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Jamie Hector on Playing Marlo on The Wire and Keeping Secrets About Heroes

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2008-01-03 16:30:26 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo Stanfield, weighed in about the new season, moonlighting on Heroes , and how a soft-spoken nice guy goes about playing one of the most ruthless characters on TV So, what can you tell us about the new season of The Wire For starters, its gonna be about you guys [the press]. And Marlo is also going to be the center of attention in that...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Wire: Burrell Bites the Dust; McNulty Takes a Bite Out of Crime

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2008-01-28 11:15:07 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo and Chris. Happily, we learn of a previously unknown connection between these two once-savvy players of the game: "Ervin was a year before me at Dunbar," Prop Joe tells Herc as the two read the newspaper in lawyer Maurice Levy's office. And what is Joe's memory of the commissioner in his high-school days? "He was in the glee club. Stone...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Wire: Lester Freamon's in the Mood for Love

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2008-03-03 14:30:13 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo gets pulled in on a conspiracy charge. (Freamon makes a big show of picking up Marlo's phone, then picking up the clock Marlo's been taking pictures of, we guess to pretend like he's just figuring it all out.) That night, Carcetti desperate for good news on the crime front is ebullient ("We did not give up on this investigation," he...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Wire: Omar Is Superman

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2008-02-04 11:00:42 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo's three steps ahead of him The ambush that kills Donnie, and seemingly doesn't kill Omar, is well laid: Chris tells his family he's heading out of town for work, then camps along with Snoop and Michael in the condo of Marlo's lieutenant Monk for a couple of days until Omar, sure he's worked out Monk's schedule, comes in, guns a-blazin'....
 
 
 
 
 
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The Wire: McNulty Finds His Hamsterdam

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2008-01-14 10:35:01 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo investigation, his anger when the Feds demur, and his impotent rage at getting stuck with a dispatch car with a flat tire. By the time McNulty disembarks the city bus outside the abandoned house inside which the body rests, we've been primed to expect some kind of snap. But cramming the kind of character development that The Wire...
 
 
 
 
 
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Proposition Joe, East Baltimore Drug Kingpin, Is Dead

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2008-01-28 09:50:33 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo Stanfield and his lieutenant Chris Partlow. Prop Joe's exact age was unknown, but he was thought to be in his late fifties Joe's credo, followed from an early age, was simple: "You cross me, I'm a snake," he told an elementary-school classmate in 1962 . "But on a straight-up proposition, with a handshake? My word is my bond." Joe's...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Wire: Jimmy McNulty Adds to His Rap Sheet

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2008-02-11 11:45:32 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo to get it right: At the beginning of last night's episode, taking a long look up at the balcony from which Omar escaped, he intones, "That's some Spider-Man shit there." And that's what Omar is: the homicidal, trench-coat-wearing, shotgun-wielding, black, gay Spider-Man Or maybe he's the Punisher, because he sure is meting out some...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Wire: Goodnight Moon

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2008-02-19 09:25:48 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo's digital photos; they're of clocks, reading different times, a code Freamon is unable to crack. Meanwhile, McNulty's playing Santa Claus at the station, bleeding his serial-killer budget to help his fellow detectives get the extra man power and supplies they need to crack their cases. "Get me out of this, Lester," McNulty begs. "As...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Wire: Jimmy McNulty Gets Profiled

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2008-02-26 10:15:26 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Marlo running the other, Stanfield drugs have completely flooded the city. He may not get a chance to act on his discovery, though, because Kima has found out about the fake serial killer, and she is pissed That's not the only thing going wrong with McNulty's worst idea ever. He's getting shaken down by cops for company cars to drive to...