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By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | September 5, 2007

Dumbing down America, part 1785
A new tome is getting big play in both the book review and sports sections of the newspapers and mags these days, I Dream in Blue, by Roger Director, a Los Angeles-based TV screenwriter and producer. It is about his obsession with the New York Giants of the NFL.

Like those Hollywood brain-deads in linen suits with cancer tans out in LaLaLand who crank out remakes and insipid three-quels, because they have the creative minds of tadpoles, Director’s new book brings to mind a previous venture into these waters, A Fan’s Notes, by Fred Exley, a brilliant fictional memoir that was the first in a trilogy (including Pages from a Cold Island and Last Notes from Home), published in 1968. A Fan’s Notes also focused on the protagonist’s obsession with Giants, blending in alcoholism and other less glamorous facets of life in an “unhuman society.”

Frank Gifford, we hardly knew ye.

Send sacred texts and Pulitzer-grade tips to p&j@phx.com.

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