"I actually did start performing at a young age... I did seem to know that I wanted to act very early in my life.
  - Josh Charles, during an inteview with ESPN's Rob Neyer in 2003

As a nine-year-old, Josh Charles took to the stage to hone his comedic skills doing stand-up. One of his idols was Richard Pryor, and Josh dreamed of following in his footsteps. Facing that kind of pressure isn't something many can endure, but Josh was willing to take the challenge.

Josh studied at the School of the Performing Arts, and he spent several summers at the esteemed Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Camp in the New York Catskills. The camp has turned out famous alumni: Natalie Portman, Robert Downey, Jr., Mandy Moore, among others. While at Stagedoor Manor, Charles received a Festival Week Award for Best Actor for his role in the production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's production of Confrontation, co-starring Renee Weldon.

Josh then made the leap from stage to film, making his debut in John Waters' Hairspray.

The following year, he starred alongside Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke in the Oscar-winning Dead Poets Society. Charles' popularity grew from his performance as Knox Overstreet, the shy, love-struck prep-school boy.

On his next film, Josh received rave reviews for his performance as the comic, troubled, Mort Golden in Mike Binder's "Crossing the Bridge." "Threesome", Josh's next film, brought him more into stardome, as he starred opposite Stephen Baldwin and Lara Flynn Boyle. Directed by Andy Fleming, "Threesome" takes a comedic but biting look at college life in the '90s.

In Bryan Gordon's "Pie in the Sky," a favorite at the Sundance and Telluride Film Festivals, Charles co-starred with Anne Heche. He played air-traffic reporter Charlie Dunlop in the quirky, offbeat romantic comedy.

The Emmy Award-winning television movie, "Murder in Mississippi," was the first television appearance for Josh. Selecting exemplary television roles, Charles starred in the telefilm "Cooperstown" with Alan Arkin for TNT, and he went on to star opposite Ashley Judd in the critically acclaimed HBO biopic "Norma Jean and Marilyn."

Sports Night marked Josh's first starring role on a television series. Dan Rydell, one of the two anchormen hosting a cable sports news program, was a new role for him. Growing up, he never considered a career in broadcasting, and now he was headlining a series playing an anchor.

"Dan's passionate, rebellious, loyal, witty, and mischievous. I think there's some mystery to him as well, which is good. I'm looking forward to building the character," Charles said. With his portrayal of Dan, he built his character and earned a Screen Actors Guild nomination.

After Sports Night, Josh made various appearances in movies (S.W.A.T., Four Brothers) and television (Six Degrees). His most recent television-starring role was in HBO's In Treatment.

A Baltimore native, his father was an advertising executive and his mother worked for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. His love for his hometown extends to their sports teams. Josh is a big fan of baseball's Baltimore Orioles and football's Baltimore Ravens. In fact, he has been spotted at many of their games. Josh also championed a fantasy football draft on the NFL Network in 2004-05.

Photography and music are more of Josh's interests. He loves blues and jazz... and he enjoys the music of Tom Waits.

In 2004, Josh returned to his roots on stage and appeared in a revival of Neil LaBute's The Distance From Here, which received a Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble Cast. In 2006, he appeared in the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and followed this with a run at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, portraying the cloned brothers in Caryl Churchill's A Number. In 2007, he appeared in Adam Bock's The Receptionist at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

Josh has come full-circle with his career, but his success isn't over. He continues to challenge himself, like he did as a nine-year old appearing on stage.

Full name: Daniel Wesley Rydell
Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut, 1969
Favorite Album: Bruce Springsteen, "Darkness on the Edge of Town"

Growing up in Connecticut, Dan's family consisted of his father (Jacob), mother, older brother (David), younger brother (Sam), and sister. As a child, he loved sitting in the living room with his father and watching boxing matches. Dan also loved sports, especially baseball. For four or five years, he listened to a recording of Bobby Thomson's dramatic "shot heard around the world," and the game which won the pennant for the Giants.

Even though Dan's younger brother, Sam, was considered to be a genius, he looked up to and was influenced by Dan. That influence took a tragic turn on Sam's 16th birthday. Driving while high on drugs and drunk, Sam crashed his car and was killed. On that day, Dan gave up smoking dope.

