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...wait. The Oscars are on ABC this year, and the XFL was NBC's attempt to cut into the popularity of the NFL after it failed to snag the television rights. Monday Night Football is on ABC. It all makes sense...
...chosen alternative is Big Apple, produced by David Milch, creator of that other seminal '90s drama, NYPD Blue. The premise: the FBI's New York City office is investigating the Russian mob (and perhaps persons much higher) when it runs into a snag--dogged N.Y.P.D. cop Mike Mooney (Ed O'Neill, who almost makes you forget he's Al Bundy and the 1-800-COLLECT guy). When Mooney, looking into a stripper's murder, steps on the FBI's case, the bureau folds him and his partner into its team. But the two cops find themselves steered wrong...
With only one homestand left to play in the regular season, the Harvard men's hockey team has one last chance to snag home-ice for the first round of the ECAC playoffs...
...Indian state of Maharashtra, which has electricity galore, thanks to a major power complex set up by Dabhol Power Co., a consortium of foreign companies led by Enron Corp. of Houston, Texas. But before Maharashtrans fire up their irrigation pumps or coiled-wire tea kettles, there's one small snag: the electricity is so expensive no one can afford it. "More than 600 small manufacturers have already closed down because of high electricity bills," says Ashwin Treasurer, owner of an electronic component factory. "What sort of development is this...
Chocolat won't win the top prize, but it may snag a Best Supporting Actress award for Judi Dench, who has been nominated three of the past four years and won for her cameo as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, especially since the two strongest competitors, Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand, are from a shared film?as mother and muse, respectively, in the Age of Rock memoir Almost Famous...