3.03: Ways and Means (with Eli Attie)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We’re joined again by our friend Eli Attie, the former speechwriter to Al Gore who went on to join The West Wing in Season 3. Eli has a ‘story by’ credit on “Ways and Means”, and we dig into what that really means. Plus, we talk about the importance and danger that stage directions can provide actors and politicians.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the West Wing Weekly. I'm Rashique Sherway.
0:09.0	And I'm Josh Wilmelina.
0:10.8	Today we're talking about episode three of season three. It's called Ways and Means.
0:14.8	And we have three time guest Eli Addy.
0:17.6	Yeah.
0:18.6	A great pleasure.
0:19.6	Welcome.
0:20.6	Welcome, Eli.
0:21.6	It's just like when Alec Baldwin hosts Saturday Night Live for his 17th time.
0:25.3	You get like a ring.
0:26.3	Yeah.
0:27.3	It's going to, it might, it looks like it's going to get competitive between you and Brad
0:29.5	but for, you know, the competition, you know, between me and Brad for appearances on
0:34.2	the West Wing Weekly should be about, you know, the importance of, you know, writing versus
0:37.6	acting on episodic television.
0:39.1	No, I'm kidding.
0:40.1	Well, Josh, give us the credit so we can talk about what we're doing.
0:42.6	We are here to discuss the episode titled Ways and Means.
0:46.6	Although I would, parentheses, how CJ got her groove back.
0:50.9	The teleplay is by Aaron Sorkin. The story is by our esteemed guest Eli Addy and Gene
0:56.3	Spurling.
0:57.3	The episode was directed by Alex Graves and at first aired on October 24th, 2001.
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