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The "big name" in action adventure writing in the mid-20th century, Alistair MacLean, enjoyed considerable success writing best-sellers that Hollywood often turned into movies, such as The Guns of Navarone and Ice Station Zebra. His very first book, however, has an immediacy and authenticity that his later works do not quite match. He wrote  H.M.S. Ulysses in three months while teaching school, based on his own experi...

Former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon teamed up with former Baltimore Police Department Homicide Detective Ed Burns to create a police procedural series that looks at both police and criminals and everyone caught in between. Simon and Burns also chose to employ former criminals and police detectives who grew up in Baltimore as actors in this series. Of special note: the 4th season breaks with the preceding three to foc...

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Showcasing a guilty pleasure from the turn of the century. Show creator Joss Whedon wondered why horror movies always had to make teenage girls into victims. He created a new mythology for the vampire genre involving a supernaturally strong and capable teenager who, with training and support from her “watcher,” can do battle with vampires and other demons. Buffy the Vampir...