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Article: White House staffers on 'West Wing' come from casting office
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 25, 2001
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President Bush, still fighting to get his controversial nominee
for attorney general confirmed by the Senate, would probably like a
job like Aaron Sorkin's. When the creator of NBC's "The West Wing"
wants to give someone a job in his White House, he just calls the
casting office. And when he's finished with his appointees, they're
off the payroll until he wants them again.
In fact, aside from President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and his
immediate staff, no one is full time in Sorkin's White House, where
even the vice president (Tim Matheson) and the first lady (Stockard
Channing) are day players.
But before our new Republican president seizes on the usual
liberal "West Wing" as a model for ...