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...concerned, there were once three branches of government: lawyers, judges and hard-nosed cops who played by their own set of rules. Otherwise, government was ratings death. "The feeling was, once you got into Washington and politics," says Aaron Sorkin, creator-writer of The West Wing, "you knew your audience was going to be cut in half...
Then in 1999, nine months after President Clinton's impeachment, Sorkin's White House drama debuted on NBC. The aides were sexy, honorable and smart. The President was a folksy Nobel laureate with touches of F.D.R., Stephen Hawking, Will Rogers and the Buddha. The series was a hit, and in the glow of the characters' thousand-megawatt halos, TV's view of Washington--once typified by the evil FBI conspiracists on The X-Files--started to shift...
...Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator, wrote the special episode in a matter of days. Titled “Ismael and Isaac” a reference to the two sons of Abraham (and the Arab and Jewsish patriachs respectively), the show was offered up to viewers as an anomaly in the usual West Wing storyline. “This week we thought we’d do something a little different,” Rob Lowe (who plays Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn) said in the cast-led preface to the show. In addition to explaining the nature...
...episode lived up to his expectations. “I was a little bit concerned that they were going to do a special episode on it because the topic was so sensitive,” he admitted. However, he continued, “I was very pleased. Aaron Sorkin succeeded in producing an episode that was very powerful yet respectful of the tragedy...
...jump a thousand feet rather than burn to death. It was a lot easier for the fictional class on the screen to take his advice than for the figurative one at home. But that's one problem, with drama and with life, that even I can't blame Aaron Sorkin...