Dan attended eight years of Hebrew school and, eventually, he became a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Before coming to "Sports Night," Dan was teamed with Casey, and they hosted their own show on the Lone Star Sports Network. The two have also worked in the third- and fifth-largest markets before coming to work at CSC. Dan's success has resulted in nominations for his body of work.

Dan's likes:

• Mallomars
• Grape jelly
• Hillary Clinton
• Baseball
• Sailing, yacht racing, and other water sports
• the music of Mr. Tom Waits

Dan's dislikes:

• Soccer (he finds it a mind-numbing bore)
• Lisa, Casey's ex-wife
• Publicists

...the writers, Aaron Sorkin, Alan Ball, Andre Dubus, Larry Gross, who wrote script based on the short stories, and now I've gotten to spend hours with Arthur Miller. Aaron, I knew when I bartended with him and Alan Ball, I knew from "Cybill" so I knew these guys in different contexts. These guys are really great writers. Best writers working on TV. And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.   - Peter Krause in a 2004 interview with Thomas Chau

Peter Krause was born in Alexandria, Minnesota, the son of two teachers. Growing up in Roseville, he was a skilled track and field athlete, but he suffered an unfortunate pole vaulting injury in high school that ended his athletic career. He attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota and became interested in theatre. Graduating from Gustavus Adolphus in 1987, he decided to pursue acting as a career and enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at New York University. While working as a bartender in New York City, he met writer Aaron Sorkin.

Peter's first television appearances was in the comedy skit series Carol & Company and in "The Limo" episode of Seinfeld. He later appeared as Kevin Blanders in Cybill.

In 1998, Peter reconnected with Aaron Sorkin to portray Casey McCall on Sports Night.

With the disappointing cancellation of Sports Night, a new opportunity immediately appeared. Alan Ball, whom Peter worked with on Cybill, cast him as Nate Fisher in HBO's Six Feet Under. The show received several award nominations, including three Emmy nominations, and Golden Globe wins, including Peter's win as Best Actor in a Television Series.

Between filming seasons on Six Feet Under, Peter appeared in Arthur Miller's After the Fall. His performances on stage received much acclaim. Also during the Six Feet Under run, Peter had his first son born, Roman.

Peter continued his presence on television, playing the lead role of Detective Joe Miller in the Sci Fi Channel mini-series, "The Lost Room."

In 2007, Peter returned to ABC to star alongside Donald Sutherland in the television drama series, Dirty Sexy Money. Ironically, this is the third television series in a row for Peter in which his character has had a wife or ex-wife named Lisa.

Full name: Casey Randolph McCall
Birthplace Indianapolis, Indiana on September 5, 1965
Biggest Secret: Prefers small dogs to big dogs

Casey grew up in Indiana, where he was an excellent student and gymnast. Casey is fluent in four languages: Spanish, French, German, and... English.

In college is where he first met Dana Whitaker. Dana introduced Casey to her best friend, Lisa, and the two began dating. Shortly after graduating, Casey and Lisa married. The two have a son, Charlie, and he takes after his father.

Casey's award-winning career has taken him around the country. He has worked in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Dallas. While in Dallas, many things happened that effected the path of Casey's life.

Casey was reunited with Dana and started working with Dan Rydell. Casey and Dan hosted a nightly program on the Lone Star Sports Network. Right at the beginning of Casey and Dan's run, Casey was offered a position to host a late-night talk show on one of the "Big Three" networks. Casey turned down the job to stay in Dallas. Lisa wasn't happy with Casey's decision to work on a little show, and it was the beginning of the end of their marriage.

Casey, Dan, and Dana joined the Continental Sports Channel from its inception, and they worked on its flagship program, "Sports Night."

Even though Casey finally took a job in New York, it didn't help repair his marriage. While there, Casey and Lisa finally divorced.

Casey's likes:

• Draft Day in professional football
• Music from the 1970's
• lots of things French: toast, mustard, and their kissing
• Dana

Casey's dislikes:

• Gordon, Dana's boyfriend (he proves to be a formidable foe in conversation)
• people with post-graduate degrees (he envies them)

Felicity Huffman (born December 9) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. She is known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the ABC hit show Desperate Housewives, which earned her an Emmy Award. A year later, her role as a transwoman in the independent film Transamerica earned her a Golden Globe Award, and was praised by many critics. Huffman won eight significant awards, and was nominated ten times.

