During the 2004 US presidential election campaign, the liberal advocacy group MoveOn's political action committee enlisted Sorkin and Rob Reiner to create one of their anti-Bush campaign advertisements.
In August 2008, Sorkin was involved in a Generation Obama event at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills, California, participating in a panel discussion subsequent to a screening of Frank Capra's Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
Despite this Sorkin does not consider himself a political activist noting "I've met political activists, and they're for real. I've never marched anyplace or done anything that takes more effort than writing a check in terms of activism".
Guess who is sexist? A liberal.
And THAT is why they are called Actresses......, no wait - somehing’s very wrong here....
And he loves drugs. Remember when he was caught at the airport with magic mushrooms?
I hate Hollywood, I hate the NoKos, and I hate race baiters like Sharpton... and this juicy email dump crime has the very real possibility of damaging all three below the waterline.
Liberals ripping each other apart! I love it!
It goes without saying that these guys despise women, given the drivel that passes for screenwriting. Dreadful, condescending drively nonsense that is an insult to talent and audience alike seems to be their raison d’etre, so what’s his point?
< antiflame type=asbestos >
You could say the same about real life. < /anti flame >
They’re busy SINKING their own ship.
Everything Sorkin said is true. The “bar is higher” to take home the Best Actor Oscar because there’s more competition. Because most leading roles in films are written for males. Because movies with males in the lead make more money. It isn’t sexism — it’s statistics.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. “Gravity” starring Sandra Bullock made tons of money. But that’s an outlier. An exception. Disney Princess movies are also an exception. But are animated roles really Leading Actress parts? Generally speaking, Hollywood does not put women in the lead. Check what’s playing at the multiplex right now. I’m talking about “by and large,” “in general,” and “for the most part.”
If there are no show-offy, tour-de-force parts for actresses to play — no roles where they lose fifty pounds, or simulate addiction, or autism, or go billionaire-to-rags, then there are no female show-offy, tour-de-force performances, a la “Dallas Buyers Club” or “Leaving Las Vegas” or “Rain Man” or “Forest Gump” or “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
Sorkin is right when he says scooping up the Best Actress Oscar for “Blue Jasmine” is a cakewalk when your only competition is whoever played Ironman’s girlfriend or The Wolf of Wall Street’s stripper wife. In the paltry five scenes The Girlfriend/Wife of Leading Man had in the whole movie.
So Sorkin may be an annoying hack who, by the way, can’t write for women at all — all his female characters sound like men — who all sound like each other — who all sound like Aaron Sorkin — but he’s right about it being a lot easier to win the Best Actress Oscar than Best Actor Oscar.
I’m just glad we can count on the press to aid and abet the cyber-terrorists.
Sexist, racist, leftist. They all go together like peas and carrots.
Democrats - the Party of Bigotry.