The West Wing

...to "Staten Island" By Kimberly Nordyke LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - FX and former "West Wing" writer/executive producer Lawrence O'Donnell are developing a New York-set police drama. "Staten Island" centers on a compromised...

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...many procedural cousins. "The West Wing" hired several writers with high-level political backgrounds, including Lawrence O'Donnell, a former U.S. Senate committee chief of staff during the Clinton administration. "We were trying to say...

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'West Wing' Writer Lawrence O'Donnell Jr Imagines A Deadlocked Democratic National Convention The Democratic Party is closer than it's ever been to a political nightmare--a deadlocked convention. Though the odds of its actually happening are...

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...a table upfront. Lawrence O'Donnell, the producer of the West Wing, moderated the event. A highlight: He revealed to excited West Wing fans in the crowd that the Jimmy Smits character on West Wing was inspired by former Department of Housing...

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...Moynihan and was the Chief of Staff for the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works before jumping to Hollywood and The West Wing and Big Love. Could the deck be stacked any further against anything Wright says? Watch as...

In this article: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Lawrence O'Donnell, Bill Moyers, and Bill Clinton

...right. An economic crisis does not ensue, but back-to-back emergencies on "The West Wing" a nuclear power plant malfunction and a dispute in Kazakhstan bring to mind the election-defining qualities of the actual economic crisis.

In this article: Barack Obama, John McCain, Arnold Vinick, Lawrence O'Donnell, David Axelrod, Josh Lyman, and Alan Alda

...that followed." Must Read Must Skip In New York, West Wing writer Lawrence O'Donnell pens an entertaining teleplay of every Democrat's worst nightmare: a gridlocked convention in August. Best Culture Piece Good investigates the...

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...through West Wing DVDs, we won't give away the end result. But so far at least, events have been a strange case of art reflecting life, reflecting art. "We ran this campaign in The West Wing before it happened in the country," says O'Donnell.

In this article: Matt Santos, Barack Obama, Arnold Vinick, Jimmy Smits, John McCain, David Axelrod, Alan Alda, and White House

...faces. In the audience I spotted Lorraine Bracco, Joe Pantoliano with wife Nancy, Tony Lo Bianco, former HBO chief Michael Fuchs, "West Wing" writer Lawrence O'Donnell, and even ex spouses Ronald Perelman and Patricia Duff. They sat on...

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