Taking Out the Trash for the period ending Apr 25, 2015
General
Ellie, or, how to court controversy.
Somebody’s Going To Emergency, Somebody’s Going To Jail, or, the restorative power of a new shirt.
Barney Frank thinks the show is the best one ever done about politics.
ABC’s Scandal swiped most of its Oval Office décor from the show.
Senior Staff
Eli Attie discusses going from The White House to the show.
Martin Sheen did an updated Doomsday video for John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight.
Everybody Else
Mary Louise Parker (Amy Gardner) will announce the 2015 Tony nominations on 28 Apr.
Melissa Fitzgerald (Carol) is shooting the movie Courting Des Moines in Iowa.
Variety has a review of Roger Rees’s (Lord John Marbury) current role on Broadway.
A review of John de Lancie (Al Keifer) in the South Coast Repertory’s production of Mr. Wolf.
Oliver Platt (Oliver Babish) wrote about Bradley Cooper for Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.
Elisabeth Moss’s (Zoey) turn in Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles will close on 3 May.
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