Old Navy pitchwoman/demented sprite-from-hell Kristin Chenoweth - whom some have confused for a talented star of stage and screen - is fightin’ mad at ex Aaron Sorkin, whose awful new show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is allegedly based, in part, on their relationship.
I was unlucky enough to sample Studio 60 the other night. It’s another self-righteous dramedy in which Sorkinbots fire rat-a-tat dialogue at each other while walking down hallways. Only this time it’s about the creators of a Saturday Night Live-style sketch comedy show. And no one on it is funny.
Out-of-the-closet thespian Sarah Paulson plays a sprite-like star of stage and screen - who happens, like Chenoweth, to be a devout Christian. Bradley Whitford plays a showrunner whose arrest on drug charges has sullied his career. Unlike Sorkin, who was busted for crack possession, Whitford’s character was a cokehead. So it’s totally different.
Anyway, on the show, Paulson’s character is having an affair with the showrunner played by Matthew Perry, so it’s worth noting that Chenoweth was briefly a cast member on Sorkin’s The West Wing. Basically, then, her allegations that Sorkin has cribbed liberally from their real-life experiences as a couple are probably totally accurate, and Sorkin’s incredibly smug assumption that America’s TV audiences are hungering for the inside dirt on his relationship with Kristin Chenoweth makes us despise him and the show even more.
Truly, cancellation cannot come soon enough.
6:46 PM: Updated to correct my mix-up of Perry and Whitford’s characters. Jeez, it’s not like I was watching sober.
Kristin Chenoweth tells The New York Dog Magazine she wants 10 percent from her ex, Aaron Sorkin [Yahoo!]
Actually Whitford’s character did not have a relationship with Paulson’s — that relationship was between Paulson’s character and Matthew Perry’s. Maybe you should watch more closely before you write a smear-story.
Actually Whitford’s character did not have a relationship with Paulson’s — that relationship was between Paulson’s character and Matthew Perry’s. Maybe you should watch more closely before you write a smear-story.
read more carefully…
Anyway, on the show, Paulson’s character is having an affair with the showrunner played by Matthew Perry,