The West Wing Weekly

The Candidate

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Is The Candidate, in fact, the anti-West Wing? A political story that ends not with a bang, but with a question of existential dread.

  • Interview with screenwriter Jeremy Larner in Brooklyn Magazine
  • The trailer for Downhill Racer (1969)
  • Jerry Seinfeld on Letterman: "You're rooting for clothes."

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