The Newsroom | Aaron Sorkin and His “Musical Dialogue”
Photograph by Annie Leibovitz
Sorkin on set! Brace for melodiously snappy dialogue.
Meanwhile: Our James Kaplan gives an exclusive sneak-peek at The Newsroom, the Social Network scribe’s new HBO show about a fictional cable-news program. The spread:

Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.
Aaron Sorkin profiles David Fincher for us, and the results are characteristically great. “David sees dead people—which is to say, he sees things I can’t see,” Sorkin writes. “The smallest gradations of color and shadow. The positioning of a prop relative to the composition of a frame. The wetness of a gutter partially illuminated by a traffic light.” For more.
Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.