Maureen Ryan, the Chicago Tribune’s TV afficianado, posted a piece today about Aaron Sorkin’s appearance for the Television Critics Association. Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was an Internet whipping boy throughout 2006. A bloggers delight. The NBC drama has been taking much deserved heat from the press, and Maureen has a recap of Sorkin’s (sprawling?) defense.

The end result of Sorkin’s hourlong aria to the critics clustered around the giant oval desk in the “Studio 60” writers’ room? I just don’t know what the man wants.

He said he doesn’t mind critiques or negative press. “It’s the cost of doing business,” he said more than once. “Not everything is for everybody.”

But it’s hard to square those remarks with several of Sorkin’s statements on Tuesday. First, his contention that the press isn’t writing about the content of his show, and is only focused on its disappointing ratings, doesn’t ring true.

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Writer Ben Schwartz wrote articles for both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times last week. Both articles are related to comics, and both articles are essential reading if you’re interested in this sort of thing. Ben is a friend and an excellent writer to be representing the industry on these subjects.

Los Angeles Times — on Drew Friedman

New York Times — on comic strips being collected, and the collectors that make it possible.

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Columnist Steven Grant has an interesting piece on Jim Steranko’s recent involvment in a situation where art he had donated to a university collection may or may not have been sold/stolen after the head of the collection passed away.  Grant, as always, has some excellent commentary.

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I’ve been waiting for this for a while. Two of my faves, Brian Wood and Matthew Woodson collaborating on an OGN for Top Shelf. Like any good Brian Wood yarn, we have here a young (angsty) man with headphones and a bandage about the face. And here’s the equally “Woodian” premise…

“Following up on the time-honored adage “you can’t go home again”, Dogs Day End details the personal journey of 30-year-old Andrew Maguire, pulled back to the small upstate hometown by his mother as she enters the final stages of cancer. Once back, he revisits the demons of his youth: his estranged father, resentful ex-buddies, and his jilted high school sweetheart. As the twin pressures of the past and the present threaten to bury him, Andrew makes an all-or-nothing decision to come to terms with it all.”

Sign me up…

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Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow has joined the cast of “Iron Man,” a Marvel Comics superhero movie starring Robert Downey Jr. Downey plays the armor-clad title character and his alter ego, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark. Terrence Howard will play Stark’s best friend Rhodey.

Via Levine Breaking News.
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