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When I saw Jeb Bush say "Stuff happens" about the horrific shootings in Oregon, I immediately went to President Bartlett's comment to challenger Ritchie after hearing his reaction to Mark Harmon being

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Not exactly media, but a commercial that cracked me up!

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Allison Janney appeared at the real press briefing today, filling in for the real press secretary who was ostensibly out after a "root canal"--she was in character to start the briefing, and invited t

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I guess this is the right place for this.

I was searching through the TV section of the (US) iTunes Store earlier today & I noticed that not only can you (still) buy each season of the show individually there, but you can also buy all 7 seasons together, sort of like a legally downloadable version of the Complete Series DVDs. I don't know how long the series has been available at iTunes in that form, only that it wasn't available like that the last time I looked at their TWW offerings (which was long after the Complete Series DVDs were released, but not very recently).

The Complete Series version of the show is $74.99 on iTunes. Yeah, that sounds like a lot--& it probably is (maybe unless you take into consideration they made 7 seasons &, I think, over 150 eps of the show)--but, considering the individual seasons may still be as costly as $39.99 for each individual full season, if you want TWW on your iPod, iPad, or other Apple device & you don't have it there yet, the Complete Series version may be the better/cheaper way to get it now. Just putting that out there.

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I might be a little late to the party (I usually am), but I was looking up information on Bradley Whitford, and I came across this interview, and to me it was just awesome:

If someone has already posted, it my apologies for the duplication.

Here is another one, this is an interview about Bradley's new movie "All the Way", but I am just putting it here cause GREY BRADLEY!

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W.G. "Snuffy" Walden, who composed the music for TWW (& many other hit TV shows, & probably movies as well), Tweeted today that he expects to release an album (CD) of music from The West Wing through Warner Brothers "soon". He previously released the main title theme & a longer piece, titled The West Wing Suite, on an album titled Music by... W.G. "Snuffy" Walden. But that was a compilation of his works. This would apparently be an album (CD) strictly of music from TWW.

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By the way, forgot to point out yet another TWW shout out from Lin-Manuel Miranda, who ended one of his acceptance speeches with "What's Next". It fit into his rap, but we know it was not an accident.

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3 minutes ago, AriAu said:

By the way, forgot to point out yet another TWW shout out from Lin-Manuel Miranda, who ended one of his acceptance speeches with "What's Next". It fit into his rap, but we know it was not an accident.

 

He got called out in this week's West Wing Weekly from ATX as clearly someone influenced by Sorkin and an ultra-TWW fan :)
 

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New article from People magazine about the cast reuniting at the ATX Festival for the 10th anniversary of the series finale; but it says they reunited almost more to promote their work with the Justice for Vets organization Melissa Fitzgerald (CJ's Press Assistant, Carol) is now Senior Director of, than to mark the 10th anniversary of the airing of the series finale.

http://www.people.com/article/west-wing-cast-reunites-justice-for-vets

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Re: Real life Senator Murphy's filibuster with respect to gun control---who here were not surprised when the other senators asked questions in order to give him a little break?

Did they ask any questions with 22 parts....that might take awhile. Never mess with a grandfather and as we learned a senator from the state where Sandy Hook happened and a pissed off Civil Rights icon who is certainly not going to back down from a guy who looks like Eddie Munster and carries nothing more threatening than a gavel!

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3 hours ago, BW Manilowe said:

Bradley Whitford tells People magazine there's no way Aaron Sorkin could write a character like Donald Trump, if TWW aired today.

If Sorkin wrote a character like that, no one would believe it had any basis in reality...

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If Sorkin wrote a character like that, no one would believe it had any basis in reality...

Leaving out the bad toupe and make-up and the insane policy statements (which change daily) basically, Sorkin did write him--he is  Bob Rumson without his own plane, a bunch of buildings and hotels and casinos with his name on it, a reality TV show and (theoretically) a lot of money. 

Is "Making America Great Again" much different than "Bring Back the Pride".

While he did not quite call Hillary's significant other a whore, he did call Bill a rapist. And Trump has mastered the art of saying something like "Someone said that ......" or "I have heard that" (even if just from one of his own whack job websites) which is not much different than saying "I'm not making an accusation, but when you hear one thing, you dismiss it and you hear another, you dismiss it but when  several well respected members of the Virginia legislature...". And Trump is very into name calling so is it a far reach from "The First Mistress" to Crooked Hillary?

