Word: huffman
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...which two anchors cover dozens of athletic events while trading jokes back and forth. (Like ABC, ESPN is owned by Disney, and while Sports Night was developed independently of SportsCenter, there are plans to cross-promote them.) Peter Krause and Josh Charles play the anchors Casey and Dan, Felicity Huffman is the producer Dana, and Robert Guillaume is the show's executive producer Isaac. Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter for A Few Good Men and The American President, created Sports Night and is among its executive producers. Like a number of emigre writers from the movies now working in TV, Sorkin...
...Sports Night is by far the most interesting new series of the year, and among the most entertaining, it also has some problems. Krause and Charles play the two quick-witted, sports-obsessed pals very plausibly, but so far their characters have been hard to get to know. Huffman is so convincingly over-stressed that she's almost off-putting. The most appealing cast member is Joshua Malina as a brainiac associate producer. But his role sometimes turns sappy, and the show's general earnestness results in speeches that are cliched and moral dilemmas that feel contrived...
...Dartmouth--Morrill 4, Hannigan 2, Huffman 2, Graw, McNulty, Mendelson, Shorts, Frazier Greene, Fenwick, Weitzel; Harvard--MacNaughton 3, Shortsleeve 3, Schoyer, Brown, Fitzpatrick. A: Dartmouth--Greene 3, Hannigan, Fenwick; Harvard--MacNaughton, Schoyer. S: Dartmouth--Carlson 12; Harvard--Barghouti...
...play is an assured, carefully crafted work, but also something of a disappointment. The ricocheting dialogue verges on self-parody, and it doesn't have the realistic underpinnings (or the humor) of American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross. No one can blame the fine cast-Ed Begley Jr., Felicity Huffman and young Shelton Dane-whom Mamet has directed. They help locate the fierce humanity inside this cryptic game...
...three actors seem to reach their stride in this second scene. Sheldon Dane delivers his lines with the steady assurance of a ten-year-old mystic. Felicity Huffman deftly portrays a woman hovering between control and breakdown. Ed Begly Jr., once he gets comfortable, evokes a seemingly passive character torn by anger and self-loathing...