Wood Harris, who plays Avon on The Wire, interviews and narrates a documentary about the “real” Avon Barksdale. A straight to DVD release, I think it would be cool to learn some history about Barksdale but somehow, he looks and acts too much like a ex-drug addict for me to think he was as hardbody (II) as The Wire’s Avon was. I am interested in hearing your thoughts. (Via)
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Posted on January 5th, 2010
The Wire guru, David Simon, was given the greenlight to create a new series for HBO that will follow the history of the C.I.A. and its impact on politics for the 20th century. Although this has been done in series and movies for awhile, I think we can expect a more profound, impacting view from our favorite ex-Baltimore Sun employee. Also, he plans on doing a 6-part series on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Simon’s current project, Treme, began filming in March. Simon, a fan of New Orleans jazz and the city itself, has Lester and Bunk playing two civil rights attorneys after the tragedy of the levees breaking during Hurricane Katrina. Time to get ready to upgrade my cable again. (Source)
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Posted on May 17th, 2009
Whenever I see Charles Hamilton on the webs or MTV Jams, I can’t help but think he’s hip-hop’s “Dukie”. Am I alone on this?
“Brooklyn Girls” has grown on me over the last few months and the hook really is infectious. I have never heard a rapper whose constipation-flow was so hypnotizing. (Really… he sounds like he raps with a tough one coming out!) But after seeing him online freestyling and hearing his tough childhood of being poor & homeless, I couldn’t stop to think, he’s like “Dukie”. He’s smart, broke, doesn’t fit in, likes computers, wears the same clothes… Maybe its just a physical resemblance. Video after the jump to see what you think.
The question I pose then is, if Charles Hamilton is Duquan; which up and coming rappers are Namond, Michael and Randy? KTL community – share your thoughts.
Snoop has been arrested for failure to cooperate and some minor drug possessions.
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, the actress who played a cold-blooded killer of the same name on the HBO series The Wire, was arrested on minor drug charges yesterday after police picked her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial, records show.
Members of the homicide unit forced entry into the 28-year-old’s Northeast Baltimore home Wednesday morning to serve a “body attachment” warrant, which would allow authorities to detain her, if necessary, until the Sept. 16 murder trial of Steven James Lashley.
Once inside the home, police said, they found two cigars containing suspected marijuana in an upstairs bedroom, and “loose plant material” was recovered from the top of a kitchen cabinet. Pearson was charged with one count of drug possession yesterday and was being held at Central Booking.
Authorities said Pearson watched Lashley stab three men, killing one, after an argument that began outside New York Fried Chicken on The Block in the fall of 2005, and she is expected to be called as a witness during the trial.
