Hank Stuever Quotes
My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.
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My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.
