Francofile
March, 2016
The Wire creator David Simon talks about the birth of the sex industry, the failure of the drug war, the role of journalism and meeting President Obama JAMES FRANCO: Your new HBO miniseries, The Deuce, is set in New York's old 42nd Street, when it was full of strip clubs, prostitutes and pimps. What attracted you to that world? DAVID SIMON: We're trying to capture an extraordinary demimonde that sprang up in the middle of one of America's greatest cities. It had almost no precedent in terms of...
