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BACKSTAGE ANGST.

The New Yorker

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Aaron Sorkin must love television--only someone who loves it could savage the medium so. The first episode of his unfailingly enjoyable NBC drama, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," about the backstage maneuverings at a late-night comedy show, opens with the program's weary executive producer, Wes Mendell (Judd Hirsch, in a growling cameo), losing a battle with a censor at his network, NBS. When he is told that he can't run a sketch called "Crazy Christians," Wes snaps. He interrupts the live broadcast and tells viewers to switch off their sets. Observing that "people are having contests to see how much they can be like Donald Trump," and "we're eating worms for money," he ...

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