- Why are you always one step behind me?
- Because if I wasn't you'd be the most popular economics professor at the University of Wisconsin

With all The West Wing reruns I've been watching on Bravo you'd think I've had my Aaron Sorkin fill recently. But aparently that's not the case, as I felt compelled to pop The American President in today. Sorkin is just a crazy talented dialog writer, and he gets good actors to do his dialog, so I've pretty much resigned that I'll watch just about anything he's involved in making. This turns out to not be too risky of a statement because I've seen everything he's been involved in making (at least everything that's distrubeted widely, including every minute of both of his TV series) and liked it all. With that kind of track record it's easy to see why I'm a fan.

The bottom line is he's the only script writer I know by name (except for all the guys that do everything, write - direct - produce, they don't count) and I eagerly await his next project. So I guess until then I have to get by watching his excellent movies (he also wrote A Few Good Men) and TV show reruns.

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