Anthony Bourdain hoodwinked writer David Simon into sitting down for a CNN segment with the promise of a cronut, New York's most in-demand food trend. Sadly, that cronut never materialized, and now Simon wants his just desserts: "Tony Bourdain, you lying sonofabitch, you owe me a motherfucking cronut."
Television producer David Simon, who made his bones fictionalizing the foibles, corruption, and inescapable humanity of the City of Baltimore's public servants, has complete and unalloyed faith in the NSA's pure intentions in hoovering your telephone data until someone proves otherwise.
David Simon Mocks Mitt Romney for Proudly Admitting He Pays At Least 13 Percent in Taxes
Earlier today, Mitt Romney made a big deal out of telling everyone that he's, "never paid less than 13 percent" in taxes. And, of course, he still won't provide his tax returns, so we'll just have to trust him, okay?
Magazine Industry: Falling, but Then Rising!
In your tremulous Tuesday media column: hard times ahead for magazines, the WSJ is batting .500, David Simon is (reasonably) touchy, investigative reporting may survive, and Weiner/ hole information.
Attorney General Orders HBO to Make More Episodes of The Wire
Like most people, we miss HBO's fantastic cop show The Wire a great deal. So we were heartened to hear that Attorney General Eric Holder has put the full weight of the Justice Department behind our cause:
Corrections: Wire Creator Not Actually Optimistic At All
On Saturday, The Washington Post ran an item on a college class about HBO's The Wire. "There is nothing that makes me more optimistic about the future of the country," Wire creator David Simon reportedly said. Which is almost right.
The Wire Creator Awarded MacArthur 'Genius' Grant
David Simon, creator of The Wire, was among 23 recipients of the $500,000 MacArthur "Genius" grant. Clearly the MacArthur committee spent all last week watching The Wire instead of choosing geniuses and did this to justify their procrastination.
Long Live Treme
Last night was the premiere of Treme, the new show from The Wire's David Simon set in post-Katrina New Orleans. With all the artsy, smarty expectations placed on the project, how'd it fare? Well, pretty darn well.
If The Treme Trailer Doesn't Excite You, You Probably Hate TV
The first full-length trailer for HBO's Treme, David Simon's second TV show after The Wire, features John Goodman, takes place in post-Katrina New Orleans, focuses on jazz, and looks like a can't miss. We. Cannot. Wait.
Treme's Gloomy New Teaser Trailer
HBO released a teaser this week for David Simon's latest, Treme. This teaser features "the sounds of New Orleans" and doesn't give away much info about the show. Dedicated fans of The Wire, are you excited for this or not?
The Avon Barksdale Story is Like a Real, Unintentionally Hilarious Version of The Wire
Remember Avon Barksdale from The Wire? He was west Baltimore's drug kingpin, played by Wood Harris. He was not to be messed with, because he would have your ass killed. Well this is his real story, shorty.
Charles Gibson Retires, Diane Sawyer Replaces Him
• Charlie Gibson is retiring as anchor of ABC's World News Tonight at the end of the year; he'll be replaced by Diane Sawyer, who is stepping down as anchor of Good Morning America to take the job. And now Brian Williams will soon be the only man anchoring a nightly network newscast. [NYP]
• The 66th installment of…
You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
Rupert Murdoch announced plans yesterday to charge for online access to all of News Corp's media properties. Coincidentally, the company posted a $203 million loss for its fourth quarter, down from a profit of $1.1 billion from the same period last year.
David Simon Still Dead-Wrong, Now Encouraging Newspapers to Commit Federal Crimes
Back in May David Simon, creator of The Wire, asked lawmakers to relax the nation's anti-trust laws so newspaper owners could get away with collusion. Now he's telling the New York Times and Washington Post to flout the laws completely.
Layoffs at Men's Health and Women's Health?
In your blizzardy Monday media column: rumored layoffs at Men's Health, David Simon is righteously angry again, Ladies Home Journal's integrity—its most valuable asset, next to yarn—is questioned, and more!
'Wire' Creator Proud of New HBO Miniseries, No Matter Who Wrote it
From the creator of The Wire! Sort of! The Iraq miniseries Generation Kill premieres this weekend on HBO, with do-no-wrong David Simon linked as co-writer/executive producer of the seven-part event. The LA Times had a look and seems to have liked it fine, despite the fingerprints of journalist and source author Evan…
The Wire's David Simon To Further Depress Us With New Iraq War Series
In one month's time, David Simon will (hopefully) dazzle and depress us all over again. The mastermind behind The Wire, HBO's stunning and somber study of urban decay, has created a seven-part miniseries called Generation Kill, once again for HBO. The series, based on the Evan Wright book, depicts a group of Marines…
The Coda
The Wire will never die, as long as die-hard followers like Culture Vulture still remember. Here, from the New York Magazine blog, is a wonderfully geeky frame-by-frame analysis of the final montage from David Simon's crime and corruption drama.
The Hubris of David Simon
Credit where it is due: after a mid-season wobble, which shook my devotion to the foundation, The Wire has come together for the conclusion. David Simon's incredibly ambitious drama of crime and corruption in a decaying Baltimore has been compared by Slate's Jacob Weisberg, among others, to the sprawling novels of the…
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