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...doesn't look like the usual Mexican telenovela, packed with scantily clad girls, dashing macho men and unceasing melodrama. And there's a lot more about Capadocia, HBO's first attempt to crack the Mexican market, that sets it apart from any other Latin American TV production. Shot on 400,000 feet of film, with three movie directors and 300 actors, it is probably the most expensive TV series ever made south of the Rio Grande. HBO executives wouldn't release the exact cost, but said that one episode of Capadocia costs about the same as 250 episodes...
DIED Over a peripatetic 40-year career, he appeared in more than 100 TV shows, with small parts in hits such as Beverly Hills, 90210; L.A. Law; and hbo's Six Feet Under. But Stanley Kamel will probably be remembered best for his regular role as devoted but put-upon psychiatrist to Tony Shalhoub's obsessive-compulsive detective in Monk, in its seventh season this summer. "I have what every actor dreams of: a hook," he told TV Guide last year. "I'm the psychiatrist on Monk. Everyone knows who that is." He suffered a heart attack...
...about the excitement of ideas or the unreality of words,” Kushner said. “He is a wonderful writer. You don’t hear what it is he’s trying to say.” The former medieval studies major praised the HBO police drama “The Wire,” which he called “the greatest television ever,” for melding Finnegans Wake-like sophistication with social engagement. “When is television ever that difficult?” he asked. English professor and director...
...Wire’ is a world where people are worth less. People are commodities. Capitalism has been the god,” David Simon said on Friday. These qualities sum up his hit HBO show “The Wire,” a chronicle of American city life set in Baltimore and, in particular, the open-air drug markets of the its most impoverished areas. At the Institue of Politics, Simon and his co-panelists discussed about the true-to-life themes of the show, including urban violence and the deterioration of inner-city schools, as experts from academia...
...Crimson recently sat down with actor Jim True-Frost, whose acclaimed television series “The Wire” recently aired its final episode on HBO. True-Frost, who lives in Cambridge, also starred in the American Repertory Theatre’s production of “Julius Caesar.”The Harvard Crimson: Let’s talk about “The Wire” first. What was it like working in a setting like Baltimore?Jim True-Frost: We got a lot of support in Baltimore. The locals were very happy to see us. They...