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Posted Friday 10/08/21 at 2:17PM EDT
Baltimore Ravens plan to make its use Omar's The Wire whistle a regular tribute to Michael K. Williams
The NFL team actually reached out to Williams five years ago for a “Ravens comin'" collaboration inspired by the oft-quoted...
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The Wire alums Felicia Pearson and Ed Burns are teaming on a limited series based on her life
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Posted Monday 9/20/21 at 6:18PM EDT
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker talks about his jealousy of Succession and helping introduce The Wire to British viewers
Before his massive Black Mirror success, Brooker was a TV critic writing and filming video segments about reality TV, TV...
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Posted Monday 9/13/21 at 11:16AM EDT
David Simon remembers Michael K. Williams: We had trouble casting Omar on The Wire until we remembered the actor with the "amazing scar"
The Wire creator tweeted that his New York Times tribute to Williams, who died a week ago at age 54,...
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Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT
Michael K. Williams was a performer openly daunted by the task at hand: a shock absorber
"No knock on David Simon and Ed Burns, but it was Williams who invented Omar.
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Posted Wednesday 9/08/21 at 3:39PM EDT
Jonathan Majors pens a tribute to Lovecraft Country co-star Michael K. Williams: "He was an angel — a guardian angel"
"Today the world is a different place," Majors writes in an essay for Variety.
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Michael K. Williams was much more than an actor — he was a storyteller
From Omar Little to Chalky White to Leonard Pine, Williams "made you believe in every character, scene, line, and moment...
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Posted Tuesday 9/07/21 at 2:45PM EDT
Michael K. Williams reflected on the fragility of life was in an emotional February 2020 Instagram post following Kobe Bryant's death
"I’ve been thinking about my own mortality lately," wrote Williams, who died Monday at age 54.
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The Wire's Michael K. Williams dies at 54
The Emmy-nominated actor best known for his role as The Wire's gay Baltimore stick-up man Omar Little, who robs street-level...
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Posted Saturday 7/03/21 at 2:20AM EDT
Lance Reddick is the best at portraying disgruntled authority figures
"Lance Reddick is the best," says Brian Grubb.
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Posted Wednesday 6/02/21 at 2:37AM EDT
Robert Hogan, Peyton Place star and The Wire actor, dies at 87
Hogan appeared on more than 100 TV series from the 1950s through the 2010s, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show...
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Posted Saturday 5/01/21 at 3:58AM EDT
The Wire actor Chris Clanton suffers minor injury after he was shot in Baltimore
Clanton, who recurred as Avon Barksdale enforcer Savino Bratton, suffered a gunshot wound to the ear Thursday night.
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Posted Thursday 4/22/21 at 1:42PM EDT
Snowfall's Damson Idris on the Season 4 finale: "It was as if I’d scored 70 points for the Lakers"
“That Keyser Soze moment was really special,” Idris tells TVLine.
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Posted Tuesday 4/20/21 at 12:24AM EDT
Michael Hyatt on The Wire vs. Snowfall debate: "Time will tell"
Twitter users debated late last week whether the HBO drama or the FX drama was the superior show.
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Posted Saturday 3/13/21 at 3:24AM EST
Isiah Whitlock Jr.: ‘Twenty years later, I am still dealing with The Wire’
Whitlock has embraced being the “sheeeeeeeeeit” guy from The Wire.
