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The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) by David Simon and Ed Burns, and adapted for television by David Simon and David Mills. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000, and concluded its six-part run on May 21, 2000.
Simon credits his editor John Sterling with the suggestion that he observe a single corner in Baltimore. Simon believes Sterling was expecting a neighborhood story but he knew that "the corner" also had connotations for Baltimore's open-air drug markets. [2] He took a second leave of absence from the Baltimore Sun in 1993 to research the project.
The Corner Bar is an American television sitcom that aired as a summer-replacement series on ABC from June 21, 1972, to September 7, 1973. The show, created by comedian Alan King and veteran comedy writer Herb Sargent, was co-produced by King and comedian Howard Morris. The center of activity is a New York City tavern called Grant's Toomb . The ...
"The Corner" is the second single released by rapper Common on his sixth album, Be. It features a chorus and production by Kanye West as well as spoken word lyrics by The Last Poets . The song's lyrics deal with street corners in poor neighborhoods.
The Corner that Held Them is a novel by English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, first published in 1948. It details the life of and lives inside a convent, from its establishment in the 12th century through to 1382. The plot involves the Black Death and multiple narratives that do not combine into a plot.
The Old Man in the Corner was featured in a series of twelve British two-reel silent films, made by Stoll Pictures in 1924, written and directed by Hugh Croise and starring Rolf Leslie as The Old Man and Renee Wakefield as journalist Mary Hatley (Polly Burton in the book). These featured mysteries from each of the three collections:
The Corner, a 2014 Iranian drama film; The Corner, HBO TV series based on Simon and Burns' book; The Corner, a blog from National Review; The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, a 1997 bestselling book by David Simon & Ed Burns; WCNR (106.1 FM "The Corner"), a radio station in Charlottesville, Virginia
Charles Begore Smith (September 13, 1920 – December 26, 1988) was an American character actor. [1] He was born in Flint, Michigan.. He had notable roles in The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and The Major and the Minor (1942).