In Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger, the Table of Contents provides the reader with a clear outline of the subsequent tale, while demonstrating the prominence of football in a small town searchi...
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Is the Astro-Dome where the Permian Panthers really played their semi-final game versus Dallas Carter? The answer is no. That is only one difference out of many. The book and movie had more differenc...
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In America we have laws: laws about speeding, laws about killing, laws about stealing. In Odessa, Texas, they have their own laws. Their laws lie on the football field, where high school football is ...
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Friday Night Lights is a perfect example of the way high school football is run in Texas. Texas high school football is considered, by almost everyone in Texas, as a way of life. Every town and city...
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Friday Night Lights
If football was the only important institution held sacred to a sate, or even a town, that state, or town would fall into utter disrepair. A lot of times, people can be very shor...
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Last fall, NBC made a big miscalculation with "Friday Night Lights," airing it on a night that wasn't Friday.This confused many viewers. After all, "Saturday Night Live" airs on Saturdays _ not on,...
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Freshmen series "Heroes" and "Ugly Betty" are on the Emmy-nominations short list, according to a Web site that tracks entertainment awards.Judges screening potential Emmy Award nominees for the Aca...
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New NBC executive Ben Silverman is quickly putting his stamp on the network's fall schedule, juggling the lineup announced to advertisers in May and making room for the summer series "The Singing B...
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NBC will start offering limited free downloads of shows such as "Heroes" and "The Office" as part of its bid to expand the digital distribution of its programs and compete with Apple Inc.'s iTunes ...
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NBC's "The Office," Showtime's "Dexter" and HBO's "The Wire" are among the contenders for top honors at the 60th Writers Guild Awards.Nominations were announced Wednesday for achievement in televis...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Early awards-season
favorites "Into the Wild," "Michael Clayton" and "No Country
For Old Men" scored another accolade Sunday by making the
year's top 10 list from the Ameri...
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This afternoon, NBC goes before advertisers and the press to try to sell its 2007-2008 season to advertisers and the press. So this morning the network sent out the details of the season for previe...
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Old friend Jerry Seinfeld walked onto a Radio City Music Hall stage during NBC's yearly sales presentation to advertisers last week not to tout a new show, but his appearance in some gussied-up pro...
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Today is Wednesday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2007. There are 243 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin, and the Allies anno...
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One of the late Ed Bradley's final "60 Minutes" stories was among 35 Peabody Award winners announced Wednesday.Bradley, the pioneering black CBS journalist who died of leukemia last November, won f...
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