Felicity Kendall Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, the daughter of Grace Valle (nŽe Ewing), an actress, and Moore Peters Huffman, a banker. Her parents divorced a year after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her mother. She has six sisters and a brother, Moore. She attended The Putney School, a boarding high school in Putney, Vermont and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. After high school she went on to New York University where she graduated in 1988 from the Tisch School of the Arts, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama.

On television, she starred as Dana Whitaker in the dramedy Sports Night, and has had guest starring roles on Frasier, The X-Files, The West Wing, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In 2001, she appeared in the made for TV movie Snap Decision with Mare Winningham. Huffman has appeared in films such as Raising Helen and Christmas with the Kranks. In 2003, she starred in Showtime's dramedy Out of Order.

Huffman won an Emmy for her work on Desperate Housewives (Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series), as well as two 2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards (Best Actress - Comedy Series and part of Best Ensemble - Comedy Series). Huffman's performance in the film Transamerica was praised by many critics and garnered her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress as well as nominations for the Best Actress (Screen Actors Guild) and Best Actress (Academy Awards). Huffman is now a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Huffman is also the co-author of the self-help book, "A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend". She is the only actress to have appeared in all three television shows created by Aaron Sorkin (Sports Night, The West Wing, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip).

She is set to star in the title role of the upcoming motion picture, The Politician's Wife, due for release in 2010.

On June 23, 2008, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Huffman and her husband William H. Macy will each receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the upcoming year.

Huffman is married to actor William H. Macy, with whom she has two daughters Sofia Grace (born 2000) and Georgia Grace (born 2002). They married on September 6, 1997. She has appeared on television, in movies, and on stage many times with her husband, such as on the TV show Sports Night and in the movie Magnolia. The couple have become the subject of a running gag on the satirical news show The Colbert Report, in which the couple (who live a quiet life outside the media spotlight) are regularly referenced as representing the greatest of today's celebrity couples in a culture obsessed with celebs. Colbert refers to the couple as "Filliam H. Muffman", a play on the current trend by media types to combine the names of major celebrity couples, in the mold of "Bennifer", "Brangelina", and "TomKat."

In 2005, Huffman revealed that she had suffered from both anorexia and bulimia in her late teens and twenties. At the height of her bulimia she would purge up to six times a day. Her weight dropped to 98 lbs, her periods stopped, and she was too weak to go jogging. However, with therapy and upon meeting Macy she managed to overcome those conditions. She is still known for her self-deprecating humor and her belief that she is "not pretty."

She is a huge fan of Tina Turner and her dream was to be a back-up singer, so when Huffman was on "The Oprah Winfrey Show", Winfrey surprised her with a visit from Tina Turner where the two got to sing together.

Full name: Dana Whitaker
Birthplace: Boston, 1966
Hometown: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Favorite Movie: "The Philadelphia Story"

Dana grew up in Iowa, with her family of nine. She lived with her mother, father, and six brothers. One of her brothers, Kyle, turned out to be a successful athlete and played defense for the Denver Broncos.

With Dana's brothers involved in sports, her mother tried everything in her power to keep her away from it. Dana attended a series of exclusive all-girl schools, but the love of sports from her father and brothers propelled Dana to seek a career in it.

Dana attended college, where she met Casey McCall. The two were friends, and Dana set Casey up with her best friend, Lisa. The match-making eventually led Casey and Lisa to marry. After graduating with her bachelor's degree, Dana earned a Master's in Broadcast Journalism.

Her career took her to Los Angeles, where she was reunited with Casey and Lisa. Later, Dana was promoted when she moved to Dallas to work for Lone Star Sports. While in Dallas, she brought Casey and paired him with Dan Rydell to host their own nightly program on the network.

Dana was brought to the Continental Sports Channel by Isaac Jaffee, and she was selected to be the executive producer of the network's flagship program, "Sports Night."

While her calmness, knowledge, and control has advanced her professional career, her personal life has been anything but.

