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NBC, America's Most Desperate Network™, won a bidding war with CBS for Aaron Sorkin's Studio 7, a Larry Sanders-esque drama about a Saturday Night Live-ish variety show. Sorkin's previous credits include creating The West Wing and Sports Night, writing A Few Good Men, and exploring altered states of consciousness through the intake of various hallucinogens and narcotics. This is how the LAT concludes its piece on the Studio 7 sale:
After "The West Wing's" second season, Sorkin was arrested at Burbank Airport on charges of possession of cocaine, hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana (the charges were later dismissed after he completed a rehabilitation program).He once told TV Guide that he smoked crack every day while writing his 1995 film "The American President." "That is why it took me three years to write the script," he said.
Poor guy. You get popped for drug possession at an airport and admit to three years of incredibly dedicated pipe-hitting to TV Guide (Reader's Digest found the story too hard-hitting, apparently) and no one will ever let you live it down. At this point, though, NBC's Kevin Reilly would happily blast some heroin between Sorkin's toes if he thought it might save his job.
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