On Saturday, much of the cast of The West Wing reunited for a panel at Austin’s ATX Festival. Blessedly, it resulted in this Twitter conversation between my mom and dad, Janel Moloney (Donnatella Moss) and Joshua Malina (Will Bailey), about this historic selfie.
Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom (and owner of the most puzzlingly tiny eye glasses in show business) is slated to write To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. But how will he manage to Sorkin it up and turn this time-honored classic about systemic racism and social injustice into a scathing…
Aaron Sorkin, Academy Award-winning screenwriter who likes writing movies about technology, hates the internet. Sorkin has shared his hated of the internet so often that I almost believe it’s all he thinks about—that he’s constantly roaming the dark hallways of his home mumbling things like, “Fucking facegram,” and,…
Like any city, Los Angeles has its upsides and drawbacks. One major benefit of living in Los Angeles, I’m learning, are the pretty fancy and very free cocktails parties that accompany film screenings.
You could call Steve Jobs a filmed adaptation of a book. Or, more accurately, you could call it a filmed adaptation of a book that’s structured like a play. More simply, you could just call it a filmed play. And—if you wanted to get complicated—you could call it a film based on a book based on a man and written in the…
During a Steve Jobs screening on Monday night in New York, the movie’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin explained his approach to writing female characters, which has long been a major point of criticism against him.
Natural redhead Cate Blanchett will be playing natural redhead Lucille Ball in an upcoming film to be written by natural blond Aaron Sorkin. The Wrap reports the film will be an “authorized” biopic, to be produced by Desi Arnaz Jr. and Lucy Arnaz Jr.
Sunday's episode of The Newsroom, and its clumsy handling of a rape plotline, garnered quite a bit of criticism, both here and elsewhere. This bothered Aaron Sorkin, because even Sorkin the Great is not impervious to other peoples' opinions of him: Monday night at the Writers Guild Association, he was "surprised by…
After The Newsroom's ridiculously over-the-top rape subplot aired last night, Alena Smith, a writer on the show, tweeted out her experience in the writer's room during the episode's creation. "When I tried to argue, in the writer's room, that maybe we skip the storyline where the rape victim gets interrogated by a…
The last three seasons of The Newsroom have been both fascinating and infuriating: a depiction of nuts-and-bolts newsjournalism so fantastical that it couches its sanctimonious shaming in righteous idealism. It is show creator Aaron Sorkin's Herman's Head-style universe, where ethics are shouted down unto the people…
The beautiful disaster that is Peter Pan LIVE! doesn't air for about a month, and NBC is already scoping out their next live televised performance. Rumor has it Aaron Sorkin's play-turned-feature film, A Few Good Men may be the next victim and that NBC is in early stages of getting Sorkin to tailor the script for a…
I watch and love HBO's The Newsroom, while knowing full well that in almost every capacity, The Newsroom fucking sucks.
Melissa Harris-Perry tackled the angry black woman stereotype on Sunday with a twist — what if television’s white guys were positioned as angry white men?
Aaron Sorkin is known for writing witty, rat-a-tat dialogue for his TV and movie characters, but unfortunately that quick paced, off-the-cuff way of talking doesn't always serve him so well in real life. Case in point, a response he recently gave during an audience Q&A for Tribeca Innovation Week that was thoughtless,…
What's a girl to do when each episode of Inside Amy Schumer is funnier than the next? Post clips of it all the livelong day, especially when they're Aaron Sorkin parodies with Josh Charles in which we learn that, "A woman's life is worth nothing unless she's making a great man greater."
Will the second season of the hit(?) HBO show be a little more woman friendly? Considering that Aaron Sorkin doesn't think there's a problem, probably not, but if you want to watch Olivia Munn go buckwild and Jane Fonda look/act amazing (always welcome), here's your chance.
Things in Chez Lopez have apparently been strained since Jennifer Lopez's boyfriend Casper Smart accidentally tripped and fell into an "exotic massage parlor" and a gay porn shop the night before Lopez's 43rd birthday party. She's been "frustrated" and "short-tempered" with Smart since the incident, but is also "the…
At a Wednesday session of this summer's Television Critics Association press tour, Aaron Sorkin took the stage alongside Newsroom accomplices Jeff Daniels and executive producer Alan Poul to pedantically explain to critics and journalists who, on the whole, don't much care for his new show that The Newsroom is…
An unlikely friendship indeed: it seems that Aaron Sorkin and Mindy Kaling have been buddies for a few years now, beginning when he sent her a bottle of champagne after he enjoyed an episode of The Office that she penned.
In her continued (and, if you ask me, unnecessary) bid for relevancy, Madonna most recently pissed off Mothers Against Guns during her MDNA tour. They objected when Madge waved around some (fake) firearms onstage during a concert in Murrayfield, Scotland not 48 hours after the Colorado Dark Knight Rises shooting, also…
