http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sorkin Posts tagged with 'sorkin' at MetaFilter. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:04:55 -0800 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:04:55 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/62455/Charlie%2DWilsons%2DWar <a href="http://www.nbc.com/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip/"><i>Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip</i></a> ends <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/06242007/tv/60_down_to_one_tv_paige_albiniak.htm">tonight</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin">Aaron Sorkin</a> will be leaving television production for a while. His current project is <i><a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0472062/">Charlie Wilson's War</a></i>, a movie starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, based on the late <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/15/national/main1620687.shtml">George Crile's</a> <a href="http://www.grailwerk.com/docs/nytimes10.htm">excellent</a>, <a href="http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2003/07/21/crile/index_np.html">funny</a> nonfic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802141242/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">book</a> of the same name. The <a href="http://emol.org/film/archives/charliewilsonswar/index.html">movie</a> will <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A165584">trace</a> "party animal" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilson_(politician)">Congressman Charles "Good Time Charlie" Wilson's</a> (D, TX) rise from a scandal (he was caught in <a href="http://www.realmovienews.com/movies/4377">"a hot tub tryst with two cocaine-sniffing showgirls in Las Vegas"</a>,) to his role in the 1980's covertly funding Afghanistan guerrillas so they could expand their <a href="http://afghana.com/Directories/SovietWar.htm">war with the Soviet Union</a>. Wilson's actions would eventually help collapse the Afghan <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan">PDPA government</a>, a power vacuum which would be filled by the Taliban. Who would have thought <a href="http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/16352/">ending the Cold War</a> would be so easy? tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62455 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:04:55 -0800 9-11 afghanistan charliewilson cia covert government hanks hoffman movie roberts scandal sorkin sovietunion states studio60 united war zarq http://www.metafilter.com/55965/Save%2DStudio%2D60 <a href="http://www.savestudio60.com">Save Studio 60!</a> They did it with Arrested Development and they did it with Firefly. They did it with Freaks and Geeks and they did it with Sports Night. They're working to preemptively stop them from doing it again to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.55965 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:18:12 -0800 cause sorkin studio60 tv cjoh http://www.metafilter.com/7039/ <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010416/en/people-sorkin_1.html">West Wing Drug Bust</a> Producer of West Wing busted with drugs...perhaps he was not digesting. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.7039 Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:01:20 -0800 aaronsorkin drugs producer sorkin west westwing wing Postroad