I Really Love Knowing This Stuff...
Most of my flist probably knows about the facebook group that Aaron Sorkin started and regularly shows up at to chat on the boards. It's fairly interesting and often entertaining, despite and sometimes because of the fact that most of the posts (which can be both far too long and self-congratulatory) are done by a small group of Aaron groupies who flirt unashamedly (see: often entertaining, above).
But today I found a few gems in Aaron's comments that I felt I must broadcast to my own tiny world...
The visual that this brings up is just delicious:
I'd be happy to donate (to the Smithsonian) anything they like (they already have many of (Gail's) fish bowls--the props dept. made a different one for each episode with an ornament in the middle that somehow reflected the a theme in that week's show. Some were given to a cast, crew or staff member who'd been an MVP on that particular show, some got auctioned off for charity, some are in my office and some--incredibly-- are at the Smithsonian.) The night the last scene of the last episode was shot it was like a land rush on Stage 23. Matt Perry stole Teddy Roosevelt's Nobel Prize, I was given the door to the White House Communications Office and Tommy has a framed napkin that says "Bartlet for America" scrawled in John Spencer's handwriting. Allison took her podium, Schiff made sure he had the business card that was found in the homeless man's coat and Martin simply refused to leave.
and this was what I always suspected, but it's interesting to see it confirmed:
And not that you should necessarily take a page from my playbook but I've never written a pilot knowing what was going to happen in the second episode let alone the rest of the season.
and this one just cracked me up (posted in response to thanks for being so quick with his responses):
Pretty clear evidence that I'm simply doing no work at all but I'm happy to help. I'm a giver. I'm a people person. I'm an AmeriCAN, not an AmeriCAN'T. So I give and I give until I have nothing left to give and then I give some more. You know why? Because it's all about the kids.
Seriously, I should be writing.
I feel now like I should set up a daily feed...Best of Aaron on Facebook, which would arguably save many of you a lot of time and (possibly) frustration... Because it's all about the kids... ;-)