Word: josiah
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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...
...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...
Japanese intellectuals discussed French poetry and English novels, an education minister proposed English as the new national language, and Japanese counts, marquesses and barons waltzed with their wives at the Deer Cry Pavilion, a pretentious Italianate building, designed by a British architect named Josiah Conder. All this in the name of "civilization," that is, Western civilization. To be civilized was to be modern, and to be modern was to be Western. And this extraordinary new hybrid culture - not widely shared in less privileged Japanese circles, it is true - was at least partly meant to elicit positive Western views of Japan...
...Josiah J. Madigan