Unparalleled 'Wire' to conclude Sunday
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David Simon works on additional dialogue recording for a new miniseries based on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Simon is also the creator of 'The Wire,' an HBO show which endeavored unlike any previous fictional series to depict a city in full. Its protagonist is Baltimore, framed by thousands of close-ups of its inhabitants, from the drug dealers on the corner to the politicians in City Hall. When it premiered in 2002, Simon, series creator and former Baltimore Sun reporter, set out with grand ambitions of social commentary and novelistic storytelling. An 'angry show,' he's called it. The final episode, the 60th, airs Sunday, March 9. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
AP - On "The Wire," it's tradition for Baltimore police to hold a wake for a fallen officer by laying out his body on a barroom pool table, singing the Pogues' "The Body of an American" and raising their glasses to the dearly departed. |
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