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There’s a classic joke about an the actress who was so dumb she tried to sleep with the writer in order to get ahead in Hollywood. The writer is not the star. And yet when Aaron Sorkin stepped on stage at the D10 conference Wednesday, all tanned skin and tousled hair, the audience of grizzled tech execs got all starry-eyed.

Sorkin’s not just any writer, of course. His track record—The West Wing, Sports Night, A Few Good Men, and many more—has made him a superstar screenwriter. He touched on the tech industry with The Social Network and will do so again as he writes the screenplay adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. And he’s got a show to plug—The Newsroom, premiering on HBO later in June.

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