I walked into my bedroom from the shower this morning and stepped into an in-progress interview with Sorkin on the CBS morning show (whatever they are calling that these days). I presume he was on the other shows as well. Harry Smith asked him about most of the issues mentioned in this thread. Sorkin (who does appear to be sober these days) gently but firmly repeated to Smith's multiple probes that he (Sorkin) is not trying to change cable news, but is only telling a story about a guy who wants to change cable news. When asked how he (Sorkin) would change cable news, he replied that he does not know anything about how to run cable news, and that it would make as much sense for him to give advice on that as it would for him to try to run a baseball team, or be president of the United States. He is attracted to stories about people who are trying to make changes in entrenched systems, but he does not pretend that he himself really knows what the best changes are. He also repeated what I have heard him say before, which is that he tends to create heightened fictional realities, worlds that seem realistic, but that are obviously idealized; so people should not take what he writes as blueprints for how to conduct affairs in the real world. He also said that he really does hear the dialog he writes that way in his head. He also confirmed what I guess had been reported elsewhere but I had not read it, which is that he broke his arm while writing dialogue that will appear in episode 2, because he tends to act out the dialog that he is writing.
Some horrible, awful African-American who for reasons I could not decipher was sitting in on the interview with Smith asked Sorkin some other ridiculous questions, but I ignored her. Sorkin did say some nice things about Nora Ephron, with whom he was apparently friendly, and who he said was one of those who read the pilot script for Newsroom and encouraged HBO to make it. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
