Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Baltimore anymore.

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The New York Times has a piece up about another famous Ed: Ed Burns, creator of “The Wire” and its predecessor “The Corner”. “The Wire” is possibly my favorite series of all time, combining spectacular writing, a number of knock-your-socks-off performances from relative unknowns like Michael K. Williams and Dominic West, and a biting and gritty sense of reality. It seems that with The Wire’s conclusion after their fifth season, Burns and company are casting their bloody spotlight somewhere else: Iraq. The upcoming “Generation Kill”, if Burns’ previous work is anything to go by, should be spectacular. After the spate of preachy cinematic failures on this subject, a dose of basic storytelling could do wonders for all these PR issues they seem to be having over there.