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The Routine
"The Routine" is the pilot and first episode of the HBO prison drama television series "Oz". Written by Tom Fontana and directed by Darnell Martin, it aired originally on July 12, 1997.
Starring.
- Ernie Hudson as Warden Leo Glynn
- Terry Kinney as Tim McManus
- Harold Perrineau, Jr. as Augustus Hill
- Eamonn Walker as Kareem Said
Starring Also starring.
- Kirk Acevedo as Miguel Alvarez
- Edie Falco as Correctional Officer Diane Whittlesey
- Leon
in the spectacularly described and salty passages at sea--but the plot chugs along like a leaky TV barge', and concludes "Descriptive brilliance laboring through the shoals of the routine."
Publication history.
- 1989, US, Houghton Mifflin, , Pub date Aug 1989, Hardback
- 1989, UK, Hutchinson, , Pub date Sep 1989, Hardback
- 1990, UK, Vintage, , Pub date 20 Sep 1990, Paperback
- 1991, US, Avon, , Pub date Feb 1991