Dana's likes:

• Lamps
• Martini with 3 olives
• Shrimp cocktail (she finds it a comfort food)
• Draft Day in professional football
• Garbage can basketball- she's really good at it
• Zambonis
• Casey

Dana's dislikes:

• Fish (she fears them underwater)
• the "netwits"
• Sally Sasser, a fellow executive producer who wants what Dana wants in more ways than one

Full name: Jeremy Lemuel Goodwin
Birthplace: Boston, 1972
Secret fear: Revolving doors

The nerdy Jeremy grew up idolizing his father. He also has a brother, Michael, and a younger sister, Louise, who happens to be deaf. Louise doesn't let her handicap hold her back as she currently attends Amherst.

Jeremy's love of sports and lack of athletic ability pursuaded him to be the equipment manager for every team in his high school. He later graduated from UCLA with a degree in applied mathematics, and he used it when working jobs in the media

Jeremy has worked for the Sacramento Bee, the Free Press, and USA Today. Jeremy applied for and got his dream job: working for the Continental Sports Channel. He has been obsessed with their show, "Sports Night," watching it from when it first went on the air.

Jeremy has been awkward in personal relationships, completely missing signals from women. They literally have to throw themselves and hit him with a sign for him to finally realize they like him.

Jeremy has moral ideals in his professional job, but he feels he has to set them aside because he needs to pay off the $80,000+ in school loans. He feels fitting in and going along with his supervisor's ideals will help him keep his job.

Full name: Natalie Shaw Hurley
Birthplace: Granville, Ohio, 1973
Secret heartthrob: John Cusack

Growing up in Ohio, Natalie attended Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow Elementary School. Her mother and father still live in Ohio, and she has at least one brother. Natalie attended Northwestern and graduated with a degree in journalism.

Natalie started as an intern with the Continental Sports Channel, eventually earning her way up to senior associate producer of the network's flagship program, "Sports Night."

Natalie loves tennis champion, Pete Sampras. She dreams about him bringing her flowers and making her dinner.

Natalie enjoys going out, doing different things, and meeting different people.

Natalie tries to stay strong and tough in her professional career. While at CSC, she has become great friends with Dana Whitaker and she has formed a close relationship with Dan Rydell. She developed an immediate crush on the nerdy Jeremy Goodwin from the moment she saw him.

"Do not use any facet of yourself that you perceive as a handicap as an excuse... be prepared to go over, through and around."
  - Robert Guillaume, during his 1992 commencement speech at Tennessee State University

The distinguished career of Robert Guillaume is one in which he followed his own advice. Growing up impoverished in St. Louis, he was raised by his maternal grandmother, whom he credits for his success. "Her drive became my drive," he says about his grandmother, who worked as a domestic and took in laundry to support the family.

After a stint in the United States Army, Guillaume attended St. Louis University as a business administration major. He later held down short-term jobs ranging from cook to streetcar conductor while training his voice in hopes of one day singing tenor at the Metropolitan Opera.

Robert's vocal talent was recognized while he attended Washington University in St. Louis by Leslie Chabay, artist in residence, who arranged a scholarship for him at the Aspen Music Festival. That appearance started an immediate upswing in his career, which resulted in his apprenticeship at Cleveland's Karamu Theatre. It was there he made his semi-professional debut in both operas and musical comedy.

Not long after moving to New York City, he became one of the stage's best-reviewed young actors. He had much success in productions of "Kwamina," "Bambouche," "Tambourines to Glory," "Othello," "Porgy and Bess," and the long-running "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris." He went on to even greater acclaim in "Purlie," "Golden Boy" with Sammy Davis, Jr., and "Guy and Dolls," which earned him a Tony nomination for his performance as Nathan Detroit.

After guest-starring in several of the black-oriented television sitcoms in the 1970's, Robert was cast in 1977 as the outspoken family butler, Benson DuBois, in the daytime-drama parody "Soap." Guillaume admits that many of Benson's more contentious traits sprang from Guillaume's own prickly personality. That role won Guillaume a 1978 Emmy Award as "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series."

