The West Wing: Last News

Die Hard 2 and Coming To America, died from congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital, it has been confirmed.According to a death certificate obtained by People, no other significant medical conditions were listed as having contributed to his death.The actor passed away on August 21 his son, Kelly Christopher Amos, announced on Tuesday (October 1).Amos played the character Major Grant in Die Hard 2 alongside Bruce Willis and was famously known for his role as Cleo McDowell in Coming To America and Coming To America 2, who had a rival fast food chain to McDonald’s.

Die Hard 2 and Coming To America star John Amos has died, aged 84.The actor passed away on August 21 in Los Angeles his son, Kelly Christopher Amos, announced yesterday (October 1). He died of natural causes.“It is with heartfelt sadness that I share with you that my father has transitioned,” Amos said in a statement (via The Hollywood Reporter).

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has said he is considering rebooting the show after celebrating its 25th anniversary at the White House.The political drama, ran between 1999 and 2006, focusing on the fictitious administration of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen).Last week the cast of the show reunited at the 76th Emmy Awards and Sorkin recently said that it would be “implausible” to make the Republican Party look “reasonable” if the show was made today.Now, after attending the White House on Friday (September 20) with Sheen and the rest of the show’s stars including Richard Schiff, Dulé Hill, Janel Moloney, Emily Procter, Melissa Fitzgerald, and Mary McCormack, he told Variety: “I didn’t think about it seriously, frankly, until today… We’ll see what happens when I wake up tomorrow. But, if you’re asking me now, this is how I feel.”He continued: “I just got a couple of ideas for episodes just walking around the White House.

visited the White House on Friday that he’s thinking about reviving the show.“If I had an idea, sure,” Sorkin, 63, told Variety. “I didn’t think about it seriously, frankly, until today… We’ll see what happens when I wake up tomorrow.

With President Joe Biden away from the White House, it was left Friday to another man with Oval Office experience to stand at the front of the Rose Garden and give a rousing call to service.Martin Sheen and others from the cast of “The West Wing,” the hit drama about a liberal president and his staff, were invited by first lady Jill Biden for an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the show.Sheen exhorted the crowd to find something worth fighting for, “something deeply personal and uncompromising, something that can unite the will of the spirit with the work of the flesh.”His voice and hands rose, his cadence matching perfectly that of President Jed Bartlet, the character Sheen played for seven seasons.“When we find that, we will discover fire for the second time, and then we will be able to help lift up this nation and all its people to that place where the heart is without fear, and their head is held high,” Sheen said.“The West Wing” remains a favorite of many who now work in Washington, both liberal and conservative. Among those spotted in the Rose Garden were House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Joe Walsh, once a tea party-aligned Illinois congressman who is now a sharp critic of former President Donald Trump and supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.Asked to name his favorite character, Walsh replied, “I’m partial to Martin Sheen because I want to be president one day.” (Walsh ran and lost a longshot Republican primary challenge to Trump in 2020.)It was clear in the speeches and the party’s touches that at least a few “West Wing” fans work in the White House.There was the US Marine Band playing the opening notes to the show’s theme as Biden and the cast walked out.

The West Wing cast reunited at the 76th Emmy Awards last night (September 15) ahead of the show’s 25th anniversary.Stars Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Dulé Hill, Janel Moloney and Richard Schiff appeared on a replica set of the Oval Office before presenting the Best Drama Series, which was won by Shōgun.During their segment, Janney also took a pop at the current state of politics as she said: “It’s hard to believe that 25 years ago, Aaron and the writers actually had to use their imaginations to create interesting plot lines for The West Wing.”Schiff added: “Unlike today, where story lines can be plucked right off the news, storylines that writers would have deemed a bit far-fetched, if not utterly ridiculous 25 years ago.”Full video of The West Wing Cast presenting at the 2024 Emmy Awards!#Emmys pic.twitter.com/ZaX09vS1Xj— Kenny (@kennysroys) September 16, 2024It comes 25 years after the show launched on NBC, on September 22, 1999. It ran for seven seasons.Earlier Bradley Whitford, who played Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, announced that he couldn’t be in attendance due to filming commitments.“It breaks my heart not to be able to be with my ‘West Wing’ family at the Emmys tonight or at the White House later this week to celebrate our 25th birthday, but I’m in Budapest on another White House set pretending to work for another administration.