And of course, Trump's whole message is to get together  a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with
longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values.

And finally, let me assure you that Trump is not interested in solving problems and is really only interested in 2 things:making you afraid and telling you whose to blame.

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13 hours ago, Moose135 said:

If Sorkin wrote a character like that, no one would believe it had any basis in reality...

I think that might've been Bradley's point. That a character like him certainly can't be based in reality. But wasn't that also what a lot of people also said about the Democrats & Republicans who populated the TWW "universe", that many or all of them behaved, in the show, in ways that you didn't normally find real life representatives of their parties behaving?

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Was listening to the Hamilton soundtrack this weekend and up comes a song "That Would be Enough" and the keyline is Hamilton's wife says "..so long as you come home at the end of the day".

I know Lin Manuel is a wing nut and a Sorkin fanatic, but I guess I should not be surprised since good writers borrow from other writers while great writers steal outright.

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There was an Alison Janney interview in the NYTimes Magazine this weekend, and her list of favorite film moms is pretty fabulous (plus, some WW references in the interview, of course):

Her Top 5 Movie Moms:
1. Eleanor Iselin, “The Manchurian Candidate”
2. Mrs. Robinson, “The Graduate”
3. Joan Crawford, “Mommie Dearest”
4. Ellen Ripley, “Aliens”
5. Aurora Greenway, “Terms of Endearment”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/allison-janney-still-cringes-about-that-sex-scene.html?mabReward=CTM&moduleDetail=recommendations-1&action=click&contentCollection=Health&region=Footer&module=WhatsNext&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&src=recg&pgtype=article

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For those who haven't yet heard, Rob Lowe is joining the cast of CBS' Code Black this season. He plays a former combat surgeon in Afghanistan who comes to the hospital in the show (I don't watch... Yet... So I don't know that much about it) to teach them combat medicine techniques (which they can apparently somehow integrate into their normal procedures).

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Hillary Clinton’s campaign is vetting James G. Stavridis, a retired four-star Navy admiral who served as the 16th supreme allied commander at NATO, as a possible running mate, according to a person with knowledge of the vetting process.

Saw this on line and I immediately whispered, "I bet no one took his kid's lunch money". Do you think he knows Thomas Bailey?

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Congratulations to Allison Janney & Bradley Whitford on their Emmy nominations for this past season's TV work.

Allison is nominated--again--for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her current series, CBS' Mom. She's won at least once before for this role.

She is also nominated again as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama for her role in Showtime's Masters of Sex.

As for Bradley, he was nominated again as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy for his recurring role in Transparent, which streams on Amazon.com's Prime Video. He won this award for this role last year.

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I have a small correction from yesterday's post.

Bradley's newest Emmy nomination as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy is for playing a recurring character named Magnus Hirschfeld (apparently a real person) in the most recent season of Amazon's Transparent; it's not for playing the characters of Mark & Marcy in Transparent, for which he won the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Emmy last year.

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Remember when Sam got schooled about the Roosevelt Room being named for Teddy Roosevelt? It turns out he was not wrong. The room was named for BOTH Roosevelt. 

The White House celebrated 26 years of ADA with a WW Tours with ROTUS (who is deaf) and profiles of some of the disabled people working in the White House

https://medium.com/the-white-house/celebrating-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-at-the-white-house-aa5202fb03be#.dvgpynx4a

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4 hours ago, Artsda said:

 

The West Wing Cast to Reunite, Campaign for Hillary Clinton in Ohio

http://tvline.com/2016/09/21/the-west-wing-cast-hillary-clinton-ohio-campaign/

This has some more info, insofar as what cities/areas the cast will be in & on what day (Saturday or Sunday). Their swing ends on Sunday in Columbus/the Columbus area.

http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/west-wing-cast-hillary-clinton-1201867222/

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GHScorpiosRule

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1 hour ago, Moose135 said:

Be prepared for many sleepless nights.  Not that it isn't worth it, but I'm just saying...

That won't be an issue as I'm presently suffering from insomnia (due to being out of work for over a year now!?) so I have something to while away the hours!

