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The West Wing - Series 6
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The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin for NBC, airing since 1999. The show is set in the White House - which serves as the residence of the President & his family - during a fictional Democratic administration. The West Wing of the White House is the location of the Presidents Oval Office & the offices of most of his senior staff. The West Wing parallels the real world in many ways, yet also has several key differences. Sorkin, the shows creator, has noted in a DVD commentary track for the second season episode 18th & Potomac that he has tried to avoid tying the show to a specific period of time. Presidents since Richard Nixon do not seem to have existed in the West Wing world. Prior to President Bartlets election, the White House was occupied by Owen Lassiter, a two-term conservative Republican, who has since died & whose funeral President Bartlet attended. Lassiters administration had been preceded by that of D Wire Newman, a one-term liberal Democrat, played in a single appearance by actor James Cromwell. Posters Of The West WingWeve all wondered how long President Bartlet can continue with his illness, & how the writers of the show would string out his final year in office so that it somehow never ends. Indeed, no West Wing fan wants it to end, no-one wants Martin Sheens Presidency ever to end!!!! However, the writers do such a splendid job with Series Six that you go along with whatever changes they make - & there are a few.
The West Wing is evolving - the emergence of Alan Alda as a leading Republican is inspired, & episode 11, which sees him on his campaign trail is probably the best all-round West Wing episode I have seen. One thinks that with Alda & NYPD-Blue star Jimmy Smits in the show there is more than enough compensation for any change in the more familiar faces.
Josh is at the forefront & so is Donna, but in wholly unexpected ways. This series is like watching election night but for 15 hours - the candidates all seem so real, & Aldas so good you wouldnt mind the White House going Republican. Who comes out on top? Buy this & find out...
Martin Sheen is an American actor. Sheen was born Ramón Estevez in Dayton, Ohio. He lived on Brown Street in the South Park neighborhood & was one of 9 brothers. He attended Chaminade High School. A Roman Catholic, he adopted the stage name Sheen in honor of priest & theologian Fulton J Sheen. Martin Sheen is of Irish & Spanish extraction. Sheen had wanted to act since he was very young, but his father disapproved. He deliberately flunked out of the University of Dayton so that he could pursue his goal. His first major role was on Broadway, in The Subject Was Roses, which he recreated in the 1968 film of the same name. But he did not receive another important part until 1973, when he starred with Sissy Spacek in the crime drama Badlands. It was his 1979 starring role in Apocalypse Now which gained him fame. On the set of Apocalypese Sheen admits that he wasnt in the greatest shape & was using drugs heavily. On location Sheen had a heart attack & crawled out to a road for help.
Posters Of Martin SheenEditors Choice: A Letter From Death Row, Storm, No Code Of Conduct, Shadrach, Dillinger And Capone, A Matter Of Justice, Da, Gettysburg, View DVDology
Stockard Channing is an American actress. Channing was born as Susan Antonia Williams Stockard in New York City to Lester & Mary Stockard. Channing attended Radcliffe College & Harvard University & has degrees in history & literature. She decided to pursue an acting career, starting in the Boston theatrical community, but eventually working in New York & Los Angeles. One of Channings earliest roles was as The Number Painters victim, in a series of segments on Sesame Street. After brief appearances in 1971s The Hospital & 1972s Up the Sandbox, she landed her first lead role in the acclaimed 1973 television movie The Girl Most Likely To. In 1975, she starred alongside Warren Beatty & Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols The Fortune. In 1978, Channing played the part of Betty Rizzo in the hit musical Grease. On the basis of this, CBS offered her the lead in two short lived television sitcom series, Stockard Channing in Just Friends & The Stockard Channing Show. In the 1980s & 1990s, Channing continued to work in television & film.
Posters Of The West WingEditors Choice: The West Wing, The Business Of Strangers, Walking With Beasts, 6 Degrees Of Separation, Echoes In The Darkness, The Big Bus, Hitler: The Rise Of Evil, Mahler, View DVDology
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