UPDATED:
Wire cast campaigns for Obama, via Spackerman.
RALEIGH— Tomorrow, members of the cast of the Peabody Award-winning drama series, The Wire will attend a Backyard Brunch for Barack in Raleigh. Seven of the show’s cast members will visit the Tarheel State in support of the change Barack Obama will bring across the country and in North Carolina.
Chad Coleman who plays Dennis “Cutty” Wise, Deidre Lovejoy who plays Rhonda Pearlman, Jamie Hector who plays Marlo Stanfield, Clarke Peters who plays Detective Lester Freamon, Sonja Sohn who plays Detective Shakima “Kima” Greggs, Seth Gilliam who plays Sergeant Ellis Carver, and Gbenga Akinnagbe who plays Chris Partlow will all appear at the backyard brunch on Sunday.
On Monday, Chad Coleman, Deidre Lovejoy, and Jamie Hector will visit UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University to encourage students to vote early. Early voting in North Carolina started October 16 and November 1 is the last day voters may take advantage of early voting.
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21 comments
October 27, 2008 at 4:38 pm
tom
According to Slate, The Wire is Barack Obama’s favorite show. Which, I must say, is absolutely amazingly awesome.
I don’t want to imply that a person’s television habits predict how they’ll govern, but seriously….The Wire. That can only be good news.
October 27, 2008 at 6:28 pm
urbino
I’d love to go to that BB4B.
October 27, 2008 at 9:56 pm
butchrebel
Agreed!
October 28, 2008 at 12:32 am
belle waring
when lester freamon supports you, you know you’re right.
October 28, 2008 at 7:00 am
Ben Alpers
What tom said re: Obama and The Wire. When this was first reported, it was one of the things that really impressed me about Obama. His politics are far too centrist for my tastes, but everything I can tell about his temperament and quality of mind really impress me. His tv-watching habits are just one aspect of that larger picture.
October 28, 2008 at 7:32 am
Cosma
Is anyone else imagining “Get disappointed by someone new” bumper-stickers for Carcetti?
October 28, 2008 at 11:05 am
ben wolfson
The link is broken, you know.
October 28, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Alison
Not only is Obama’s favorite show is The Wire, but Omar is his favorite character. Nice.
October 28, 2008 at 1:14 pm
PGD
On the other hand, I doubt there are really a lot of undecided voters among the Wire-loving hipster segment.
October 28, 2008 at 1:21 pm
andrew
It depends on whether undecided means undecided between McCain and Obama, or undecided about voting at all. Anyway, not everything has to be aimed at the undecided.
October 28, 2008 at 1:27 pm
oudemia
Speaking of the “Get Disappointed by Someone New” sticker, one is headlining the Reason blog right now. Damned property scofflaws over there.
October 28, 2008 at 1:31 pm
ari
At this point, I think it’s safe to say there are very few undecided voters at all. Instead, there are still some people who claim to be undecided.
October 28, 2008 at 1:34 pm
ari
And really, even if there are truly undecided voters lurking out there, I still think andrew is correct: I’m no more willing to be held captive by these people’s fecklessness than I am by the rump of white Southern Democrats still clinging to the illusion that they hold power in the party.
October 28, 2008 at 8:31 pm
PGD
His politics are far too centrist for my tastes, but everything I can tell about his temperament and quality of mind really impress me.
True for me too. On the other hand, I disapprove of people who have Omar as their favorite wire character. He always seemed like a romantic superhero fantasy, compared to all these other characters who were so marked by particularity and human imperfection. I was about to name some alternative favorites, starting with Stringer Bell, but then I realized I couldn’t even pick a favorite character. How do you define favorite — the deepest, the richest, the best written, the most illuminating, the one you felt the most affection for? God, what a fucking amazing show. Omar was my LEAST favorite character, and that’s not even an insult given the competition.
I really liked the city desk editor in the last season.
October 28, 2008 at 8:35 pm
dana
I would have liked Gus if they didn’t give him so many speeches.
October 28, 2008 at 8:37 pm
urbino
It was probably inevitable, since he was the stand-in character for David Simon. Still, I thought Clark Johnson handled it with aplomb.
October 28, 2008 at 8:41 pm
dana
Oh, not a criticism of the actor. But he was a very obvious stand-in, and one of the show’s great strengths was that it had avoided that particular kind of character. I think Gus would have been better had they had a couple extra episodes to develop him without the speeches.
I think my favorite character is either Stringer, Colvin, or Sobotka.
October 28, 2008 at 9:42 pm
ben wolfson
I would like to imagine that dana has a determinate favorite character whom she can identify only by a definite description, so that she is unaware which of the three characters she names is her favorite.
October 28, 2008 at 10:01 pm
urbino
Even though “PGD” are the first, middle, and final consonants in the name of my hometown, and I therefore fear him/her as the fangsome specter of impending doom, my fave is probably Omar or Bubbles.
Or Rhonda. I admit it: I love a hot lawyer.
October 29, 2008 at 2:26 am
andrew
David Simon is supposed to be on Colbert Wednesday (tonight) (according to my cable company’s listings).
Also, Wallace was one of my favorites.
October 29, 2008 at 8:13 pm
urbino
And Prop Joe. And Slim Charles. And Bodie.