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WAHOOO!!!! Guess what arrived today??!!! Why am I 'wahooing?' Because Amazon "told" me that it wouldn't arrive until Monday, which is five days, and not the 2 day Free Shipping I normally get under Prime. And when I called them, Umberto (the guy I spoke with) apologized because normally I would get it in two days, but they pushed it back. He didn't know why and gave me a $5 credit on my next purchase.  That was nice of him, and I emphasized I wasn't calling because I was irritated or angry--just confused. Because when I looked it up on Amazon, there was a "want it tomorrow?" to "2 day shipping" to the final you will receive it by Monday, October 31, guaranteed delivery. He didn't know why, either.

But, I got a text, telling me it was delivered this morning!

So I'll be hunking down and rewatching on my dvds and watching all the extras first! Because that's the way I roll!

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19 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

Interesting. Rob Lowe is the only main cast member who is not in any of the interviews in the First season special features. 

At least, not in the first two: Primaries and Inauguration.

I'm getting teary-eyed seeing John Spencer.

He's not in any of the special features for any of the first 4 seasons (the "Sam" seasons) or S7 (when Sam reappeared after Josh went to get him for Santos' Administration). At least he's not in anything that was newly-recorded for the special features.

He's only in them if they used all or part of scenes which included him from the eps he was in. I guess he couldn't cut the deal he wanted for participation in that sorta stuff, or something, but I don't really know why he's not in the new parts of the special features.

That's just not some actors' "thing" I guess; after the first season DVDs for the current Hawaii Five-0, Scott Caan has rarely, if ever, participated in anything new that was done for those DVDs special features. Like Rob, he's still in scenes used from the show in the special features, but he hasn't done many, if any, new interviews, etc., for the special features.

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PHOOEY!

Disc one of season two is fucked up and the thing freezes at the end of part II of "Shadow of the Gunmen."

So back to Amazon it goes for a replacement. Gah. I wish I could just do an exchange for specific discs! Not that it's a hardship, but I'll have to rewatch from the beginning to make sure all the discs are okay. 

It never used to be like this. Just as early as two years ago, when I got the full series of JAG (shutup!), I was able to marathon through them and nary a scratch on any of the discs. And that one was 10 seasons. I know I'll just have seasons 5-7 on as background noise, except for Leo's funeral one, but still, it's a pain in the butt.

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Oh Jeebus Fucking Christ. Got all the way through half of the sixth season in my replacement set and discs 37 and 38 are fucked up. As is 42 in the Seventh season. I just issued another replacement. EXCEPT when I get the new set, I'm just going to run the discs that are messed up to make sure they're okay and swap them.

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On 1/16/2017 at 9:17 AM, betsyboo said:

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I wish I could like your post a million times! I always loved when Lin would post West Wing Giphys that would show up on my twitter feed, but this is just fantastic.

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11 hours ago, SnoGirl said:

I wish I could like your post a million times! I always loved when Lin would post West Wing Giphys that would show up on my twitter feed, but this is just fantastic.

#Hamilwing

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Since I feel the same way as Schlamme about government, and about this "politician is a dirty word" culture, I loved this:

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Those Washington-esque, political shows are pretty different now. House of Cards, which I admire, is pretty different than the valentine to public service that was underneath The West Wing. The pain for me in our world today is the lack of belief in an institution I so strongly believe in — the American government. Does it have its faults? Yeah, sure. But we've so demonized anyone who says they're in politics. That's what I think, as much as anything, that Trump exploited. I wish somebody did emerge, a young Aaron Sorkin, with a way to tell stories, out of this mud, that celebrate public service. Whoever reads this, write that show.

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Those Washington-esque, political shows are pretty different now. House of Cards, which I admire, is pretty different than the valentine to public service that was underneath The West Wing. The pain for me in our world today is the lack of belief in an institution I so strongly believe in — the American government. Does it have its faults? Yeah, sure. But we've so demonized anyone who says they're in politics. That's what I think, as much as anything, that Trump exploited. I wish somebody did emerge, a young Aaron Sorkin, with a way to tell stories, out of this mud, that celebrate public service. Whoever reads this, write that show.

Amen!  I want to like this 1000 times.

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