i think underneath it, you do like to make your point. some of the criticism the reviews i ve seen is not centered around the show or jeff, but this sorkinism, somehow an offensive new term for the polemic stuff you put in and i really enjoy, i suspect some people don t. tell me about that criticism you get. i do enjoy it. i enjoy language very much. it sounds like music to me. i enjoy oratory. that s the reason for the long speeches. i grew up in a family where anyone who said one word when they could have used 10 just wasn t trying hard enough. i was the dumbest kid in my family. i d sit at the dinner table just listening to fantastic arguments, like i was listening to a tennis match. i grew to really like that. i loved the sound of a point really well made, of somebody saying, but you haven t thought of it this way. think about that. what if this were to happen. as a writer, i grew up wanting to imitate that sound. a fantastic speech at the start of episode one, your c
where they shot the morninkees and we re going for the exact same thing. you say all this stuff. i think underneath it, you do like to make your point. some of the criticism the reviews i ve seen is not centered around the show or jeff, but this sorkinism, somehow an offensive new term for the polemic stuff you put in and i really enjoy, i suspect some people don t. tell me about that criticism you get. i do enjoy it. i enjoy language very much. it sounds like music to me. i enjoy oratory. that s the reason for the long speeches. i grew up in a family where anyone who said one word when they could have used 10 just wasn t trying hard enough. i was the dumbest kid in my family. i d sit at the dinner table just listening to fantastic arguments, like i was listening to a tennis match. i grew to really like that. i loved the sound of a point really well made, of somebody saying, but you haven t thought of it this way. think about that. what if this were to happen. as a write
you had to host an event which was completely overtaken by the drama of losing one of the greatest entertainers in the world. after you heard what happened, what was your reaction? my first reaction was horrified. you know, you hear rumors about things that people are going through, and that s always tough, you know, to listen to, but i didn t expect to get that news. and the timing of it was just, you know it was horrible. did you know whitney well? yes, i knew whitney. she was a very sweet girl. very sweet girl. so funny, i used to walk around, for many years i wore my pants leg rolled up, something i was known for, having one pants leg rolled up. i did the same thing. yeah. and, you know, whitney used to tease me, i remember one time she told me backstage, oh, ll, you got that from my husband. i said, no, whitney, your husband got that from me. that was a fun moment. she was really cool, like, when i worked in miami, a couple of times, they came by the studio and
grammys were a couple of days away and then whitney houston died. you had to host an event which was completely overtaken by the drama of losing one of the greatest entertainers in the world. after you heard what happened, what was your reaction? my first reaction was horrified. you know, you hear rumors about things that people are going through, and that s always tough, you know, to listen to, but i didn t expect to get that news. and the timing of it was just, you know it was horrible. did you know whitney well? yes, i knew whitney. she was a very sweet girl. very sweet girl. so funny, i used to walk around, for many years i wore my pants leg rolled up, something i was known for, having one pants leg rolled up. i did the same thing. yeah. and, you know, whitney used to tease me, i remember one time she told me backstage, oh, ll, you got that from my husband. i said, no, whitney, your husband got that from me. that was a fun moment. she was really cool, like, when
you had to host an event which was completely overtaken by the drama of losing one of the greatest entertainers in the world. after you heard what happened, what was your reaction? my first reaction was horrified. you know, you hear rumors about things that people are going through, and that s always tough, you know, to listen to, but i didn t expect to get that news. and the timing of it was just, you know it was horrible. did you know whitney well? yes, i knew whitney. she was a very sweet girl. very sweet girl. so funny, i used to walk around, for many years i wore my pants leg rolled up, something i was known for, having one pants leg rolled up. i did the same thing. yeah. and, you know, whitney used to tease me, i remember one time she told me backstage, oh, ll, you got that from my husband. i said, no, whitney, your husband got that from me. that was a fun moment. she was really cool, like, when i worked in miami, a couple of times, they came by the studio and