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'Wing,' 'ER' Favored by Prism
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By Cynthia Littleton

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC dramas "The West Wing (news -
web sites)" and "ER" are among the top television nominees for the
seventh annual Prism Awards, which aim to recognize accurate
depictions of drug and alcohol use in film, TV music and other media.



Feature films in contention are "Changing Lanes," "Divine Secrets of
the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," "Narc," "Salton Sea" and "Skins."


Actors in each of those films were also among the nominees announced
Tuesday: Graham Greene (news) ("Skins"), Samuel L. Jackson (news)
("Changing Lanes"), Ashley Judd (news) ("Ya-Ya Sisterhood"), Val
Kilmer (news) ("Salton Sea") and Jason Patric (news) ("Narc").


Among the networks, NBC led with 13 nominations, including three
apiece for "West Wing" and "ER," followed by CBS, MTV and VH1 with six
apiece.


Performers nominated in the TV drama series category were "ER's" Alex
Kingston (news), "West Wing's" Tim Matheson and John Spencer (news),
Nancy McKeon (news) of Lifetime's "The Division" and Patricia
Richardson (news) of Lifetime's "Strong Medicine."


On the TV comedy series side, Bernie Mac (news) and Camille Winbush of
Fox's "The Bernie Mac Show" are competing against Anthony Clark (news)
of CBS' "Yes, Dear," Tracee Ellis Ross (news) of UPN's "Girlfriends"
and John Slattery of NBC's "Ed."


In longform TV, the nominees are Showtime's "Last Call" and "Our
America," Sundance Channel's "Margarita Happy Hour," Lifetime's "The
Secret Life of Zoey" and MTV's "Wasted."


The Prism Awards are sponsored by the Entertainment Industries
Council, a nonprofit group that focuses on such social issues as drug
abuse, violence and AIDS (news - web sites) awareness, in partnership
with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institute of
Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health (news - web sites).


The Prism Awards ceremony will be taped May 8 in Los Angeles for
telecast May 25 as an hourlong special on FX.


Reuters/VNU

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