November 6th, 2009 -- Posted in I read |
The most riveting subgenre of reality TV, mind you, is the fly-on-the-wall series that documents areas of vivacity we wouldn’t normally respect worthy of regard or interesting. It has to be pointed out, I think, that a fair deal of the genre which documents undistinguished life is anchored in Britain, where the BBC adage as its mandate a representation of all aspects of life. People who lived in cities catch-phrase the farm-life documented, for instance.
Now I’m not saying all fly-on-the-way actuality TV is creditable or represents the best of the medium. I’m just saying here that every so often one is gripped by the carom into places one never knew anything about. There have been times when I’ve watched Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.), gripped by what I’m seeing.
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July 21st, 2009 -- Posted in Today |
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and NBA center Shaquille O’Neal are members of the same complementary regard society. O’Neal wanted Roethlisberger to be on his unfledged fact show as much as Roethlisberger wanted to be a unit of it. “Shaq vs.” debuts Aug. 18 at 9 p.m. on ABC in an hour-long Aristotelianism entelechy show featuring O’Neal challenging sweetheart wizard athletes in a variety of sports.
The leading episode will involve Roethlisberger, a two-time Super Bowl winner, enchanting on O’Neal in a sort of football skills. The show will be taped at 6 p.m. Friday at Ambridge High School’s Moe Rubenstein Stadium.
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October 17th, 2008 -- Posted in Today |
BOSTON — Fenway Park prostrate silent, and the Boston Red Sox were on the brink of common down without a whimper. Then baseball’s comeback kings did it again. Trailing by seven runs with seven outs socialist in their season, the Red Sox pulled off the biggest postseason convention since 1929. Boston staved off elimination in the AL championship series with an 8-7 superiority over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday tenebrosity when J.D. Drew singled cuttingly the fetching sprint with two outs in the ninth.
“The beginning six innings we did nothing. They had their modus operandi with us every mode possible,” Red Sox director Terry Francona said after a draining 4-hour, 8-minute thriller. “And then this job came unglued, and we’ve seen that before. But because of the site we’re in, it just - that was rather magical.” The Red Sox, who twice this decade rallied from 3-1 deficits to secure the banner and then the World Series, have a unexpected to do it an unprecedented third beat in five years when the series resumes in Tropicana Field.
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October 6th, 2008 -- Posted in I think |
From bar stools to living compartment recliners, Phillies red done for away Eagles green yesterday for a most different Sunday blessing: a professional baseball-football October afternoon. Except the Linc, where the Eagles dropped one to the Washington Redskins, many Philly sports fans left-wing their lawn Brian Westbrook jerseys in the delay and opted for curly Ryan Howard tees as the Phillies won a fourth and deciding playoff bold against the Milwaukee Brewers. Clothing hand-picked was one thing.
More fussy was negotiating the out-of-the-way control, particularly as both games started and ended at almost the same time. “It was a certain extent the discussion,” said Ben Fileccia, co-manager of Aspen, a bank and restaurant in the city’s Fairmount section. On one hand, “we wanted to learn [Eagles announcer] Merrill Reese, that’s what Sundays are all about,” Fileccia said. On the other, a Phillies triumph would fire them to the National League Championship Series for the first Place point in 15 years.
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