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From YouTube: Here/now We're All Arlington: Jeff Porro
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A segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now", "We're All Arlington" features short biographies of Arlington residents, highlighting our county's amazing diversity. This episode's subject is burgeoning screenwriter Jeff Porro.
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And
now
it's
worth
30
years
later,
I
work
for
a
range
of
people,
I
work
for
Senator,
Howard,
med
school
on
when
I
worked
in
the
State
Department
for
a
year,
I'm
back
in
the
Jimmy
Carter
days
and
got
to
go
inside
the
white
house
and
got
to
go
to
some
some
briefings.
The
very
first
time
I
was
sitting
in
the
Senate
as
a
staffer
and
sat
down.
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I
looked
all
around
the
Senate
chambers
and
it
just
struck
me
of
all
the
great
men
and
women
who
has
been
there
throughout
our
history
and
it
steps
that
made
me
feel
like
I've.
Had
some
part
in
visiting
I
did
the
policy
settings
until
about
nineteen,
eighty
four
and
then
I
realized,
then
what
I
really
liked
was
the
writing.
Writing
speeches,
your
troop
c.
You
can
always
make
second
choices.
I
began
to
become
more
of
a
writer
and
editor.
A
good
speech
is
not
just
a
spoken
white
paper.
A
A
really
good
speech
captures
the
character
of
the
person
who's,
giving
it
they
have
to
be
dramatic.
The
best
ones
are
genetically
I.
Think,
like
most
writers
of
any
stripe,
I'd
had
a
notion
to
want
to
do
my
own
kind
of
creative
writing
and
I
had
a
friend
who
I'd
known
in
grad
store,
who
has
been
gradually
making
his
way
up
the
Hollywood
food
chain,
as
though
the
string
writer
he'd
always
said
to
me,
hey
Stu
got
him
a
good
ideas.
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Let
me
know,
and
about
12
years
ago
a
magazine
came
across
my
desk
and
in
it
was
a
three-page
orbital
about
an
african-american
college.
A
tiny
african-american
college,
34
wounded
college
that
has
turned
out
championship,
debate,
team
and
Wiley
was
one
of
the
first,
if
not
the
first,
that
segregated
agura
to
debate
white
colleges
and
they
be
disciplined
I
thought
to
how
this
has
got
a
lot
about.
David
and
Goliath
has
got
America's
great
issue
done
the
race
issue
and
then
I
read
further
and
I
found
out
to
James.
A
Former
junior
had
been
on
the
team
and
he'd
always
been
a
kind
of
a
hero
of
mine
and
I
realized.
He
was
on
the
team.
I
knew
I
wanted
to
do
something
with
his
short,
so
I
got
in
touch
with
my
friend
Bob
and,
unlike
some
of
my
previous
ideas
on
this
one,
he
said
yeah,
it
sounds
interested,
let's
do
more
research
and
find
out
more
about
it
and
we
pitched
it
to
Oprah
Winfrey's
company
and
they
bought
the
idea
and
the
higher
blocks
to
the
script.
A
And
I
like
to
say
the
rest
is
history,
but
it
actually
was
launching
of
about
it
of
a
decade-long
up
and
down
struggle.
The
Hollywood
there
are
thousands
of
people
who
can
say
no
to
a
project
and
only
a
very
few
loose
in
cydia,
and
it
was
only
in
about
two
years
ago
when
Denzel
Washington
learned
of
the
project
and
he
made
happening
I've,
had
a
very
limited
portions
of
glamour.
Forces
I
came
as
I
did
here.
Denzel
message:
they
left
a
mess
in
Bob's
answering
machine.
So
that's
about
to
push
the
touchdown
daylight.