In 1979, Robert carried over his "Soap" role into his own starring series, "Benson." Behind the scenes, Guillaume battled producers over his portrayal of Benson. Guillaume says it was his idea to confer upward mobility on his sitcom character, going from self-possessed butler to state budget director to lieutenant governor. It was a lesson in the possibilities of applied intelligence, character, and hard work which was not lost on many Americans born into lower income families. The result netted Robert another Emmy Award as "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series." Guillaume adds, "Benson was a common man, but he didn't have to be subservient. Of course he was ambitious. Aren't all Americans? That's what I wanted him to be."

He also starred in several theatrical films, including "Lean on Me," "Death Warrant," "Seems Like Old Times," and "The Lion King," as the voice of Rafiki. Guillaume won a Grammy Award for his reading as Rafiki on the audio tape version of "The Lion King." With his powerful voice, Guillaume received rave reviews during his eight months as star of the Los Angeles production of "The Phantom of the Opera."

In 1992, Robert and his wife, Donna, began The Confetti Company. The company publishes read-along books and audio cassettes of traditional fairy tales written with a multi-ethnic approach. The books are a critical and commercial success. They are also a favorite of their lovely daughter, Rachel.

Among his accomplishments, Robert and Donna also produced "You Must Remember This" for PBS and "Happily Ever After" for HBO, a group of ethnically diverse fairy tales which he narrated.

Robert also headlined and executive produced the 1989 television series, "The Robert Guillaume Show," where he played a divorced marriage counselor, Edward Sawyer. Other television work also included "John Grin's Christmas," which he wrote, directed and starred in, "North and South," "L.A. Law," "Saved by an Angel," "Pacific Station," and, of course, "Sports Night."

As Isaac Jaffee, the brainy, compassionate executive producer of a fictional all-sports cable channel on ABCÕs Sports Night, Guillaume created another memorable character. "I liked playing the wise old man," he says. "I related to Jaffee, whoÕd earned his stripes as a workaday journalist." He suffered a mild stroke in January of 2000, only to return months later in the season-finale, "What Kind of Day Has it Been." Instead of pushing Guillaume aside, Aaron Sorkin wrote Guillaume's stroke into the storyline.

In addition to his work as a performer, Robert Guillaume has generously given both time and resources to numerous charitable and social organizations, among them, TransAfrica, AmFAR, Sickle Cell Disease Association of America and Artists for a New South Africa. He also serves as Honorary Campaign Chairperson for the Association of Black Cardiologists.

In 2002, Robert released his autobiography, "Guillaume: A Life." In December of 2002, Guillaume became the main focus for an exhibit at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum & Center for African-American History and Culture. "Roles, Reaction, and Reality: The Collection of Robert Guillaume" highlights his career with various presentations including articles, press releases, and taped footage. He also hopes his grandmother's message comes through at the Anacostia. Kids who see the show will find an emphasis on the importance of "focusing on a goal," he says.

Guillaume stresses that it was his academic studies which prepared him to take advantage of artistic opportunities. "I'd say it was a firmly grounded early education which made me unafraid of the English language."

"Today, a lot of young people cannot speak the language. Moreover, they think there is nobility in not being able to do so. These youngsters must have totally missed the point."

"As a television performer... I sought to avoid the stereotypical sociological traps. I always wanted kids of any background to understand the characters I've portrayed were real, that the solutions they found were true and possible. It has always been important to me to stress that there was no diminution of power or universality just because my characters are African-Americans."

Not only has Guillaume done that, but he has shined amongst us all.

Full name: Isaac Bernard Jaffee
Birthplace: Greensboro, South Carolina, 1938
Hometown: St. Louis
Favorite drink: Talisker 25-year-old single-malt scotch.

Isaac has had a love of sports since he was a child. He was even present at the game when Bobby Thomson hit the "shot heard around the world" to win the National League baseball pennant for the Giants.

Isaac started out as a stringer for the Atlanta Journal. He later covered NASA for 8 years, and his coverage of the Gemini missions won him a Pulitzer Prize.

The life-long Democrat later went to work in network television, and he was agressive, competitive, and often picked fights with the network. That determination earned him further promotions and success, and Isaac retired as the London Bureau Chief for CNN.

Isaac's love of sports brought him out of retirement when Luther Sachs, CEO of Continental Corp, started a cable sports division (Continental Sports Channel).

