The Wire’s David Simon Hates Bud Selig

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The Wire’s David Simon Hates Bud Selig
FanIQ Blog found this 7/7/2008 on thebiglead.com [flag]
The Washington Times recently caught up with the brilliant - and often irascible - David Simon, who created what is widely considered by critics to be one of the most socially relevant and devastatingly accurate TV show in recent years, The Wire. ( A distant fifth: Growing Pains. ) Once, when Simon attempted to film a scene at Baltimore’s Camden Yards, the most loathsome commissioner ... [link]

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