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...creative talents in the business. Krantz, 39, has a killer Rolodex of contacts from his days at CAA and a history of packaging some of TV's biggest deals (teaming Michael Crichton and ER with NBC, for instance). He persuaded Lynch to return to TV and convinced screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The American President) to try the medium for the first time. The result: Sports Night. Krantz and Grazer, 47, so liked the work of screenwriter J.J. Abrams (Regarding Henry) that they bought Abrams' script for Felicity as a TV series after just one read-through. Steve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Firing Up The Imagination | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...ESPN is owned by Disney, and while Sports Night was developed independently of SportsCenter, there are plans to cross-promote them.) Peter Krause and Josh Charles play the anchors Casey and Dan, Felicity Huffman is the producer Dana, and Robert Guillaume is the show's executive producer Isaac. Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter for A Few Good Men and The American President, created Sports Night and is among its executive producers. Like a number of emigre writers from the movies now working in TV, Sorkin brings a fresh approach to the medium, even if his sensibility is mainstream. Another executive producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Distinct? Or Extinct? | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...device--a way to put lobbyist Sydney Wade (Annette Bening) on a collision course with President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) before they become friends, lovers and the stuff of tabloid scandal. But the line is also a clue to the politics of this witty romantic comedy, written by Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men) and directed by Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally...). It's a liberal fantasy--a vision of the President as a good man who can coax the national consensus just slightly leftward--that is as anachronistic as it is seductive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: WHERE NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

Murphy's defensive backs and special teams coach is Steve Sorkin, previously a defensive assistant at Columbia...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Murphy Names New Staff | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

...Sorkin has a strong Ivy League reputation as a recruiter, according a Murphy. In addition, he is a native Bostonian...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Murphy Names New Staff | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

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