Episode 282: Shout-outs, What’s Up With That?, Softball Recap, Bet’s Generic Review, Aaron Sorkin: Yay or Nay?, Bet’s Olympic Question, Fuck Offs and You Rules, Scratch-Off: Live!, TV or Movie Characters We’d Like to Be Married To.
“The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra.
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It’s Tuesday…I stayed home today to get my new office in order and listened to you as I went through boxes and boxes of drek….
I LOL’d at the Aaron Sorkin YouTube Video…cracked me up ( and made me realize that maybe I work too hard on making each Minute unique…..)
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On theCourship of Eddie’s Father, his name was Mr. Eddie’s Father. Duh!
p.s. Nice tag. NOT!
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Thank you for “reuse me Jesus”. That line made my day.
I haven’t seen The Social Network, and don’t know a lot of Aaron Sorkin’s work, but it seems to me (and from attitudes held by my fellow actors) that Sorkin’s words and pacing need to be spoken by actors who have the same style as Sorkin. I don’t think I’m one of them. It either works or it doesn’t…and I can’t say I like or dislike him. I did like American President, thought it was sweet and intelligent, but I haven’t seen West Wing or Sports Night…so, he’s on the plus side from me so far. I do want to see Social Network, Moneyball, and The Newsroom.
I just had a big callback for Disney Cruises this morning…will “hands on the monitor” make it that much more likely that they’ll hire me?!?! Or “hands on the toaster” or “hands on the light switch”? 😀 Whatever you think will work so I can get off unemployment!
Movie characters *I’D* want to be married to: Don Lockwood from “Singin’ In The Rain” (I’d break Kathy Seldon in two and toss her out the window), Peter Warne from “It Happened One Night” (Clark Gable, and he wouldn’t let me get away with any crap!), Ed Bloom (Ewan McGregor) from “Big Fish,” although I’m married to an imaginative storyteller already (Hi ThePete!), and C.K. Dexter Haven from “The Philadelphia Story” or Walter Burns in “His Girl Friday” (Cary Grant, fighting for the chance to re-marry the woman he loves….which would still be me…..humanahumanahumana!).
I’m not quite finished with the episode but wanted to make an Aaron Sorkin comment. We are big fans because of his dialogue-writing abilities. We loved West Wing, Sports Night and Studio 60. We have started watching The Newsroom and after the pilot, we immediately said, “he’s baaaack.”
Not really feeling it tonight — I’m sure the Aurora shooting has us all not feeling it.
Also, I have started a blog. I’ve written a women’s basketball newsletter and a weekly column for our church in the past and my dream job is to be a travel writer. Heading to London for the Olympics and wanting to send digital postcards has motivated us to buy an Ipad and I have a summer employee/co-worker, a 20-year old college student, who has coached me all the way through the creative process on Tumblr (that’s what she uses so that’s where I’ll start it). http://www.suitcasetales.tumblr.com
Back when I was the very model of a modern major West Wing fan, and frequented the TWOP fora, I recall reading that Sorkin more or less single-handedly wrote the first four seasons of The West Wing; something like 80 episodes. So I can understand and kind of forgive a little recycling, even the really shameless cases like the episode entitled “A Proportionate Response,” which was lifted practically verbatim from a scene in “The American President.”
I was also a huge Sports Night fan, and remember clearly being wowed by the writing on that show, right out of the gate. The guy definitely has an ear for banter, but can be incredibly substantive and inspirational, too.
That said, he really burned through pretty much all the good will I had for him with Studio 60. It started out with a lot of promise, but just never delivered. It got really annoyingly meta. At the end, it was almost as if he was daring the audience to still like him. Like having Allison Janney (who played CJ on TWW) come on the show as Allison Janney, the actress and West Wing alum, but have a scene with Timothy Busfield (who had played a reporter and sometime love interest of CJ’s) playing Cal, the director.
I really enjoyed “Charlie Wilson’s War” and thought he redeemed himself a bit with that; I haven’t seen, but am looking forward to, “Moneyball” and “The Social Network.”