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By Salon staff [2008-02-11]
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  • Omar's boyfriend

    He's Puerto Rican. That scene where Omar finds out about Butchie's death was shot in Old San Juan's La Perla, a poor neighborhood complete with ocean views and a West Baltimore-like street drug market.

    -- mere_mortal
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    Wednesday, February 13, 2008 07:44 AM

  • spidey and cell phones

    I have two questions. First, what are we to make of Omar's jump? Either he jumped to the ground and crawled away or swung into a balcony. Both options are equally outrageous. So is Simon having fun and winking at us with this "serious Spiderman shit" or will more details of the escape be revealed?

    Second, the cell phone scam confuses me. At the newspaper meeting, McNulty lied and said he received a call from the same pay phone as the reporter. So the pay phone should be bugged. But the number he gave to the DA was for a cell phone, right? So wouldn't this ruse run a huge risk of discovery? Or did he give the pay phone number to the DA as a cover, but had Freamon listen on the cell phone?

    -- hallo_world
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    Wednesday, February 13, 2008 08:53 AM

  • Renaldo

    For what it's worth, I play basketball in the E. Village with Ramon, the actor who plays Omar's boyfriend; noted playwright Adam Rapp also plays there. OK, I'm bragging. Anyway, I love that someone else noticed Cheese and Randy both have the name Wagstaff. Something's gotta come of that, even if it isn't the happy scenario of a Prop Joe inheritance.

    ****But if anyone was watching the Clemens/McNemee hearings, one of the congressmen on the panel said that people should feel more responsible for coming forth about drugs so there aren't more incidents like the one in Baltimore where the family's home was firebombed for being snitches?****

    Anyway, I'm concerned they'll do a replay of the Stringer thing where Greggs and the Bunk put together a case against Marlo that gets short-circuited by him gettin' got in the street. I'm further concerned that with all of Omar's talk about heart, the writers will be too tempted to have Marlo found with a gaping hole in his chest where his evil ticker used to be.

    -- Q-Comp
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    Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:59 AM

  • symmetry

    In our house we're hoping the fabulist will wind up getting his comeuppance on an article he's actually producing in good faith - because the source is BSing him.

    -- DavidJB
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    Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:59 PM

  • BS source

    And of course that BS source is McNulty.

    -- Darth Grabass
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    Wednesday, February 13, 2008 04:58 PM

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