· Aaron Sorkin returns to Broadway with The Farnsworth Invention, a play about the birth of television, the deliciously flawed storytelling medium he recently sought to redeem with a little-seen primetime serial about the life-or-death stakes involved in producing a weekly sketch comedy show. [Variety]
· Thomas Haden Church is in negotiations to join Sandra Bullock in All About Steve, a romantic comedy that should reinvigorate the moribund genre by focusing on the previously unseen pairing (we think?) of a lady who writes crosswords and a CNN cameraman. [THR]
· Michael Moore's Sicko sells out the single NY screen on which it debuted, bringing in $70,000 over the weekend. [Variety]
· The Agent Dance, Abbreviated Mid-Level Actresses We Can't Get Excited About Edition: Heroes' Hayden Panettiere signs with WMA, while Julia Stiles hooks up with ICM. [Variety, THR]
· Cartoon Network and Hasbro are co-producing a new Transformers animated series, which will reimagine the property as a "superheroes story" with robots featuring "a lot more human qualities, allowing kids to identify with the characters" they will soon mindlessly consume in an all-new toy line. [THR]
On Broadway, Aaron Sorkin Rekindles Tumultuous Love Affair With Television
11:32 AM on Mon Jun 25 2007
By Mark
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So, did Sorkin conceive the four-part death march after Studio 60 was canceled?
My new favorite toy.
Sorkin looks like he's scolding me and sending me to bed without any crack or Don Henley.
Rumor has it that, in the aforementioned Bullock vehicle, she "falls in with a band of misfits".
Zany!
I love Sandra Bullock, but as someone who purchased (with real money!) Two Weeks Notice, I do hope this time they ease up on the botox a bit. Those long, neutral face pauses where the aggravated and/or puzzled expressions were supposed to go are really excruciating.
Good for you, Sorkin! Nobody gives a shit what's on Broadway.
To quote the inimitable Helen Lawson from VALLEY OF THE DOLLS:
They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me!
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