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...WINTER AFTER THE ELECTION, and the President's numbers are dropping. We're talking, of course, about President Josiah Bartlet, whose show, The West Wing, down in the ratings this season, probably seemed like a better candidate for cloning when Mister Sterling was conceived. Sterling (NBC, Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T.), from ex--West Wing producer Lawrence O'Donnell, stars Josh Brolin as a political naif appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat. Populated with more straw men than an Iowa cornfield--sleazy lobbyists, nosy reporters, cynical legislators--Sterling plays safely down the political middle, making its stiff title character...
...pointed at him three times and sings show tunes twice. All this action and some snappy dialogue bring the dry legal issues to life, but between the relentlessly quirky plots and Platt's hammy performance, you'll soon wish somebody would kill them again. Looking for a legacy, President Bartlet? Better focus on your legislative agenda...
BEST EVIDENCE THAT THE WEST WING HAS LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY In last week's episode, not only did Democratic President Bartlet win in a landslide--the VNS exit polls worked...
...term and was re-elected in 1996. The move would no doubt result in a pay raise and make him more familiar to the American public than he could ever dream of being as a Senator. If Thompson does well as a D.A., perhaps he'll run against President Bartlet...
...point Sorkin also indulges his love of cribbing speeches from the Internet. You might recall the episode in which President Bartlet tells off a Dr. Laura figure who's been preaching that the Bible calls homosexuality an abomination, reeling off a list of petty misdemeanors that some passages of the Bible advocate punishing with death; the rant cam pretty much verbatim from a widely circulated anti-Laura e-mail. In "Isaac and Ishmael," Toby explains that the people of Afghanistan are not to be blamed for the excesses of the Taliban. The Taliban, he says, are like the Nazis, ordinary...