Minka Kelly as Lyla Garrity

It's fall 2006, and I'm sitting in a dark theater with a few friends, waiting for The Covenant to start. A trailer for some typical football show comes on. Ugh, football. How I loathe thee. But hey, the long-haired witch guy from the movie we're about to troll will be in it, sooo... a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

I watch the pilot at home on premiere night - October 3, 2006 - and when it's over, I am confused. I hate football. I hate sports and players and cheerleaders and enthusiasm and high school. So why the hell did I love this show?

Friday Night Lights has been over for quite...

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DISASTER! A 70’s Disaster Movie Musical! Written by: Seth Rudetsky & Jack Plotnick St. Luke’s Theatre- 308 West 46th Street New York, NY 10016 DisasterMusical.com

It's 1979 and all the hottest New York City A-Listers are putting on their platform shoes and polyester disco shirts and heading to the grand opening of Manhattan's first floating casino and discotheque. Little do they know that their night of boogie fever, Farrah Fawcett-feathered-hair and Bella Abzug hats will end in....DISASTER! Who will survive? Who will...