Word: sorkin
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...conservative show? Yes, in the sense that the thriller is a conservative genre. Ticking time bombs and pure-evil bad guys make for exciting TV. Working patiently to improve America's image in the Muslim world--not so much. (Maybe Aaron Sorkin could spice it up with an office romance and lots of walk-and-talks.) Muddy a terrorism thriller with liberal concern over root causes and you get Syriana, whose plot audiences couldn't follow with a GPS device. "The politics of the show," says executive producer Howard Gordon (a registered Democrat), "are narrative politics...
...they can buy an American show that works for them but gets canceled in the U.S. In Britain, Channel 4's acquisitions director Jeff Ford says he was willing to take a risk on the much anticipated NBC drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip because of creator Aaron Sorkin's track record with The West Wing. So far, Studio 60--about a Saturday Night Live--like comedy show--hasn't performed all that well. "We feel the show goes beyond TV and is a workplace drama," says Ford of its appeal to British viewers...
Lambda Co-president Adam R. Sorkin explained his organization’s strategy by arguing that a large demonstration would not be productive...
...While the Supreme Court has clearly authorized such an approach, we didn’t think it would be the best this year,” Sorkin wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “We decided [that] a course of action, as opposed to simple protest, would have a greater impact...
...military recruiters on campus tomorrow may not necessarily agree with [don’t ask, don’t tell], so it does not sit well to be confrontational to people who may be sympathetic but who cannot publicly say so,” Sorkin added...