He began his career at 9 in theater (he was Jerome in "South Pacific"), and nowadays, on "The Wire," he is the slightly weary but always cool and dedicated Gus Haynes, the city editor of a fictional newspaper called The Baltimore Sun (not to be confused with the real Baltimore Sun).
After her Prague walkout, she refuses to touch the piano again until she meets Will, the young and cool piano teacher hired for Gus.
Then we have Gus Fring, the cool-as-frozen-ice-cream chicken-meth lord of the Southwest.
Mickey is so cool that she blithely disses everything Gus loves without even realizing his feelings might be hurt.
Mind you, Shawn and Gus are a way less cool version of the "Miami Vice" duo, but don't tell them that.
We did a lot of ambient, cool shots and even pulled some influence from Gus Van Sant and other favorites.
Gus Van Sant, nominated for his direction of "Milk," struck the cool I-didn't-realize-nominations-were-this-morning pose.
Appearances on "Saturday Night Live," in 1981, and in Gus Van Sant's "Drugstore Cowboy," in 1989, spread the popularity of his gentleman-junkie cool.
Mickey confronts Gus on the set where he works, and shouts at him, saying, "Surprise, I'm not the cool girl.
