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At last! You may now vote for the Readers’ Choice IVy Awards OFFICIAL NOMINEES!

Feel free to vote in as many or as few categories as you choose. You may only vote once for each category. Top five vote-getters will be the official nominees. 

Note that to be a nominee, a candidate must receive at least three votes. Each category must ultimately have at least three nominees. If any category receives fewer nominees, that category will be canceled. Wow! Hahaha! Do I ever feel silly for even mentioning this now.

Look here for a discussion of the candidates. Polling closes at 12:00 PST AM on Saturday, March 8, 2008. Thanks for voting!

(Click the link below to see the full slate of categories and candidates.)

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tags: tv movies, tv history, events

In November 1983, I was seven years old. I was in a school play at my private school about the life and works of Walt Disney, and I was playing Peter Pan. It was the first time I had ever acted in anything, but this story is not about being bitten by “the acting bug” as James Lipton would call it.

I remember after one performance (or maybe it was a rehearsal), my father said he was in a rush to get home. My father was the most charming, most sociable person I’ve ever known. It was simply unlike him to rush out of any social gathering, particularly one related to theater (he himself having been an actor who had once moved to LA to become a movie star). What could possibly have compelled him to zip past the comraderie of post-rehearsal off hours? Only a very urgent appointment, indeed.

The appointment, as I recall vividly, was meeting his friend Anna and her son Brian as the four of us (my brother and sister were far too young, and my mother must have been out of town, in school or working) watched the ABC movie of the week The Day After.

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