John Waters: "You know the Governor hates The Wire he really hated the show... thought it made Baltimore look bad. I told him I've seen maps in Japan that people have of the worst corner in Baltimore. You know not everyone likes tall ships. I hate the tall ships."
I am studying for my Masters of United States Studies at Sydney University. I have chosen Baltimore Maryland for The American City course.
Famous Baltimoreans
Anne Tyler; Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Babe Ruth; baseball player for New York Yankees
Barry Levinson; screenwriter, director and producer film and television
David Simon; journalist for Baltimore Sun, author, television writer, producer, creator.
Edgar Allan Poe; poet and short story writer
H. L. Mencken; journalist and author
John Waters; filmmaker
Michael S. Steele; former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, first African American chairman of the Republican National Committee
Thurgood Marshall; first African American Supreme Court Justice
Films and TV representations of Baltimore
Hairspray
Homicide Life on the Streets
Pink Flamingos
Sleepless in Seattle
The Corner
The Wire
Twelve Monkeys
Literary representations of Baltimore
Back When We Were Grownups: Anne Tyler (2001)
Homicide, A Year on the Killing Streets: David Simon (1991)
Saint Maybe: Anne Tyler (1991)
The Accidental Tourist: Anne Tyler (1985)
The Corner A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood: David Simon & Edward Burns (1997)
Quotes from Homicide Life on the Streets about Baltimore
Pembleton: "[Mary's] never liked Baltimore. She always considered it to be a sleepy little Southern hamlet struggling to be a world class city." Therapist: "Is she right?" Pembleton: "Baltimore is a brown town, full of brown people, run by brown people. I know Baltimore. Baltimore is in my blood." Conversation between Pembleton and a marriage counsellor: Valentine's Day. (14 February 1997)
Bayliss: "Oh Billy Town eh? What a magical place this is!" Felton: "Tim there are no hillbillies pitching tents and cooking up possum stew here, so don't call it Billy Town. This is South Bawlamer.'' Bayliss: "I've heard you call it that before." Felton: "That's different I'm from here." Conversation between Tim Bayliss and Beau Felton: The Old and the Dead. (3 March 1995)
"I love Baltimore. It's the northern most southern city; friendly and gracious like Dixie but liberally conservative like any good WASP enclave." Congressman Wade to Detective Pembleton: Cradle to Grave. (13 January 1995)
