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Opinion: How About a Little Respect for Hollywood Screenwriters?

The Oscars are coming! While the usual pundits are busy sharpening their predictions and betting on the biggies -- best actor, best director, best picture -- I would like to say a word for the oft-forgotten writing nominations. Scripts are the seeds of thought that movies grow from. Not many films get made without them...

Keith Olbermann Departure: 5 Job Prospects for the Former MSNBC Anchor

Keith Olbermann is probably not headed for the "where are they now" category. Despite being the network's most popular personality, the outspoken television host parted ways with MSNBC last week after years of tension with network executives. But does anyone really believe that we have seen the last of Keith Olbermann?...

Aaron Sorkin Compares Sarah Palin, Michael Vick

Aaron Sorkin is a screenwriter. He's given us The American President and The West Wing among other movies. And, it turns out, he's not particularly impressed by real-life politician Sarah Palin. In fact, Sorkin lambasted the former Alaska governor and John McCain's 2008 running mate for, among other things, being a...

Birth, 2.0: Many Babies Born Online Before Real Life

(Oct. 7) -- In Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's "The Social Network," a cocaine-addled Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake, rattles off a vision of the future that, depending on your point of view, is either dystopia or utopia. "We lived on farms, we lived in cities," he says. "Now we'll live on the Internet." For...

Oakland Goes Hollywood With Brad Pitt's 'Moneyball' Production

OAKLAND, Calif. -- There has been a buzz around the Coliseum this week that has nothing to do with Trevor Cahill or Kurt Suzuki or Andrew Bailey. It's about guys like Scott Hatteberg, Miguel Tejada and -- who are we kidding? -- Brad Pitt. For the past week, Hollywood has taken over the Coliseum, where they've been...

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Woz hired as technical advisor on Jobs biopic

Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter for the Facebook-inspired The Social Network , is working on an adaptation of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson.

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Aaron Sorkin Tells Syracuse Grads: You Are 'Super Dumb'

Aaron Sorkin , screenwriter of the Social Network , used his particular blend of wit and principles to deliver a stirring commencement adress at Syracuse University on Sunday.

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05/24/12 Summer TV preview: The shows that have us most excited Source: The Mercury News - San Jose CA The days of summer TV being a wasteland littered with nothing but reruns and rejects are long gone.
05/24/12 Are Kristin Davis, Aaron Sorkin Dating? Source: ABC - KAPP 35 - Yakima WA "Sex and the City" actress Kristin Davis is in the early stages of a relationship with Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, according to E!
05/23/12 Summer TV preview: The shows that have us most excited Source: Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek CA The days of summer TV being a wasteland littered with nothing but reruns and rejects are long gone.
05/23/12 Two Teasers For Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM Source: Twitch If ever a talent were engineered specifically for the TV minds at HBO I imagine that talent would emerge looking very much like Aaron Sorkin.
05/23/12 The Culture Gabfest, âI Think We Really Made a... Source: Slate Conan O'Brien's 2011 commencement speech at Dartmouth College.

Background on Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an Academy and Emmy award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, and Moneyball.

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