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“The Long Lead Story,” and Golden Globe glory

by Terri

Aaron SorkinIf you’re watching along in my Studio 60 Revisited Monday night marathon, tonight we’re viewing episode five, “The Long Lead Story,” which originally aired on October 16, 2006. It’s the one in which live-in journalist Martha O’Dell tries to get to the bottom of the Matt-Harriet situation, as if there was a bottom to get to. The staff is, predictably, spectacularly unhelpful in keeping any secrets about the twosome.

Join me, too, in congratulating Studio 60 creator Aaron Sorkin on his Golden Globe nomination for the screenplay of Charlie Wilson’s War, which finally hits theaters this Friday. Competing with Sorkin for Best Screenplay are Christopher Hampton for Atonement, Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Diablo Cody for Juno, and Ethan and Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men.

Also nominated for Charlie Wilson’s War are:

+ Tom Hanks for Best Actor - Musical or Comedy (competing against Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd; Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl; Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages; and John C. Reilly, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

+ Julia Roberts for Best Supporting Actress (competing against Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There; Saoirse Ronan, Atonement; Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone; and Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

+ Philip Seymour Hoffman for Best Supporting Actor (competing against Casey Affleck, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford; Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men; John Travolta, Hairspray; Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

+ The movie itself as Best Picture - Musical or Comedy (competing against Across the Universe, Hairspray, Juno and Sweeney Todd).

You can get more information on the movie from its website.

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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a show about making a show -- a Friday night sketch comedy living and dying by the ratings and the buzz and the bottom line. It also turned out to be about the ways that overinflated expectations and caustic criticism can doom a TV drama. Still, if you're a fan of great acting and Aaron Sorkin's way with dialog, there's a lot to love in Studio 60's sole season. Read here to look back at the show, and look forward at what the cast and creative powers are doing now.

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