ESPN ventures into Tribeca Film Festival -

XM MLB Chat found this 4/28/2008 on www.newsday.com [flag]

Somewhere uptown, Chris Berman was busy prepping for the draft, perhaps by spraying Mel Kiper Jr.'s hair. And in Bristol, Stephen A. no doubt was screaming about Shaq or Dirk or Flip. Friday night in Tribeca, though, a less visible, more grown-up tentacle of the ESPN Empire was wrapping itself around sports culture. Wasn't that David Mamet , a writer/director not known to have used the term ... [link]

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Wait til ESPN finds out David Mamet is "no longer a brain-dead liberal"
Published 4/28/2008 by susan mullen at XM MLB Chat
Neil Best from Newsday explains ESPN being at the Tribeca Film Festival and a scene with David Mamet under an ESPN banner. Very good. Mamet's views were ...

'Zen of Bobby V' is featured in ESPN/Tribeca slate
Published 4/28/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
I was fortunate enough Sunday to view seven films in the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, and now know much more than I did 24 hours ago about homeless soccer, the Bocuse D'Or cooking contest, Ugandan boxing, the history of the New York City marathon, old Nets dancers, steroids and Bobby Valentine. I will do my best to review all 12 films in the ESPN festival in the blog and/or newspaper before it ends Sunday. The "Zen of Bobby V," in which three ridiculously young NYU film students spent eight months with Valentine in Japan last year, will be on ...

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