Morning Wood: John Gallagher, Jr.

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Can we just call The Newsroom The Jim Show? J/k lol, not really. Kidding.

Here's why John Gallagher, Jr. is a babe: His last name is Gallagher. He's a Gemini. He plays a dorky, workaholic named Jim on HBO's The Newsroom (my latest television obsession/writing inspiration).

A quick google search informed me that he won a Tony in 2007 for Spring Awakening, so that covers the Talent Boner portion of my lust. And for whatever reason (likely that he's a Gemini) his can pull off a variety of looks - short hair, long, glasses, facial hair, smiling, not smiling, and still be so...

'The Newsroom' Is The Best Scripted Reality Show On Television

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I'm officially obsessed with The Newsroom. I finished the first season in two days, and I'll likely rewatch it four times before the end of the week.

photo from: hellogiggles.com

I finally got into Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom over Thanksgiving. I'd been interested in the show from its first previews, and even attempted to get started on it this summer, but was unsurprisingly distracted by the naked crazy artist/musician on top of me at the time...

The show presents imperfect humans (Will, Mac, Jim, Maggie, Don, Sloane, Charlie, and Reese)  inside a controlled environment (the newsroom, the network), making their best attempts at achieving some ideal condition through passionate action. Everyone involved in News Night 2.0 is intensely committed to journalistic integrity, with the aim of honestly informing the electorate and holding politicians accountable.