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'Biggest Loser' casting call Saturday

Calling all 'Losers'The NBC reality competition series "The Biggest Loser" comes to Chicago looking for contestants in an open casting call from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 6, at NBC Tower, 454 N. Columbus Drive, Chicago. Aspirants must be 18 and legal U.S. citizens, and should bring along a photo, whether entering as an individual or a pair. They're also asked not to line up beforehand.A Magic rivalryHBO Sports looks at one of the most intense, but also most sporting rivalries in basketball history in the documentary "Magic Bird: A Courtship of Rivals," of course examining the back-and-forth competition between Earvin Johnson and Larry Bird. It debuts at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 6, on the premium-cable channel.Cheater! Cheater!"Nick News With Linda Ellerbee" goes up against the Oscars with the new special "Cheaters Never Win: True or False?" debuting at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 7, on Nickelodeon. One teenager cogently asks, "We have politicians that have cheated, and look where they are today?"Comic disasterThe 1980 disaster-movie sendup "Airplane!" was one of the first of a new breed of film lampoons, but 30 years later it remains one of the best of the bunch. Robert Hays heads an all-star cast of B-movie actors in the satire, which savages everything from "Airport" to "Saturday Night Fever" and beyond. Its cheap yuks still entertain at 9 p.m. today on Turner Classic Movies.False1280915Robert Hays spoofs "Saturday Night Fever" in Airplane!" False