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Tag: Larry Brody
Aaron Sorkin Puffs Up Aaron Sorkin
…but it’s okay because he’s teaching us something, see?
How to Write an Aaron Sorkin Script, by Aaron Sorkin
by AARON SORKIN
A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing— when words won’t do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern. In the pilot of The Newsroom, a new series for HBO, TV news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) emotionally checked out years ago, and now he’s sitting on a college panel, hearing the same shouting match between right and left he’s been hearing forever, and the arguments have become noise. A student asks what makes America the world’s greatest country, and Will dodges the question with glib answers. But the moderator keeps needling him until…snap.
COMMUNITY Scores; Creator not Invited to the Joy
This just in:
Dan Harmon & Steve Levitan React To ‘Community’s Critics Choice Win
Community creator and recently ousted showrunner Dan Harmon took to Twitter to react to the show’s surprise best comedy series win at last night Critics Choice TV Awards and indicated that he was not invited to the ceremony. “Congrats,Community, and thank you, critics,” he wrote. “Sorry I was unable to have been invited!” Harmon was acknowledged onstage by Community star Joel McHale, who accepted the series’ first major award. “I want to thank Dan Harmon, who created the greatest show on television,” McHale said.
LB Watches LONGMIRE
by Larry Brody
The Good:
- Well written, also well-produced and well-directed
- Well acted, especially by Bailey Chase and Katee Sackhoff
- Nice looking blonde deputy of the female variety
- It’s set in a locale we don’t see very often – Wyoming
The Not-So-Good:
LB: ROUTE 66 and NAKED CITY, Si. Bert Leonard? Nah
by Larry Brody
By the time I managed to locate Bert Leonard, all that was left of him fit into a small unit in a self-storage facility in Los Angeles that was hemmed in by concertina wire and a row of spindly palm trees.
– Susan Orlean
All that was left of him was not a storage unit. That wasn’t all that was left of his life. He had all of his children around him, and he got to understand that he was leaving us behind. He didn’t die alone.