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...course, earnestness has reigned for two years running in the fictional administration of Josiah Bartlet. So it was unsurprising, if a little disappointing, to see the show's creator/writer, Aaron Sorkin, taking the grave events he was inspired by as license to ratchet up the show's already problematic preachiness to levels you couldn't reach with a 50-foot pulpit...
Podesta says, “If you asked him who President Bartlet is, or even Martin Sheen for that matter, he probably wouldn’t know...
...authentic" Hispanic portrayal one steeped in Hispanic culture? Is it Ramon Estevez, a.k.a. Martin Sheen, playing Anglo President Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing? Does it even have to be played by a Hispanic actor? Spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete of the National Council of La Raza, which makes these distinctions every year when it gives out its ALMA awards in film, TV and music, says the answer is not cut and dried. (The group once even recognized non-Latino Nicholas Turturro for playing a Latino cop on NYPD Blue.) "We want [Hispanic] actors to be able to play Shakespeare...
...from out of town to investigate the goings-on, there is apparently a CBS corporate memo forbidding its employees to mention the title "Twin Peaks" in connection with it. (It also stars Tim Matheson, "The West Wing"'s vice president, if that helps you handicap the odds of Josiah Bartlet's veep challenging him for the White House...
President Bartlet's manic attention to local school politics on a recent episode of NBC-TV's hit show The West Wing seems especially appropriate in the final days of this real-life American campaign. Anyone hearing George W. Bush and Al Gore might think that the big vote we're casting next week is really for superintendent in chief...