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Wire actor spotting update

- Gus’ boss (The Sun editor) in a Holiday Inn ad.
- Levy in an Arby’s ad (lots of airplay on Discovery)

Oh boy this is my favorite game. Almost every actor on The Wire is an unfamiliar face, and the characters are so real that it’s usually startling to see them outside of Baltimore.

- I’ve recently seen Bunny Colvin in three random movies on TV. He’s in That Thing You Do (very briefly as a jazz musician), Volcano (as a lab technician in the begining, I only watched the first five minutes I swear), and Face/Off (as the guy who tells Sean Archer about the face switching plan, then gets burned alive by Castor Troy. Also burned alive in that scene - Claudette from The Shield. But let’s stay on topic).

- Also appearing in Face/Off - Frank Sobatka as prison inmate who gets his brain scrambled in their chair torture device thingy, then helps Nicholas Cage escape.

- Scott Templeton shows up in the Baby Mama trailer (via Ricky, who actually emailed me about this)

- Daniels is now on Lost (duh).

- Omar was on the season premeire of Human Giant. You can watch it here.

- Burrell is on the poster for the new Tyler Perry movie, Meet the Browns. Stringer Bell actually starred in Perry’s last movie, Daddy’s Little Girls. I almost wanted to see it to see a romantic comedy starring Stringer.

- I posted about this back in my Blogspot days, but Bunk is in Hackers. He played the bumbling FBI agent who doesn’t believe the hackers. But don’t take my word for it! Someone posted Hackers, in it’s entirety, over 11 parts on YouTube. Bunk pops up at 6:30 in part 10. Hack the planet!

- Literally everyone that was ever on The Wire has also been on Law & Order.

I’d love to here more, but remember that using IMDb and/or Wikipedia is cheating.