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Well, we got a few more acceptances for the wedding, which was great. People we really want to be there to share the joy, quaff the wine and break the bread with us. Unfortunately, my mother won't be coming down from Sydney. She's having an op a few days before, and the nature and location of it precludes her from sitting on a train for a long period of time, just as she can't fly because of an ear operation she had recently. I'm a bit down about that, but it can't be helped.

On the plus side, I've watched the pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin's new TV series "Studio 60 Live From Sunset Strip" and it's the real deal. It starts with a terrific rant against the banality of modern network television and slides into some great ensemble acting, bravura direction and Sorkin's style of dialogue which is invariably as sharp as a microtome. The show has a great cast including Bradley Whitford, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Steven Weber, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Busfield. The look of the show is also unique - I have the feeling that the Studio 60 set is going to be as integral to this series as the White House was to "The West Wing". The seeds of a few interesting plotlines are planted into the fertile soil of the writing and if you're here in the antipodes and don't download it, you're going to miss out on the best that television has to offer for a couple of years until some lame-arsed Australian TV channel catches it.