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NFL dominates TV ratings
Want to know why NBC, CBS, Fox and ESPN spend billions on the National Football League? So far this fall, 24 of the 25 most-watched television shows were football games. What non-football programs managed to break through the NFL logjam? NBC's...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Thanksgiving, Chicago Bears, Television Industry, National Football League
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Officials probe how secret confetti rained on Macy's parade
When Thanksgiving Day parade-goers in Manhattan looked into the confetti-filled sky last week, they may have seen more than they bargained for. Nassau County police announced that they are investigating how some of their confidential records including...
Tags: Social Security, Politics, Interior Policy, Thanksgiving, Mitt Romney
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KAWS is latest artist to join Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
This year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured the usual gallery of cartoon characters inflated to monstrous sizes bobbing alongside garish floats. But the parade also featured a bit of cultural subversion -- albeit of the family-friendly variety --...
Tags: Entertainment, Cartoons, Fine Artists, Thanksgiving, Artists
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: After Sandy, balm for the N.Y. soul
When Sandy slammed the East Coast, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons, floats and costumes were spared from the devastation. And Thursday morning, New Yorkers' mood elevated along with the traditional helium-filled balloons as the parade kicked...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Sesame Street (tv program), Michael Bloomberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Festive Events
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In the third installment of this lavish series, a teen girl is menaced by a powerful sorceress in a mystical fantasy world.
The Annotated Peter Pan
J.M....Tags: Entertainment, Yale University, Jules Feiffer, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Bob Marley
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Macy's parade: Good ol' Snoopy, Tim Burton's B. wow the crowd
Nation NowSnoopy, that stalwart of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, floated again at the 85th annual event, but he was joined by a stitched-up creation from Tim Burton and a monkey with a jet pack named Julius, by Paul Frank.... -
Alaina Reed Hall dies at 63; actress was Olivia Robinson on 'Sesame Street'
Alaina Reed Hall, a singer and actress who played Olivia Robinson on "Sesame Street" for a dozen years beginning in the mid-1970s and later played Rose Holloway on the situation comedy "227," has died. She was 63.
Reed Hall, who was diagnosed with breast...Tags: Movies, Obituaries, Celebrities, Peter Hall, Luther Vandross
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Disabled performers steal the show on South Florida stages
Though they vary in composition and mission, South Florida's diverse lineup of disabled performers have a special commonality: They shine a spotlight on the growing notion that talent is not diminished by disability. "I'm a dancer, you wouldn't expect...
Tags: Nova Southeastern University, Entertainment, North Lauderdale, Cerebral Palsy, Culture
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2013 Daytime Emmy Awards nominations: 'Young and the Restless' leads with 23
Zap2itThe nominees have been announced for the 40th annual Daytime Emmy Awards. "The Young and the Restless" leads all nominees with 23, followed by "General Hospital" at 19 and "Sesame Street" and "Days of Our Lives" at 17 apiece. CBS leads all networks,...Tags: Daytime Emmy Awards, Hospitals and Clinics, Celebrities, General Hospital (tv program), Paul Williams
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BRIEF: Western Carolina band to take part in 2014 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.The Western Carolina University band, Pride of the Mountains, has been selected to take part in the 2014 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Macy's parade officials were on campus and surprised the 400 members of the band Thursday with...Tags: Entertainment Events, Heisman Trophy, Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2012: 'The Insider's' Brooke Anderson gets to 'live out that dream'
From Inside the Box"We'd cook and laugh while we watched it, and for me, it's just not Thanksgiving without this parade," Brooke Anderson of "The Insider" says of her holiday TV history as she readies to co-anchor "The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS" Thursday, Nov. 22.... -
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Elmo sings 'nothing's going to bring us down'
Pop2itElmo and Big Bird rode on a float in the 2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and sang "What I Am." Elmo's solo included the lyric, Nothing's going to bring us down."...
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