Word: write
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...research into what it means to be a black man in Baltimore. I wanted Omar to look, sound and feel like someone who was born and raised in Baltimore - not a New York kid trying to portray that. So I had to learn the Baltimore dialects so the writing could sound authentic. They'd write things like "Do tell?" and "How do?" We don't talk like that in Brooklyn. I thought, What does that mean? "Do tell?" That's not gangster. But in Baltimore...
...TIME's write-up of The Wire on the top 10 TV shows...
...said she was inspired to write her memoir—which was published last month—after she came across her great-grandfather’s cane, which she had seen in family photographs her whole life...
Translation: she didn't write the e-mail, but she sent it. So yes, she approved of its contents...
...compete for a chance to represent their country in the final - and become the next Beyoncé. But while there is real singing talent on display, the competition is also a reminder - doused in glitter - of the everyday struggles of growing up. "The kids have to write their own lyrics, so it offers a really good window into childhood," says filmmaker Jamie Jay Johnson, who chronicled the 2007 contest in his documentary Sounds Like Teen Spirit. "The songs have been about everything from romance to pimples to period pain." (See the Top 10 Eurovision Controversies...