NEW YORK (AP) - One of the ways Julia Louis-Dreyfus prepared for her role as Vice President Selina Meyer in the new HBO comedy "Veep" was to study how to answer questions in a public setting by not really answering them. She watched a lot of C-SPAN.

"Some politicians are better at it than others," she said. "It's a performance. Particularly these days. People don't really answer questions. In this culture of sound bites and 24-hour news ... people are careful about how they speak."