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Jul 30, 2012

“From Beautiful Pond To A Ghetto”: Tom Fontana’s Walking Tour Of Gritty Five Points

Known for groundbreaking television like Homicide: Life On The Streets and OZ, acclaimed writer-producer Tom Fontana has, with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson, now developed a crime show about his own hometown, New York City. Of course, Fontana’s and Levinson’s approach in BBC America’s COPPER is to look at the Big Apple in the real bad old days—the 1860s, when it was a given that crooks ran wild and the government was corrupt—how things change….

 
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