Attorney General orders more episodes of the “The Wire”, or a movie
Sometimes government officials draw fire for potentially overstepping their authority — but Attorney General Eric Holder will probably get some praise for ordering the writers of the critically-acclaimed television series HBO “The Wire” to come up with more episodes or a movie.
The gritty fictional series, which ran five seasons on HBO, showed the raw side of Baltimore as it endured hundreds of murders annually and a rampant drug scene. The show focused on the cash-strapped city police trying to root out crime as well as the drug dealers fighting for turf, using children to run their corners and the related effects on the city.
On Tuesday three of the actors, Wendell Pierce (“Bunk”), Sonja Sohn (“Kima”) and Jim True-Frost (“Prez”), dropped by the Justice Department to join Holder in trying to draw attention to the issue of protecting children from drug abuse and exploitation.
But Holder could not resist a plea — well really an order — to the writers David Simon and Ed Burns for more.
“I want to speak directly to Mr. Burns and Mr. Simon: Do another season of ‘The Wire’,” Holder said, drawing laughter and applause from the audience. “That’s actually at a minimum. … If you don’t do a season, do a movie. We’ve done HBO movies, this is a series that deserves a movie. I want another season or I want a movie. I have a lot of power Mr. Burns and Mr. Simon.”
Wendell “Bunk” Pierce, who is now on the latest HBO hit “Treme”, chimed in with a “hear hear.”
Hanks vists “poor slobs” in White House press corps
Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg paid a surprise visit to the White House press corps on Thursday after being hosted by President Barack Obama.
Hanks was keen to check up on an espresso machine he gave the journalists years ago.
“You know, you’re supposed to clean this after every use,” Hanks chided after inspecting the machine, a much-loved and well-used article by reporters cooped up in the press center.
The Hollywood pair earlier attended a White House preview of HBO’s new World War Two series “The Pacific” and then nipped across to the West Wing to check out Hanks’ gift — something Spielberg said he had to see with his own eyes to believe.
“How is it holding up? Do you need another one?” Hanks asked the reporters. “I’m going to get you another espresso machine … Let me see what I can do for the poor slobs of the Fourth Estate here,” he said.
The machine, a Pony Espresso Model T, retails for $1,550.
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Jason Reed (Hanks and Spielberg in Washington)
Tom Hanks is amazing but i feel he should stick to show biz.
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Dear Eric Holder, go swive yourself. You love The Wire but you won’t get behind the Global Commission on Drug Policy’s recommendation that the United States drastically shift our approach on the completely failed, propaganda based and counterproductive War on Drugs that has cost American tax payers trillions of dollars. I guess if we stop this senseless hypocrisy of raiding law abiding citizen’s homes and crowding our prison’s with persons who choose to get a buzz smoking marijuana instead of drinking whiskey (34,000 people die from drunk driving every year in the U.S., btw) then you won’t get to see the drug dealing gang-bangers shooting each other up in the inner-city of Baltimore in your new season of The Wire, huh? Anyhow, like I said, you inconsistent sellout twit go swive yourself until you can’t feel anything up there where the sun don’t shine. And be sure to give Gil Kerlikowske something long and thick so he can do the same. No reason why you should be the only sell-out half-wit knuckledragging bobblehead to get the appropriate treatment for sticking good people in prison on behalf of prison corporations, alcohol producers and pharmaceutical companies.