Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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The West Coast Delay

Jordan's at dinner with the always fabulous Christine Lahti. Well, always except when she's screeching at her sons Jack & Bobby. Sorry, Berlanti. BFF! Christine Lahti, whose name here is Martha O'Dell, marvels that Jordan's network has its restaurant open for dinner. Jordan says she figures that if she's going to make everyone work late, she might as well feed them, and then reveals that her ex-husband is self-publishing his book about her on the internet. I hope he already has a blog with a huge following and at least sixteen ads on all three of his sidebars, or he's going to sell about four copies, and three of those will go to his mother. I'll buy the other for setting individual pages on fire to light my Parliaments. Martha wonders how the "NBS Burger" is prepared, while Jordan's assistant rushes over some papers for her to sign. Jordan tells Martha that they prepare the burger here, in the kitchen, and introduces her assistant, a cutie named Kevin Yu. Kevin tells Martha that he reads her every week, so we learn that she's a writer of some kind. Fine, she's a reporter. I, like Jessica, am also too old to pretend I don't know what's going on. Jordan -- whose hair looks extremely cute up in a little bun with a headband -- doesn't understand why she married this jerk in the first place, and why she didn't have a friend to tackle her to the ground and prevent it. Martha says that if they're going to talk about it, it's going on the record. Jordan says that this isn't about her. Martha, chewing casually on a swizzle stick, inquires, "Then I have to ask you...what's the NBS salad?" Heh. Jordan says that most of the menu items are pretty intuitive. Martha informs Jordan that it is, in fact, about her: Jordan flipped off half the country and the TV business on her first day at work: "You can be a woman, look like you do, have the power you do, but...not all at the same time." I don't even know what that means. She can be an ugly woman with power, or a pretty woman with no power, or a pretty and powerful...man? Why do only the men get to be both pretty and powerful? Jordan pouts, "Well, you do it twice a week in print, so nyah!" Martha says no, she just doesn't care about it: "Google me, and you'll find a lot worse than DUI in Sag Harbor." Martha assures Jordan that it's not as bad as she thinks, and that everyone else just thinks it's funny anyway. Jordan understands that, but says that the ones who are going to have to be convinced that "this" is a good idea are Matt and Danny, so Martha and Jordan are going to go see them. Martha asks what the best way to make a good impression is. Jordan points to Martha's NBS Dinners. Martha rolls her eyes, undoes the top button of her blouse, and smirks, "Easy as pie." Mmm, pie.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

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