Day: October 2, 2003

What, I need to say more than the subject heading?

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I happened to catch the last 40 minutes or so of “True Lies,” watching the future governor of California rescuing his daughter, Faith the Vampire Slayer, and I’m thinking, Wow. Now how spectacular would that have been on “West Wing.” Zoey Bartlett is being threatened at gunpoint, clinging for her life with a two mile drop yawning beneath her…and suddenly President Bartlett shows up in a harrier, hauls her aboard, aims a missile at the terrorists and says, “You’re vetoed.” He fires, blows them to bits, and flies away to the tune of “Hail to the Chief.”

Boy, that would sure stake out a tone for the post-Sorkin attitude, wouldn’t it.

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