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...know that episode of the HBO show “The Wire” where Avon Barksdale says to Marlo Stanfield, “It’s all in the game” to describe the complications and stresses inherent in being a kingpin in the Baltimore drug trade? If you have no idea what the crap I’m talking about, The Wire, aka the sweetest show ever, is about crime and policing in the age of post-industrial urban decay, and the characters traditionally say “all in the game” to describe...
...Ricky Gervais as comic influences. What is it about them? How would you characterize your particular comedy? I really like just super dry comedy. Obviously Ricky Gervais is the master of that, that's why I use that reference. Right now, that show Eastbound & Down by Jody Hill on HBO I think is genius. I like comedy that makes you cringe because it's uncomfortable, but at the same time you're laughing your ass off. (Read a Q&A with Eastbound & Down's Danny McBride...
...because they can see his talent, his dedication, his grace and his class. The grip he holds over the Philippines is similar to Nelson Mandela's influence in South Africa. I can surely see Manny becoming the Philippine President one day." - Lennox Lewis, former world heavyweight champion and HBO sports commentator in the 2009 TIME...
...Anne Waters who recently moved back after five years in Chicago. One of the draws? "Everything costs less here," she says. Constas bought a three-unit house and rents out two of the flats to visiting crew members. She even made some extra money when the director of an HBO pilot set some scenes in her apartment. But she says Michigan's appeal as a location goes beyond the dollar value. "It can double for almost anything. You can make one of the lakes look like an ocean. You can do rural. You can do gritty urban." (In Betty Anne...
That said, The Mentalist works because it's such an elegant example of its kind; if it's comfort food, it's prime-grade meat loaf. Much credit goes to the sly scripts, overseen by Bruno Heller (HBO's Rome), which take the viewer to familiar places by clever routes, providing a jocular corrective to the relentless noir gore of CSI et al. The mysteries are engaging but not byzantine; you can probably figure out the culprit just a step before Jane does. And who doesn't want a handsome man to make him or her feel smart...