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The Wire, 10 years on: 'We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead', The Wire
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Wendell Pierce Steps Into 'Death of a Salesman' - The New York Times
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Art We Saw This Spring - The New York Times
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The Wire' 20 Years Later: How Does “The Greatest Television Show Ever” Hold Up?
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The Wire' 20 Years Later: How Does “The Greatest Television Show Ever” Hold Up?
How 'The Wire' Shook-Up US Television by Portraying the Death of the American Dream
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True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him
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Norm Macdonald Had His Own Kind of Honesty - The New York Times
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The Wire' 20 Years Later: How Does “The Greatest Television Show Ever” Hold Up?
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Who Destroyed Live? Alt-Rock Band Torn Apart By Drama, Crime, Lawsuits
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David Simon - Wikipedia