In our relationship, I was always the hotshot Washington kid who needed a lot of ego to function, and people assumed I was in charge when the truth was I couldn't have done anything without her. The Union made a special low-budget agreement with "West Wing" for the pilot and the first year on a trial basis. "I say, 'Put this shirt on. '
Cincinnati Enquirer. I think there were better episodes of West Wing this year, but for awards consideration, I would still put up the pilot because we really did start with nothing and I'm very proud of what we ended up with. And they said:" How do we go about doing it? Lisa Edelstein as||Laurie (Brittany Rollins)||Call Girl / Law Student|. "My reason isn't 'Isn't that a cool shot? ' To Zucker, all this makes Sorkin more, not less, of a genius. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Leftover bits from ''The American President, '' the second script he wrote for Reiner, became ''The West Wing, '' a show that won nine Emmys last year and attracts upward of 20 million viewers a night. "In my mind, there was nobody else who was right for it. ''It wasn't Bruce Willis stakes. I was so nervous the script was shaking in my hand. It took Sorkin four and a half pages to find his voice and three plays to find his commercial groove. TV Guide (Canadian edition). When I circle back, it becomes clear that the same question vexes Sorkin himself. Sorkin protests far less. Full Interview in Casting Qs.
Sorkin gives Lowe a couple of notes: ''You don't have to be so somber and funereal. Moloney: Unfortunately, I was only hired for the pilot. It's a very powerful image. According to Bradley Whitford, who plays Josh Lyman, the deputy chief of staff, considered by show insiders to be the voice of Sorkin, ''I think Aaron would like to have my character's job and look like Rob. It was extremely hard to get on the air and extremely hard to make. I ended up going to the audition. Who knew then he was gathering information? "Only my mom could think I was the character played by Rob Lowe. Whitford: I loved her immediately. Thomas Schlamme, an executive producer of ''West Wing, '' wonders whether, if Frank Capra were making movies now, he would have to endure the same condescending assumptions that exploring the darkness in people is better art than celebrating the good in them. They described the incoming leader's return to power as "a significant threat to the future of Israel — its direction, its security and even the idea of a Jewish homeland. Mike Selinker (and his crew) proves once again that he is a true hero in the puzzle world. It was there, she claims, that he introduced her to cocaine.
Schlamme knows The West Wing was lucky to have launched before 9/11. There was one sitcom at ABC where I was supposed to play a building super who looks after these six kids. But the interesting thing is that at the final auditions for the network the other guy who was a finalist was Eugene Levy [of the American Pie films] who is a very talented and funny actor. Sheen was only supposed to appear in one out of every four episodes until all involved realized, as Sheen puts it, that "one of the rings in this three-ring circus was not be used enough. I didn't know it at the time, because I was just so concerned about doing a good job and making my scenes as true as I could and creating a character that was whole, as opposed to someone they were going to send home next week because she wasn't special. "That we will constantly be just missing the president. I understood what they were saying: 'Boy, you've done a great imitation. ''Yeah, I often wonder to myself why the things I write about are pretty much disconnected from the things I think about, '' he says. "From the first reading I could see that The West Wing was something special. This kind of freaked me out because I am really a comedic actress. Martin Sheen got the hang of being president pretty quick. Left to his own devices, he would rather watch ''Sports Reporters'' than ''Crossfire. SHEEN I said, "I don't really know how you want me to play this and who is this guy, Jed Bartlet? "
Richard Schiff (The West Wing): "I went in to audition for The West Wing, and I was god-awful. New York Daily News. Is that really her first name? ''Sometimes I like to go with friends, '' he says. ''It's going to be landmark television. Did she have a home life, hobbies, any superpowers?
I called Aaron and said, "That's not who I am. Leo McGarry: Margaret, please call the editor of the New York Times crossword and tell him that Khaddafi is spelled with an H and two D's and isn't a seven-letter word for anything. Still, I'm honored that some of the people who viewed the show would have thought Josh was even slightly based on me. Did you feel that kind of research was necessary? "Interview with W. Snuffy Walden".
"Intentional swastika or not, the fact that the @nytimes @NYTGames would have a staff so insensitive to not catch it, is worthy of discussion & action. So I just started talking to myself in my head louder. I really wanted the show to be about the senior staffers, and had the fear that the character of the president would necessarily skew the show in a different direction. And it was soon after shooting on the pilot began that Sorkin and his fellow executive producer, John Wells, decided to make the change. I think any director will recognize that a pilot is different from any episode. For Sorkin, freebasing is as solitary a pursuit as writing. ''Ooh, violence -- I went to prep school but I'm down with that, '' mocks Bradley Whitford. "The first take I said it with a kind of dread, " Sheen recalls. But co-star Rob Lowe, a friend of Sheen's family since age 13, says he always expected Bartlet to dominate the series. David Sage as||John Van Dyke|. ''But honestly, I just like the feeling of being myself in a very crowded place with that kind of energy. '' "Shaking the chill of the attacks".
"Mr. Sheen Goes to Washington". So that made me feel very good. " MOLONEY I read for C. first, and they said, "Do you want to read for this smaller role? In a signed tirade, he insisted that Cleveland's contributions were so minor that he should have counted himself lucky to have won an Emmy at all. A rep for Sorkin would say only, "Aaron knew Dimitria for a short time a long time ago. I [Bill Brioux] always thought Lowe's best moments on this series came right in the pilot when his character stumbled into an affair with a hooker. Sorkin became convinced that his show's subtle connection to reality had been severed and that unless he could find a way to let viewers know that his characters had suffered the same trauma as everyone else, the show would forever clink hollow. Zucker says a week before the postponed Emmys are canceled for the second time. With references to Shakespeare and Graham Greene, visits to rare-book stores and oblique Latin episode titles like ''Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, '' the show is so achingly high end that you almost expect the warning ''Quality Television'' to start flashing below the picture.