SN Notes

[out_there]

these are just random SN notes I took the last time we watched S1. I found them in the back of my book and figured I might as well type them up.


Random SN notes:

General:
- According to Jeremy, the first show of Sports Night was screen 2 months, 2 years and a week before the The Pilot.
- When doing a 15 second promo ten minutes before the show, both Dan and Casey are at the desk to record it, and then sit there for until the show starts.
- Ad breaks are either two or two and half minutes back
- Casey and Dan have a bar fridge in their office, between the couch and the glass wall.
- SN crew are on the 49th floor, and Rebecca works on the 37th floor.


Dan:
- Likes dry martinis at the Oak Bar
- Calls Casey "Case" twice over the two seasons
- Calls Natalie "Nat" during Mary Pat Shelby and the following episode. (Nicknames seem to be used only when very concerned about the person.)
- Stayed up 72 hours straight for a biochem exam which he aced.


Casey:
- On air voice is slightly higher than off-air
- Has a Wyoming University sweatshirt (Probably his alma mater)
- Climbs at his local gym, which has a Class 3 Mountain (Dana refers to it as the "Big Apple Health and Racket Club" but I don't know if that's mockery, or supposed to be the actual name.)


Natalie:
- Has a Journalism degree from Northwestern


Jeremy:
- Mentions back home in Boston
- Is a "research analyst with a degree in Applied Mathematics"
- Has a deaf sister, Louise, who's a sophomore at University of Massachusetts - Amherst.


Dana:
- Wears glasses, and has been seen with two different pairs (one with black rims, one with brown-red rims)
- Smokes cigars
- Fears fish


Gordon:
- Worked for four and a half years on the Sammy Galino case (which fell through)

Comments

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Yup. Someone, somewhere I was reading the other day - when I was bored at work, as when am I not, and Googling for anything Josh Charles related that I could find, suggested that the Raging Bull thing was subtextual, but I didn't really follow their reasoning, never having seen the film. I thought it was just a Boy Thing.

There's a book in their office (or it may be in Isaac's office, or it may wander between them) that has Botticelli's Primavera on the cover, and I cannot for the life of me imagine what that is, or what it has to do with sport.

Also, they have that really ugly lamp (?) of a sort-of '50s glamour girl in stockings.

This is like Kim's Game, only with Sports Night trivia!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

A fellow slasher watched it and said it was very bloody, despite being in black and white, but that the main character's urge to fight seemed to stem for his subtextual lust for his brother. (Um, no, I haven't seen it either.)

That, and it was all about the main character's downward spiral and self-destructiveness.

*shrugs*

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Boy Thing. *Shrug* It's reasonably cool, in spite of being sport-related, so it goes with the general zeitgeist of the show ...

... 'zeitgeist', good lord. Time for bed. (It is 2.00 am here.)

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

But of course, being obsessive/compulsive, I couldn't go to bed till I found the article (http://www.epinions.com/content_88717889156)

Except doesn't the "I coulda been a contender" quote come from On The Waterfront ...?

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*gives you a Look*

You expect *me* to know? I mean, really. I've probably seen more war films than serious sport films (Mr Baseball doesn't count, I don't think), and that's still a damn small number.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

It was a rhetorical question. It comes from On The Waterfront. Which is more about unions and strike-breaking and people killing pigeons than sport, really.