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Mar 13 2013 04:08 PM ET

'Big Bang Theory' star Kunal Nayyar takes the EW Pop Culture Personality Test at Paleyfest 2013

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Big Bang Theory will hit the stage at PaleyFest tonight, but tonight’s event is also a special one.

It marks the first time a Paley panel will be streamed live from select theaters across the country. (See participating theaters close to you here.) To celebrate the occasion, EW asked Kunal Nayyar to participate in our Pop Culture Personality Test.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Before we start, how are you feeling about being on the big screen?
Kunal Nayyar: At this point I can only speak for myself. It doesn’t make me nervous. If it was just me, and it was all this big stuff, it would probably make me nervous. But having the cast and producers there, [it will] feel like we’re just hanging on set. There’s a kinship and a friendship [among us]. We’re a family, so when we’re all on stage together, it’s just fun and a chance for people to see how we are off-screen.

Well, appropriately, I’ll start off your quiz with a movie-themed question: What was the last movie you saw on the big screen?
Argo. I loved it. I don’t think I’ve met anyone who doesn’t love it. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 4 2013 01:18 PM ET

Wendell Pierce Bunks-out (on Twitter) over the Super Bowl

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Last night’s Super Bowl was the fiercest, darkest sporting event of the year.

Also, for a few brief moments, the Bunk-est.

Actor Wendell Pierce took to Twitter to talk about the big game — and tweeted from the perspective of Bunk, the eye-rolling, good-hearted, foul-mouthed detective he played on HBO’s The Wire (the show that made America fascinated and repulsed by Baltimore institutionalism).

The tweets, which mixed quotes with exclamatory ad-libbing, were a welcome reminder of the show, and a shot to the heart of its fans (like me) who are still trying to get our friends to watch it.

Warning: NSFW for Baltimore-approved language

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Sep 14 2012 01:22 PM ET

'A Game of Ice and Wire': Tumblr mashes up 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Wire'

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Because Game of Thrones and The Wire aren’t awesome enough on their own, there is now a Tumblr dedicated to both.

A Song of Ice and Wire takes quotes from The Wire and adds them to screenshots from various Game of Thrones episodes — and the dialogue lines up surprisingly well.

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Aug 17 2012 12:45 PM ET

'The Wire' creator blasts Romney for tax comments: 'This republic is just about over, isn't it?'

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been dogged by media-gasbag allegations that he hasn’t been paying his taxes — allegations which offer smarmy pop-culture writers the exceedingly rare opportunity to mention Mitt Romney and Lauryn Hill in the same sentence.* Yesterday, Romney responded to those accusations by announcing, “I did go back and look at my taxes, and over the past 10 years I never paid less than 13 percent.” In response, David Simon — creator of fall-of-America portraits like The Wire, Generation Kill, and Treme — took to his blog to announce that he, for one, was not amused. “Can we stand back and pause a short minute,” writes Simon, “to take in the spectacle of a man who wants to be President of The United States, who wants us to seriously regard him as a paragon of the American civic ideal, declaiming proudly and in public that he has paid his taxes at a third of the rate normally associated with gentlemen of his economic benefit.” READ FULL STORY »

Aug 15 2012 05:30 PM ET

How to chat with Marlo Stanfield from 'The Wire'

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If there was one thing that Avon, Stringer, and co. taught us in their run as heads of the Barksdale Drug Organization on HBO’s critically acclaimed series ‘The Wire,’ it was proper cell phone etiquette.

As String once made it clear to D’Angelo (you know, before he ruthlessly ordered a hit on him, R.I.P., D!), that code was quite simple: “no phones.”  Four years after ‘The Wire’ has gone off the air, however, there is one Baltimore drug kingpin who is still willing to talk.

Slate.com has discovered that dialing the digits to Marlo Stanfield’s cell-phone, revealed to all in a hand-to-hand exchange with shady defense lawyer Maury Levy, connects you to an audio recording of the usually subdued Marlo reminding us all what’s in a name.

‘Wire’ fans apparently have Baltimore-Washington Telephone Company (BWTel) employee Justin Newman to thank.  On his website, Newman claims that he set up the voice clip after realizing that Marlo’s personal number, (410) 915-0909, was a working, Baltimore-area line.  (Dating back to the 60s, many TV shows and films have stuck to using fake 555-like numbers to avoid causing prank call hysteria).

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Jul 24 2012 03:22 PM ET

Will the king stay the king?: 'Wire' cast lends President Obama a hand

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The cast of HBO’s classic series The Wire is teaming up to ensure that the king stays the king.

An invitation posted to Barack Obama’s website yesterday informed supporters of the President’s re-election campaign that several stars of David Simon’s critically acclaimed look into the drug-infested streets of Baltimore will help host a fundraising event in Martha’s Vineyard on August 15.

Entry tickets can be purchased for a cool $500, while those looking to serve as part of the host committee will have to cough up $2, 500.

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Jun 5 2012 05:39 PM ET

Omar's back! And he sings! Funny or Die gives 'The Wire' the musical treatment

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With all the movies coming to Broadway lately – from Bring It On to Ghost to Carrie – highly acclaimed TV shows can’t be far behind, right? Consider no TV drama safe from the musical treatment – or at least via Funny or Die videos. The latest from the comedy website turns HBO’s The Wire into a spectacle of song and dance.

Some of the show’s cast members reprise their roles in the video, including Michael Kenneth Williams (brought to the stage with a chorus of “Omar’s coming. Omar’s coming. Omar’s coming!”), Sonja Sohn, Larry Gillard Jr., Andrew Royo and Felicia “Snoop” Pearson. Gillard Jr. returns to a memorable scene from The Wire’s first season, teaching Wallace and Bodie about chess and drug deals with all the subtlety of music and metaphor.

The voiceover declares that you can now “experience The Wire’s realistic portrayal of America’s decaying inner cities through the magic of song!” Plus the magic of dance — there’s even ribbon dancing with prop guns. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 12 2012 03:25 PM ET

'The Walking Dead,' 'The Wire,' and 'True Blood' cast members explain the rules of TV spoilers -- WATCH

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If you’re an avid pop culture junkie (and let’s face it, since you’re visiting EW.com, there’s a pretty good chance you are) then you are all too aware that nearly every aspect of your life is a virtual spoiler minefield. If you’ve surrounded yourself with fellow pop culture junkies (us nerds have to stick together) then you know at any minute, they could beat you to the punch and reveal a gargantuan spoiler about the show you were just getting around to. Spoilers are unavoidable for the television enthusiast: They’re on your Facebook wall, being haphazardly blurted in your office, and often times on your favorite websites. (Sorry! But don’t say we never gave you fair warning.)
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