Home wreckers.

AuthorSuderman, Peter
PositionBriefly Noted - Television program review - Brief article

In HBO's Show Me a Hero, TV auteur David Simon {The Wire) offers yet another panorama of urban unrest and institutional dysfunction. The six-hour miniseries, based on a 1999 book by journalist Lisa Belkin, tells the real-life story of the divisive political process that resulted when a court ordered Yonkers, New York, to build approximately 200 units of affordable housing.

Simon's screenplay, co-written with William F. Zorzi, tilts toward support of the housing project, but makes its case without being overly preachy, mostly because of its journalistic interest in the mechanics of...

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