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Just saw this on E! Online and thought I'd post. I was just thinking the other day there hasn't been a good baseball movie in awhile, and now Sorkin is writing one. :)

Aaron Sorkin is ready to play ball.

With Steven Soderbergh dropping out of its Brad Pitt vehicle Moneyball, due to the usual "creative differences," Columbia Pictures is aiming to get the baseball film back on base by hiring West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin to give it a nice polish so it can move into production.

But exactly who will be taking the reins on the project is another matter.

The studio's president, Amy Pascal, put the brakes on Moneyball last month because she wasn't keen on the Ocean's Thirteen helmer's less-than-commercial vision for Steven Zaillian's latest draft, which the studio loved but which he wanted to turn into a docudrama featuring interviews with real-life ballplayers interspersed as vignettes throughout the story.

Consequently Variety reports that Soderbergh opted to leave Moneyball days before he was due to start lensing. Pitt, however, still remains committed to playing the lead in the adaptation of Michael Lewis' nonfiction best-seller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.

Looking for some relief down the home stretch, Pascal and company turned to Sorkin, the Emmy-winning writer-producer behind TV's West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,who earned accolades earlier in his career for penning such films as A Few Good Men, The American President and more recently Charlie Wilson's War.

Sorkin just finished writing The Social Network, a drama chronicling the founding of Facebook, for Benjamin Button filmmaker David Fincher.

If all goes well, the scribe is expected to turn in his version in August, at which point the studio hopes to have chosen a new director to commence production.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b133494_sorkin_penning_pitts_moneyball.html
 

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Flour: Hi I’m Flour.  If you take me home, I can make you feel good.

Erin: My, but that flour is fresh!

Flour: No really!  I have no gluten, I won’t make you hate me.  You might even love me because I let you eat bread.

Erin: Oh, well, in that case, nice to meet you.

Flour: And you as well.  Did I tell you I can fill many roles, as well as become many rolls?

Erin: I knew that actually…  You come in a LOT of different forms.  Almost too many one might say…

Flour: But I’m so much fun to work with!  I think you and I would work very well together!  Please work with me!

Erin: I think maybe we should just be friends.  Someone else might work with you better, but I’m not great at baking except for those few things I did really well with Glutenous Flour…  I’m not really in the baking mood anymore now that Glutenous Flour has betrayed me and caused me so much pain and discomfort.

Flour: Oh… well, I understand…  I guess I could just get someone else to work with me and then you and I can hang out together afterward…  But don’t you think you could just give me a chance?  I’m not like that Glutenous Flour.  I swear!  Just give me a chance, and I’m sure after we work together awhile it’ll be like we were friends our whole lives!

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I got a bunch of gluten-free flour… as you can probably tell from that picture up there.  The experimenting will commence soon, probably will results and more pictures.  I miss bread.  I really really really miss bread.  But I can’t eat it if it has gluten in it, and I really don’t like rice bread.  You would laugh if you knew how old that loaf of rice bread in our fridge is… you know, the one with just a piece or missing from it.  Several loaves just like it have gone the same way, so I’ve decided to stop trying to like it and figure out how to make some bread myself.

The thing is, I used to make great bread.  Like really good bread.  Squishy, chewy, crusty, fluffy, light, tasty bread.  I’d already been having problems making it down here, and was attempting to figure out why LA won’t let my bread by yummy when I found out about the gluten issues.  So imagine my frustration when I realized I would just have to make my own bread…  without wheat flour.

I don’t know how.  Not even a little bit.  I don’t know about the qualities of the proteins in the various flours, and the books I’ve looked through and blogs I’ve scoured all have recipes.  I’ve found thousands of recipes, but with no knowledge of the qualities of the ingredients, I don’t even know what I would expect from the recipes, so I have no way of choosing one over the others.  To make matters worse, most of the recipe authors either haven’t expressed an opinion on rice bread, or they actually like it and are making bread just for the fun of it.

Okay, yeah, yeah.  Bread making can be fun.  I used to have fun with it.  All that flour, that smell, that taste!  Of course I loved it!

Anyway…  The experiments are forthcoming.  We’ll see if Flour is as good as he says he is.  We’ll see if he really does know how to make me feel good.  At the very least, he brought his friends Gluten-Free Oats and Gluten-Free Stealcut Oats, and I’m sure they’ll be fun to hang with.

Oh that other friend sitting next to him… That’s Reading Greek, one of my Ancient Greek textbooks.  I love Ancient Greek, but I will rave about that later.