Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin confesses his admiration for Don Quixote
Aaron Sorkin is the biggest fan of the Man of la Mancha. The creator of the TV series The Newsroom, the first cable series from Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning creator of The West Wing and writer of The Social Networkexplains in this interview why most of his lead characters are based in the figure of Don Quixote.His new show is not just a return to television but a series about television in particular, television news and its squandered powers As we watch, the anchorman at its center, Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), has a kind of political awakening, shedding his status as “the Jay Leno of news anchors” and reinventing himself as an iconoclastic,