Iron Chef and West Wing reruns.
Just finished West Wing season 5.. This show is so addictive and well written, I wish more shows on these days were as smart as this one.
West Wing was an amazing series and I miss it. Very well done even though it had a Sheen as the lead character as President with a biased very liberal political agenda in the story lines. I liked the show as
FICTIONAL entertainment.
TANGENT: 
My feelings about the Sheen's and other famous successful actors/entertainment figures using their fame to put their noses soooo much into real life politics to try to influence the public about serious matters is a separate topic, it bothers me since they mainly do it for self promotion and gain.
Yeah, so someone is a good actor in successful movies and/or TV shows to provide entertainment to the masses. That's cool, do the acting and enjoy the fame and pay from it as an entertainer dealing with fiction.
Don't let it make you think that because you are popular in entertainment land that you are qualified to know about and influence/tell people about how to vote and deal with real world non-fictional matters. Actors/entertainers live in a world of fiction with scripts handed to them!
IMHO: Fame and box office results do not make celebrities qualified to give qualified opinions to the public in order to try to exert influence about serious things going on in the real life world of politics, law and legislation (which is pretty serious, especially with the economy and this current health care thing Obama is trying to push through).
Giving informed advice to make good voting decisions about laws and government policy regarding real life things that effect the populace have nothing to do with the skill set to be a good actor. Yey, someone has become a famous actor in some blockbuster movie or TV series
PLAYING a character and made lots of $$$, Whoopie!
That type of job is acting with fictional drama. So what, somebody gets famous, makes a lot of cash and suddenly thinks they have good opinions and a foundation to advise others about serious non-fictional stuff? Sean Penn and Angelina Jolie are examples and there are plenty more.
Actors and Hollywood people, stick to entertaining us in fiction fantasy land, let the lawyers, educated people and informed voters deal with making decisions RE: government policy issues, the law and how the government should be run.
When there is a crisis, like the one in Haiti right now where there is a need to generate public awareness in order to get donations, people to provide help and relief to the victims of a disaster, have at it and use your celebrity status to influence people to help others
selflessly rather than as tokenism.
Kinda like this rare event went:
/end rant about greedy shameless self serving celebrities
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