Wire Education ; Is It Really so Strange That Old Etonian Dominic West Plays the Irish-American Lead in Tv Cop Show the Wire? After All, He Studied at Trinity and Is Marrying Into Irish Aristocracy... [Eire Region]

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eton, it seems, is no longer a four-letter word. For many years, the world's most famous private school had been widely regarded as something of an anachronism. As their influence on public life was seen to be waning, many Old Etonians felt it was best to pretend they'd never been to the posh British school. Not any longer.

While Boris Johnson presides over London as mayor, his old Eton contemporary David Cameron leads Britain's Conservative party. And it's not just in politics that Old Etonians are staging a comeback. Hugh Laurie is the star of the US TV show House, with a global audience of more than 80 million.

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Wire Education ; Is It Really so Strange That Old Etonian Dominic West Plays the Irish-American Lead in Tv Cop Show the Wire? After All, He Studied at Trinity and Is Marrying Into Irish Aristocracy... [Eire Region]

Then there's the curious case of Dominic West. As Detective Jimmy McNulty in HBO's The Wire, he spent five years pounding the streets of one of the most dangerous cities in the western hemisphere. Hard- drinking and lecherous with no respect for authority, McNulty swaggered through Baltimore's meanest streets like he owned them, making his own rules as he went along, and damn the consequences. West acknowledges that he has become virtually synonymous with the character of McNulty. On the day we meet, he's just back from a weekend visit to Glastonbury, where there was no getting away from cries of 'Yo! McNulty!' from festival-goers of all ages.

Those who only know West from The Wire tend to react with amazement when they learn the basic facts about him. Firstly, that someone ab...

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