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...neatly dressed husband and wife are in their 50s and comfortingly average looking. Their once-smooth dark skin is now veined and burnished to a proud sheen, reflecting the decades of hard work they have put into raising a family, earning their salaries and, now, battling...
...have firmed, and in some ways the show is better. Producer John Wells, now heading up the writers' team, kept the core of Sorkin's show but toned down the piety. The heroes are more self-doubting and fallible, and their adversaries more human. Last year President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) ran for re-election against a Republican so dim and loutish no one could have voted for him unless tricked by a butterfly ballot. This year--resolving a cliffhanger set up by Sorkin--Wing gave us John Goodman as a G.O.P. House Speaker (stepping in for Bartlet after his daughter...
...fact, President Bartlet himself would have been a Harvard alum, but Martin Sheen, a diehard fan of the Fighting Irish, insisted that his character had graduated from Notre Dame...
...items for the sale on the website include a collection of four wood chairs described as “standard, but perfectly fine for sitting” (current value: $15), a third edition Introductory Quantum Mechanics textbook (current value: $70), the Charlie Sheen classic Platoon, described on the website as a “Crazy Nam movie” that “comes up in a bunch of MR classes” (current value: $2) and a $500 gift certificate to The Wrap (current value...
...pose as a spiritualist to con rich marks, in the process revealing the family history that destroyed his faith in God and man. Nightmare Alley (Fantagraphics; 129 pages) is an existential novel wrapped in a noir chiller, and Rodriguez's lurid drawings strike just the right balance of sheen and sleaze. Step right...