arts high school in New York, debuted. What so endeared viewers to the movie was the terrific sense of...Tags: Mount Vernon, Music Industry, Architecture, Dance
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Enjoying a 'Wire' family get-together
Most of the cast members of The Wire have moved away since the Baltimore-based HBO series ended, but we're not forgotten. Actress Sonja Sohn tells me that she just had dinner this week with "a few of the guys": Jamie Hector (Marlo Stanfield), Andre...Tags: Emmy Awards, Calista Flockhart, Chris Johnson, Dexter, The Closer
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Simon not moving on General Growth
Tribune staff reporterSimon says no General Growth. In case you were wondering. Chicago-based General Growth Properties used heavily leveraged transactions to fuel its growth in recent years, but the debt-heavy real estate investment trust now faces hefty refinancing...Tags: Indianapolis, Simon Property Group Incorporated, Property, Real Estate Transactions, Corporate Officers
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A major reboot at HBO
When Alan Taylor is directing your HBO television pilot, it's usually a sign the program is a lock to get on the air. The Emmy-award winning director has put his imprint on nearly every one of the network's major series, including "The Sopranos," " Sex...Tags: Lily Tomlin, Jim Carrey, Tom Wolfe, Satellite and Cable Service, Television Industry
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If David Simon can ...
In the footsteps of David Simon, the ex- Baltimore Sun reporter who struck gold with HBO's The Wire, novelist Carl Hiaasen of the Miami Herald and New York Daily News sports columnist Mike Lupica are teaming up to write an HBO pilot. Variety says it's... -
Judge offered stern but honest warning
I was in the courtroom and heard Circuit Judge Wanda K. Heard give the lecture cited in Peter Hermann's column "How do you help those who won't help themselves?" (Sept. 19). I was so impressed by the judge's sincerity in trying to lay it all out for...Tags: Judges
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Coast-to-coast roles
It's enough to give an actor whiplash, going from Michael Lee, the hardened, tragically street-smart Baltimore teen at the center of Season 4 of HBO's The Wire, to Dixon Wilson, adopted son of rich Beverly Hills parents on the CW's 90210.
But Tristan...Tags: Assault, 90210, The Secret Life of Bees (movie), Dakota Fanning, Georgetown
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