Nation's Springfields vie for `Simpsons'
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With a bowling alley, a pub, a prison and a nuclear power plant just down the road, Springfield, Vt., likes to think itself a real-life version of the home of "The Simpsons."
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Inspired by âAmerican Idol,â voter-based competitions are proliferating in every corner of the entertainment world.
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Welcome home to Springfield, Vermont,  Homer and Marge Simpson.
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LOS ANGELES  - Viewers who take   pleasure in the antics of Bart and Homer Simpson will be   treated to an exclusive online look at the season-premiere   episode of "The Simpsons" beginning Friday, two days before its   network debut on Fox.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - More than three dozen original songs from the past nine seasons of "The Simpsons" have been collected for an album.
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LOS ANGELES  - The always fierce  competition among comics to land a gig on NBC's "Saturday Night  Live" is set to become the basis of a reality series for the  network.
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AS the beer-swilling head of a dysfunctional family, Homer Simpson seems an unlikely role model for the Church of England.  Yet the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks the slobbish cartoon character is just the man to attract youngsters to services.
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DALLAS -- Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.
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Vermont town wins battle with 13 other Springfields across US to screen The Simpsons Movie first.
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By Mike Riopell  SPRINGFIELD - The state's chance to lure a state-of-the-art power plant and the hundreds of jobs it could bring to east-central Illinois could hinge on lawmakers' repairs to key legislation.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland  - She walks the streets  unrecognized despite providing the voice of TV's most infamous  animated rapscallion, but it seems a little bit of Bart Simpson  has seeped into Nancy Cartwright.
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On Christmas afternoon, ABC will air a special episode of its hit series âLost.â Only this one will star the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, two teams desperately trying
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Already tabbed as Scotland's version of The Simpsons, the BBC series The Clan is set to make its radio debut and is eyeing a possible TV expansion.
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By John Patterson Daily Herald State Government Editor  jopatterson@@dailyherald.com  SPRINGFIELD - A plan to ease AT&T's entry into the cable television market cleared the state House on Thursday, but only after consumer and local government protections were added.
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Looking for a hit during prime-time&#39;s comedy drought, NBC is gambling on a long shot: a pricey, computer-generated cartoon. Father of the Pride (Tuesday, 9 pm ET/PT), a fanciful
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"Meet Me at the Beach" to benefit the Springfield Children's Museum will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lake Springfield Beach.  Contests, prizes, face paintings, food and other activities will be featured. Ice cream will be served from 2 to 4 p.m. There will a bounce house and slide.
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Welcome home to Springfield, Vermont,  Homer and Marge Simpson. The Vermont town on Tuesday beat 13  other Springfields from around the United States in an online  vote for the right to host the premiere of the upcoming  Simpsons movie featuring the popular television cartoon family.