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<p>Aaron Sorkin opened up on "Salon Talks" about how he re-created the role of Atticus Finch for Tony Award nominee Jeff Daniels in his version of "To Kill a Mockingbird," currently on Broadway through September. </p> <p>Sorkin admitted that his first draft of the show was "timid," and that he only was able to truly dive into the writing process when he stopped thinking about the word "adaptation" and Harper Lee's original. "I was gonna write a new play, that I wasn't gonna pretend I was writing it in 1960 and I wasn't gonna try to do a Harper Lee impersonation," Sorkin told SalonTV's Andrew O'Hehir. </p> <p>While Lee's version of Atticus was "carved out of marble" and flawless, Sorkin was determined to inject imperfection into the character for Daniels." </p> <p>"I realized that I didn't have to give him a flaw. He already had one-it's just that. When I learned the book in seventh, eighth, ninth grade or whenever it was, and I think that when most people learn the book, we're taught that that flaw is a virtue. Atticus believes that there is goodness in everyone, that you just have to look hard enough, that you'd just have to crawl around, as he says, 'You have to crawl around inside someone else's skin, for a while and you can find the goodness.' He excuses racism all over the place." </p> <p>Watch Sorkin's <a href=' https://www.salon.com/tv/e/789676/c/3948' rel='nofollow'>full "Salon Talks" episode</a> to hear more about why Sorkin thinks Atticus would find reasons to be compassionate about Trump voters and the right wing website where he found inspiration for some of the secondary characters. </p> <p>To learn more about the starring roles of Atticus and Scout, watch <a href=' https://www.salon.com/tv/e/753220/c/3949' rel='nofollow'>the "Salon Talks" episode with Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger</a>. </p>

ESPN reporter Dan Murphy describes how doctor Larry Nassar became a safe haven for young women in the gymnastics world. Murphy explains how the sport's win-at-all-costs culture contributed to Nassar's serial criminal and sexually abusive behavior. In his book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/dp/0316532150/?tag=saloncom08-20">"Start by Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster,"</a>Murphy details the full scope of the case against Nassar and the 250 women who stepped forward to tell their stories. <a href="https://www.salon.com/tv/video/0qmnou">To learn more about how athletes are continuing to pursue justice beyond Nassar's life sentence, watch the full episode on "Salon Talks."</a>

Reporter and author Michael Rothfeld explains the beginning of Trump's friendship with mob lawyer Roy Cohn and how Trump has used Cohn's philosophy to take down his opponents. Rothfeld takes readers to the underbelly of Trump's world of greed and lust in the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/dp/0593132394/?tag=saloncom08-20br">"The Fixers: The Bottom-feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President."</a> <a href="https://www.salon.com/tv/video/eganlj">To learn about Trump's other fixers, including Michael Cohen, watch the full episode on "Salon Talks."</a>