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David Simon

David Simon is an award-winning journalist, author and television producer known for "The Wire," "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The Corner" and the books that inspired those shows. The former Baltimore Sun crime reporter took a leave of absence to spend a year inside the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit for his book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," which was released in 1991....  Show more »
David Simon is an award-winning journalist, author and television producer known for "The Wire," "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "The Corner" and the books that inspired those shows. The former Baltimore Sun crime reporter took a leave of absence to spend a year inside the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit for his book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," which was released in 1991. The book won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book and became the inspiration for the television show "Homicide: Life on the Street." He followed that up with "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" with retired Baltimore police detective Edward Burns. The New York Times Notable Book of the Year looks at an open-air drug market in the city. Simon turned the book into the miniseries "The Corner" for HBO. In 2002, Simon's relationship with HBO continued with the release of his series "The Wire," a gritty urban drama about the Baltimore drug scene. Simon serves as, creator, writer and executive producer of the show. Shot and set in Baltimore, "The Wire" has been nominated for Emmys and won a Peabody Award in 2004. The show airs its fifth and final season in 2008. Simon and Burns have teamed up again for their next HBO project, "Generation Kill." Based on a book by Evan Wright, "Generation Kill" will be a seven-hour miniseries about the early days of the war in Iraq. It is slated to premiere in 2008. In addition to providing jobs and bringing money into the local economy through "The Wire," Simon and Burns created The Ella Thompson Fund, which supports recreation and education programs for West Baltimore youth. Simon grew up in Washington and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park.  « Show less

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    May 25, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. David Lazarus: The joy of making $43,963.64 an hour [Video]

    Investors are still asking what Facebook is really worth. But a more apt question might be: What's the average CEO worth?
    Investors are still asking what Facebook is really worth. But a more apt question might be: What's the average CEO worth? The head of a typical public company pocketed $9.6 million in compensation last year, according to some number crunching from the...

    Tags: CEO Pay, Career and Workplace, Employees, Corporate Officers

  2. May 25, 2012 |Story| AP Member Choice Complete
  3. Typical CEO made $9.6 million last year, study finds

    Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for chief executives.
    Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for chief executives. The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011, according to an analysis using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm. That was up...

    Tags: Companies and Corporations, Bank of America Corp., Corporate Performance, Shareholders, Philippe P. Dauman

  4. Apr 25, 2012 | Los Angeles Times
  5. 'Treme' creator David Simon starts bloging

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    David Simon, creator of "The Wire" and "Treme," has started blogging on his own website, davidsimon.com. David Simon has been reluctant to blog before, but relishes the chance to speak directly to the public....
  6. Feb 21, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Mardi Gras music: A New Orleans playlist for the rest of us

    It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Bloody Marys are being downed before breakfast. Bands are on the march, revelers on the revel. Nobody’s at work but the cops and the jailers down at Central Lockup, waiting for this year’s crop of...

    Tags: Circuses, Music, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Music Industry

  8. Nov 10, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  9. Dave Eggers and Robert Pinsky feted by PEN Center USA

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    One minute people were milling around the silent auction with pre-event drinks, the next author Robert Pinsky was getting a laurel wreath on his head with his lifetime achievement award and reading a Czesław Miłosz poem to send us on our way...
  10. Nov 23, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  11. Anthony Bourdain dishes on 'The Layover' and life as a TV foodie

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    Anthony Bourdain, the chef-turned-writer-turned-gonzo-television host, has judged “Top Chef,” hosted “No Reservations” and written for “Treme.” He talked over lunch in New York (sausage baguette and beer) and later...
  12. Sep 7, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  13. PEN Center USA 2011 awards to feature Dave Eggers, Robert Pinksy

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    The 2011 PEN Center USA award winners include Father Gregory Boyle. Dave Eggers and Robert Pinsky will be special honorees at the November awards dinner....
  14. Jul 14, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  15. Tweeter's Digest: TV folks tweet about the 2011 Emmy nominations

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    Emmy nominations 2011: Celebrities react to the Emmy news in Tweeters Digest...
  16. May 8, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Critic's Notebook: 'Treme's' collection of beautiful moments

    Every city has its own singular character — just ask Minneapolis about St. Paul — but there is perhaps no American city as singularly singular, as stubbornly exotic, as attached to its difference as New Orleans, that funky little cosmopolis set down in a bowl between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. A blighted town with a tourist economy, stuck in time and outside of time, conservative and anarchic, vulnerable and violent, it is the City That Care Forgot but sometimes also the City That Forgets to Care.
    Every city has its own singular character — just ask Minneapolis about St. Paul — but there is perhaps no American city as singularly singular, as stubbornly exotic, as attached to its difference as New Orleans, that funky little cosmopolis...

    Tags: HBO (tv network), John Goodman, Treme (tv program), Wendell Pierce, Kim Dickens

  18. Sep 28, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  19. Is David Simon a genius? Creator of 'The Wire' talks about winning a MacArthur Fellowship

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    Proof that television makes you smarter: David Simon, the rabble-rousing creator of "The Wire" and "Treme," just won the "genius grant." This morning, the MacArthur Foundation announced that it had awarded a fellowship to Simon, who shares the honor with....
  20. Sep 27, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  21. Writer Yiyun Li named MacArthur "genius" Fellow

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    Author Yiyun Li is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, it was announced today. Li, who lives in northern California and is an assistant professor at UC Davis, was giddy when The Times reached her by phone. What will the fellowship mean......
  22. Mar 10, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  23. Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson, actress in 'The Wire,' arrested in Baltimore drug raid [Updated]

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    In an ironic twist of truth imitating fiction, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who gained acclaim for her portrayal of a ruthless drug assassin in HBO's landmark series "The Wire," was arrested Thursday in Baltimore during a drug raid by police. The......
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