Do You Know What It Means 

A New Orleans neighborhood celebrates its first second-line "parade" since Katrina, reuniting many of its musicians and residents, though many more have yet to return.

Director:

Agnieszka Holland

Writers:

David Simon (created by), Eric Ellis Overmyer (creator) (as Eric Overmyer)

Stars:

Khandi Alexander, Rob Brown, Kim Dickens

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Khandi Alexander	...	LaDonna Batiste-Williams
Rob Brown	...	Delmond Lambreaux
Kim Dickens	...	Janette Desautel
Michiel Huisman	...	Sonny (credit only)
Melissa Leo	...	Toni Bernette
Lucia Micarelli	...	Annie (credit only)
Clarke Peters	...	Albert Lambreaux
Wendell Pierce	...	Antoine Batiste
Steve Zahn	...	Davis McAlary
John Goodman	...	Creighton Bernette
Elvis Costello	...	Himself
India Ennenga	...	Sofia Bernette
Edwina Findley Dickerson	...	Davina Lambreaux (as Edwina Findley)
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine	...	Jacques Vaz
Davi Jay	...	Robinette

Storyline

A New Orleans neighborhood celebrates its first second-line "parade" since Katrina, reuniting many of its musicians and residents, though many more have yet to return.

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Plot Keywords:

parade | cemetery | funeral procession | jazz band | bare chested male | 

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Genres:

Drama | Music

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 April 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blown Deadline Productions, HBO Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

76 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Janette runs out of dessert in her restaurant's kitchen, she offers to give Creighton a Hubig's pie from her purse instead. When New Orleanians pointed out that Hubig's didn't actually reopen after Katrina until February 2006 and would therefore not have been available during the time when that scene was set, showrunner David Simon wrote an open letter to the New Orleans Times-Picayune acknowledging that "any such pastry found in a woman's purse should by rights be a pre-Katrina artifact and therefore unsuitable for anyone's dessert" but went on to explain that "the pie in Janette DeSautel's purse is a Magic Hubig's. Much in the manner of certain loaves and fishes in the New Testament, or several days worth of sacramental oil in the Old, this Hubig's somehow survives months of post-Katrina tumult and remains tasty and intact for our small, winking moment of light comedy. We know this because we, the writers, imbued the pie with its special powers. We created it. We stuck it in the purse--or more precisely, the propmaster did."

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Goofs

Melissa Leo's character is seen searching a journalist's aluminum-bezel iMac for photos of a missing prisoner. These models of the iMac were not released until 2007, though the show is set three months after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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Quotes

Antoine Batiste: Play for that money, boys, play for that money!

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Connections

References Live and Let Die (1973)

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Soundtracks

Mama Roux
(uncredited)
Written by Jessie Hill and Dr. John
Performed by Dr. John

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