Isaac has a wife, Esther, and two daughters. At the beginning of the series, Isaac's daughter, Kathy, was pregnant, and gave birth to Matthew, Isaac's first grandchild.

At the end of the work evening, Isaac enjoys good news and Chivas on the rocks.

From "The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee":

Dan: We really have nine hockey segments tonight?
Casey: Three shootouts, two penalty shots, Stefan LeCourier--
Dan: Jerome'll be happy.
Casey: Who's Jerome?
Dan: Jerome.
Casey: Right.
Dan: He'll be happy.
Casey: Yeah.
Dan: Sure.
Casey: Who is he?
Dan: Jerome?
Casey: Right.
Dan: I'm talking about Jerome.
Casey: You can say his name as many times as you like, I'm still not gonna know who he is.
Dan: Camera two.
Casey: What about it?
Dan: He's the camera operator.
Casey: Who?
Dan: Are you prepared to do a broadcast right now?
Casey: Yeah.
Dan: The camera guy!
Casey: What about him?
Dan: Is Jerome. Jerome is the operator on camera two.
Casey: And he likes hockey.
Dan: Now you're with it.

During the episode, "The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee," Casey learned to appreciate the many people who produced the show. At the end of one of their broadcasts, Dan and Casey thanked and named many behind-the-scenes people. From wardrobe to editing and even to the camera operators, the names were not made up- they were the names of people who worked on "Sports Night."

The "Jerome" mentioned at the beginning of the episode, was a reference to Jerome Fauci, the steadicam operator who had worked with Thomas Schlamme for several years before coming to "Sports Night." When "Sports Night" was in its infancy, Schlamme called him about a new show with hundreds of feet of corridors and moving sets for uninterupted steadicam shots, and Jerome knew had to be a part of the series.

Jerome worked with Schlamme in designing long, complex steadicam shots, which received much attention from producers and executives at Disney.

Today, Fouci's television credits also include: "Friends," "Mad About You," "Spin City," "Chicago Hope," "Alias," and "The West Wing." He also has over thirty feature credits as a Steadicam Operator / Cinematographer including such films as "People vs. Larry Flynt," "The Trigger Effect," "Escape from L.A.," "The One," "The Time Machine," "One Eight Seven," and "Jackass - The Movie."

Along with working occassionally with Schlamme and Aaron Sorkin on "The West Wing," Jerome is currently in development to direct his first feature film, "BOY." A film he wrote was honored as a finalist at the 2001 Disney Screenwriting Fellowships, the 2001 MTV New York Latin Film Festival Screenwriting Awards, and the 2001 Academy of Arts and Science's Nichol's Screenwriting Awards. Jerome, his wife Amanda, and 4-month old baby boy, Liam, currently live in Los Angeles and New York City.

As for the story behind "The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee," here is what Fauci had to say:

"Aaron Sorkin, the very talented, but slightly out-of-touch creator of "Sports Night," was hearing a lot about this guy 'Jerome,' the steadicam operator, who was designing long, complex Steadicam camera shots with Tommy Schlamme that were getting a lot of attention from the other producers and executives at Disney. Now working 14 hours a day in his dark office, kicking out episode after episode, Aaron didn't even know the names of many of the "Sports Night" crew, much less a Steadicam guy named Jerome. So, I think in a very creative way Aaron used Peter Krause's character and Josh Charles's character as his and Tommy's alter ego. If you notice in the episode, the characters are fighting because one was too busy and self-absorbed even to know the names of the crew who worked hard everyday to support him and get the show on time. Ultimately, the character realizes that the show was not just about him- and he realized how he much his crew meant to him. I think it was Aaron's way of showing his appreciation. The strange thing for me was that Monday morning while shooting on the episode began, I hadn't read the script; and had no idea why Tommy, who obviously did read the script, was snickering all morning whenever he told me about the first shot up that day. So there I was strapped into a seventy pound camera with a crew of four running backwards on the set while Peter Krause and Josh Charles were doing their dialogue. And all along my assistant, Chris Bangma, was nudging me as their dialogue started talking about this guy 'Jerome.' Being a little out of touch myself- I didn't even notice, until Tommy and half of the crew started cracking up - it was pretty funny as I remember. Getting your fifteen minutes and not even noticing it."

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