5 Responses to “A West Wing Thanksgiving”

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   commish November 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

   Did you see Toby (Richard Schiff) in The Sarah Connors Chronicles this week? It’s strange to see people from The West Wing show up years later on different shows and basically look the same. Of course, he had been set back from the future so what would we expect.

   I remember the first episolde I watched. I didn’t know what I was watching but knew it was something so special and different from what else was on TV. It had heart and reflected the values which drove the 60’s but were long gone by the time the show aired and then thrived. Interestingly, the theme of we Dub fans about believing is the same hope The West Wing gave me– that some day a really decent president would emerge who could bring people together and lead this country. In playing poker we say “MOT” or matter of time. I guess we are all in the same boat waiting for the Dubs to be what we so hope they will become.

   Thanks for the look back at a truly great program that touched our lives.

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   Geoff Lepper November 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

   I did not see Richard Schiff on there, but I did see him in a guest turn on “Burn Notice” last year, and it really did leave me a little off-kilter. Same thing with watching Allison Janney in “Juno.”

   Interestingly, I don’t have the same problem with Elisabeth Moss in “Mad Men” or Dule Hill in “Psych.” Maybe it was just because they weren’t so prominent in TWW.

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   commish November 28th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

   Schiff’s character in Burn Notice was a lot like that in the Terminator knockoff. I liked Janney in Juno but what is not to like in that charming movie. I’ll have to check out Moss in Mad Men because I did not notice her. Probably my bad or I was distracted by the Jane Russell look alike secretaries.

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   JoeSez November 28th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

   commish! Not notice Peggy?

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   commish November 28th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

   I didn’t remember her as Zoey but I sure enjoyed Jamel Moloney who had a pretty good role last year in the fabulous Brotherhood.