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fix name swap in Sports Night example


** In ''Series/SportsNight'' Casey and Dan discuss the Three Dog Night song "Eli's coming" and that it represents "something bad" that's just around the corner. At the end of the episode, it plays when Dan has to share some bad news with Casey (with the latter in the anchor's seat, with seconds back no less). The episode fades to black as the song reaches its full power and a devastated Casey tries to keep his composure on live TV.

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** In ''Series/SportsNight'' Casey and Dan discuss the Three Dog Night song "Eli's coming" and that it represents "something bad" that's just around the corner. At the end of the episode, it plays when Dan Casey has to share some bad news with Casey Dan (with the latter in the anchor's seat, with seconds back no less). The episode fades to black as the song reaches its full power and a devastated Casey Dan tries to keep his composure on live TV.
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** In ''Series/SportsNight'' Casey and Dan discuss the Three Dog Night song "Eli's coming" and that it represents "something bad" that's just around the corner. At the end of the episode, Dan has to share some bad news with Casey (with the latter in the anchor's seat, with seconds back no less). The episode fades to black as the song reaches its full power and a devastated Casey tries to keep his composure on live TV.

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** In ''Series/SportsNight'' Casey and Dan discuss the Three Dog Night song "Eli's coming" and that it represents "something bad" that's just around the corner. At the end of the episode, it plays when Dan has to share some bad news with Casey (with the latter in the anchor's seat, with seconds back no less). The episode fades to black as the song reaches its full power and a devastated Casey tries to keep his composure on live TV.
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add Suspiciously Apropos Music as it's one of Sorkin's signature moves

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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Sorkin plays around with characters' knowledge of music/songs and the different ways a soundtrack selection (frequently a high point of a Sorkin episode) can be set up in a diegetic or in-character way.
** In ''Series/SportsNight'' Casey and Dan discuss the Three Dog Night song "Eli's coming" and that it represents "something bad" that's just around the corner. At the end of the episode, Dan has to share some bad news with Casey (with the latter in the anchor's seat, with seconds back no less). The episode fades to black as the song reaches its full power and a devastated Casey tries to keep his composure on live TV.
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* ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' [[note]] New book for the 2022 Broadway revival of the musical[[/note]]
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* WalkAndTalk: His stuff is a TropeCodifier (and former TropeNamer: "SorkinWalk"), to the point of a moment in ''Series/TheWestWing'' where the characters who've just done it stop and wonder where the heck they're going.

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* WalkAndTalk: His stuff is a TropeCodifier (and former TropeNamer: "SorkinWalk"), to the point of a moment in ''Series/TheWestWing'' where the characters who've just done it stop and wonder where the heck they're going. He made a point of avoiding it in ''Series/TheNewsroom'', utilizing it exactly once in the pilot episode and never again after that.
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* ''Film/TheTrialOfTheChicago7'' (2020)

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* ''Film/TheTrialOfTheChicago7'' (2020)(2020, directed as well)
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* ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' (1992)

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* ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' (1992)(1992) [[note]] Based on his 1989 play[[/note]]
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* ''Film/ExcessBaggage'' (1997, uncredited)
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** Martin Sheen once told a story about trying to convince Sorkin that he should read a punctuation mark in one of his scripts as a semi-colon instead of a hyphen. According to Sheen, he gave a very long explanation, to which Sorkin only responded, "I'll think about it." That's how seriously Sorkin regards the text of his scripts.

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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. He's the man behind ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'', ''Series/SportsNight'', ''Series/TheNewsroom'' and ''Series/TheWestWing''. His scripts have many distinctive traits, including a dialogue style known for timing and finesse that has garnered the moniker "Sorkinese". His shows are also notorious for characters [[WalkAndTalk walking down hallways]] while [[{{Exposition}} expositing]] at [[MotorMouth high speed]].

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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, director, producer and playwright. He's the man behind ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'', ''Series/SportsNight'', ''Series/TheNewsroom'' and ''Series/TheWestWing''. His scripts have many distinctive traits, including a dialogue style known for timing and finesse that has garnered the moniker "Sorkinese". His shows are also notorious for characters [[WalkAndTalk walking down hallways]] while [[{{Exposition}} expositing]] at [[MotorMouth high speed]].



* ''Film/MollysGame'' (2017) [[note]]also directorial debut[[/note]]

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* ''Film/MollysGame'' (2017) [[note]]also (2017, directorial debut[[/note]]debut)



* ''Film/BeingTheRicardos'' (2021, directed as well)



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His most recent venture into Television, the {{Creator/HBO}} TV series ''Series/TheNewsroom'', starring Creator/JeffDaniels premiered in 2012 and ended with a shortened final season in December 2014. Unlike several of his other TV projects, ''The Newsroom'' was not canceled by the network and he also wasn't thrown out (as happened on ''The West Wing'') but he thought the story and characters did not provide material for more seasons. Sorkin has since stated in interviews that he does not want to write anything but theater and feature length movies in the future, explicitly citing that ''Series/TheWestWing'' is a ToughActToFollow.

He had a well known on/off relationship with Creator/KristinChenoweth for several years. He is not related to Creator/ArleenSorkin.

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His most recent venture into Television, television, the {{Creator/HBO}} TV series ''Series/TheNewsroom'', starring Creator/JeffDaniels premiered in 2012 and ended with a shortened final season in December 2014. Unlike several of his other TV projects, ''The Newsroom'' was not canceled by the network and he also wasn't thrown out (as happened on ''The West Wing'') but he thought the story and characters did not provide material for more seasons. Sorkin has since stated in interviews that he does not want to write anything but theater and feature length movies in the future, explicitly citing that ''Series/TheWestWing'' is a ToughActToFollow.

He had a well known well-known on/off relationship with Creator/KristinChenoweth for several years. He is not related to Creator/ArleenSorkin.
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->''Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.''

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->''Roxy ->''"Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.''
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* ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'' (1998, uncredited)

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