I saw The Farnsworth Invention last night. For those of you who don't know, Philo T. Farnsworth is one of the inventors of television, according to history. The play is about the race to secure the patent for the device that eventually became television. David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and creator of NBC works with a Russian who came to the U.S. (Sarnoff left Russia as a child) in the race against Farnsworth. As portrayed in the show (IMHO) Sarnoff seems like a mean, cold, caculating son of a bitch but Hank Azaria was excellent in his portrayl. Jimmi Simpson as Farnsworth, the somewhat tortured genius is wonderful. The show is well written and well constructed by Aaron Sorkin. It is a bit wordy but works nonetheless. It's funny and suspensful, even though you know (at least I did) how the whole thing turns out. Lots of good, journeyman actors in the show including Michael Mulhern who was good, but wasted in Deuce, and Jim Ortlieb. If you like your dramas, this is a good one. I can see it as a movie or an HBO made for television film.