Emmys 2024 ceremony had us screaming, “Bartlet for America!” “The West Wing” stars Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Dulé Hill, Richard Schiff, Janel Moloney took the Emmys stage to present the award for outstanding drama series. The cast began the segment huddle around the famed Resolute desk in a recreation of the Oval Office before celebrating the show’s 25th anniversary.

The West Wing star Bradley Whitford has criticised Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines over her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s backing for Donald Trump.Kennedy Jr dropped out of the presidential race last week and endorsed the former president in his attempt for re-election.Whitford, who is a vocal Democrat supporter, slammed Hines for not speaking out against her husband for doing so.Tagging her in a post on X, which also shows a video of Trump boasting that his Supreme Court nominees helped to overturn the Roe v.

today’s Republican Party is nothing like the one in “The West Wing.”Sorkin, who created the ’90s political drama series, spoke at a Los Angeles event for his upcoming book on Saturday and addressed what he thinks the show would look like if made in the present day.“What would be different would be this, and I don’t want to get a rumble started over anything. I’m afraid to say that right now — and maybe things will be different a year from now or two years from now, but right now — it would be implausible that the opposition party, that the Republican Party, was reasonable,” the 63-year-old TV writer said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.“People would watch that and it would be unfamiliar to them as the country that they live in,” added Sorkin.

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has suggested how the show would be made differently in today’s political climate.The classic political drama, which ran between 1999 and 2006, focuses on the fictitious administration of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen).Speaking at an event to promote new book What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service, Sorkin admitted that it would be “implausible” to make the Republican Party look “reasonable” today.“Honestly, I think it would [work] for roughly the same reason it worked when it did, which is that, first of all, it was a good show, just good stories well told by a great group of people,” he said (via The Hollywood Reporter).“But by and large, in popular culture, our leaders are portrayed either as Machiavellian or as dolts, right? It’s either a House of Cards or Veep.“The idea behind The West Wing was what if they were as competent and as dedicated as the doctors and nurses on hospital shows, the cops on the cop shows, the lawyers on a legal drama? That kind of thing. And the result was something that was idealistic and it was aspirational,” he explained.“What would be different [today] would be this, and I don’t want to get a rumble started over anything.

According to a CNN release, Lowe had left the show because he “was disenchanted over the unwillingness of producers to raise his $75,000-an-episode salary” while the show’s lead Martin Sheen was paid $300,000 per episode. Lowe released a statement at the time, saying his character did not fit the show anymore before he returned for two episodes during the show’s final season.He compared his departure to walking away from the “most popular girl at school.”“She’s the popular girl, everybody likes her, she’s beautiful, it must be great, all the things that people would say about making “The West Wing” to me.

Dulé Hill reunites with his co-star, Bradley Whitford, on the latest episode of, and only ET exclusively debuts a sneak peek from their mini-reunion.On Wednesday's episode, titled «Bill's New Friend,» Whitford plays Alan Van Der Kamp, Dean's (EJ Williams) music teacher, who surprises Bill (Hill) with his extensive knowledge of the jazz music scene.In ET's exclusive clip, Bill enters Alan's band room with a bone to pick about his son's grade in his music class. The issue stirs up some confusion for Alan, who tells Bill he gave Dean an «A.»Apparently, the «A» is the problem.«Yes, and I think we both can agree he doesn't deserve that,» Bill tells him, «and his grade should be lowered.»«OK, this is a first,» an amused Alan replies.«I don't mean any disrespect.

Actor Rob Lowe ditched plans to write another book of funny life stories in favour of turning the premise into a new podcast.