June 2012
Watchscenes-from-my-hood:
this is HAPPY BIRTHDAY, you big red hunk.
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“That’s politics. That’s the politics of outside New York and L.A. That’s the...”
– Wendell Pierce is perfect (x)
“It was crazy. We saw our audience get bigger and bigger, and then come the SAG...”
– Andre Royo on the Emmy snubs (x)
“People hadn’t seen a female killer [on TV]. People tell me that. I’m pretty, I...”
– Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, on Snoop (x)
“The Wire’s best death, however, belongs to Snoop, thanks to perhaps television’s...”
– Felicia Pearson, on Snoop’s death (x)
“I always went online to see the reactions that people would have after someone...”
– Method Man (x)
“It really is an American classic, and I think that’s something to be very proud...”
– Wendell Pierce (x)
no worries: An oral history of The Wire →
jkottke:
The Wire premiered on HBO 10 years ago tomorrow so Maxim (what really?) is out with a long oral history. It’s all worth reading (and finally proof for the ‘I read it for the articles’ argument), but the more interesting bits to me were towards the end, and I wish there were a few…
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
No Gatorade: Celebrating New York City’s Pick-up Basketball Scene
Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau played ball and talked to players across New York’s five boroughs to make Doin’ It in the Park, a forthcoming feature documentary about playground basketball. The two filmmakers talk about the making of the documentary and share an excerpt from the film on the Atlantic Video...
May 2012
