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Speaking to All Things D on Wednesday, Aaron Sorkin had plenty to say about the Steve Jobs biopic he’s now definitely writing. Still early into the process, Sorkin is procrastinating and trying to determine what the project’s all about. However, he doesn’t need to clock hundreds of hours with Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography to know that the process will be like writing a Beatles movie, in that millions of people are already imminently familiar with Jobs’ life and creations. “Anytime you’re at the movies, and you see the words the following is based on a true story, you should think about it as a painting, not a photograph,” Sorkin says. So expect a fast-talking Steve Jobs painting.

Since it’s tough to avoid making a formulaic biopic, Sorkin says, “I’m probably not going to write one.” He’ll venture into story-dominated turf rather than a checkpoint-oriented tale, much like he did with The Social Network, a film entirely about Mark Zuckerberg without it being a by-the-book Mark Zuckerberg biopic. Sorkin also says the project resembles a potential “minefield of disappointment” and that whoever ends up playing Jobs is “going to have be a very good actor.” A few more bits:

Who he likes depicting: “By and large, I write about people who are considerably smarter than I am.”

And why they talk so speedily: As a child, with an supersmart circle of family and friends, Sorkin “really fell in love with the phonetic sound of intelligence.”

Switching from an antihero story with The Social Network to the almost-always lionized Jobs: “My taste lies in quixotic heroes. … I can’t judge this character [Jobs]. He has to be, for me, a hero. … To put is as simply as possible, you want to write the character like they are making their case to God, why they should be let into heaven.”

What he’d ask Jobs before he made said case to God, on the topic of technology resonating so seamlessly with even toddlers: “If I could ask Steve Jobs anything, it would be ‘What’s that magic trick?’”

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The feds and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Wednesday that Muslim and Sikh transit employees will no longer be required to wear turbans or headwear bearing the agency logo, settling a federal discrimination lawsuit.

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The Daily Beast maps where the past month’s twisted cases have gone down.

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Kayak Software Corp. slowed its march to the stock market in one of the clearest examples yet of the fallout from Facebook Inc.’s tumultuous initial public offering.

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BEIRUT (AP) — When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother’s blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead….

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How many hours per week does a person have to work in order to afford a two-bedroom apartment at minimum wage? Following a report (PDF) by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a rather striking infographic has been making the rounds (NYT) on the web. The bottom line: nowhere in the USA is it possible to afford a two-bedroom apartment on forty hours per week of minimum wage work.

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After a significant drop in viewership, the show’s owner is preparing to diversify even as it looks for ways to support “Idol.”

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A proposal that would take effect as soon as next March is the most ambitious effort yet by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration to combat rising obesity.

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Researchers have found evidence that the evolution of birds is the result of a drastic change in how dinosaurs developed. Scientists have long understood that modern birds descended from dinosaurs. Rather than take years to reach sexual maturity, as many dinosaurs did, birds sped up the clock — some species take as little as 12 weeks to mature — allowing them to retain the physical characteristics of baby dinosaurs.

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