Word: sorkin
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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...
...better or worse, The West Wing has always been a didactic series, but it took finally the urgency of the recent news events for Aaron Sorkin to write an episode that was literally didactic - that is, teacherly - by setting it in what was for all intents and purposes a classroom. The set-up: in response to a reported security breach, the White House "crashes" - no one is allowed to enter or leave - just as aide Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) is speaking to a class of honor students...
...scrap host Ellen DeGeneres' monologue and a skit about President Bush and Al Gore. Comedies like Friends and Sex and the City will seem surreal, maybe even grotesque, if they return to a happy Manhattan where no one looks up in worry upon hearing a plane. Creator Aaron Sorkin of The West Wing, his fictional White House dramatically outdone by reality, has written a special episode dealing with issues raised by the terror attacks...
...West Wing” Creator Aaron Sorkin desperately wanted to run a special episode of the series to address the Sept. 11 attack and NBC has given him the green light to air a terrorist-themed episode on Oct. 3 and push the season opener back by a week...
...Insert your own joke here about [a] Kate Hudson and Ray Romano competing for a reward of Sam Pellegrino or an Ericsson cell-phone call to their agents, [b] an all-rehab edition with Robert Downey Jr., Aaron Sorkin and Matthew Perry drying out in the Kalahari, or [c] Kathie Lee Gifford. Or don't. The very fact that a Celebrity Survivor can be contemplated in essence means that the line between reality and parody has forever been destroyed...