“The most interesting question about Fox is, ‘What do you do when you realize you’re not going to be the person that you want to be?'”
Hang a shining star
upon the highest bough ... Cold River Minus 37 Years ;-)
The Chair of the committee, Luke Howarth MP, stated that
‘Australia’s film and television industry makes very important cultural and
economic contributions to the nation. These proposed reforms will greatly enhance
the growth and sustainability of this industry into the future.’
‘Technological advances have significantly changed the
way Australians now access their screen content and the policy settings need to
be updated to reflect this’, added Mr Howarth.
The report can
be accessed from the Committee’s website Recommendations for reforms to the film and television industry announced .
TONIGHT WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 1982: A Band Without a No. 1 Hit Is Outselling Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran
IT’S OFFICIAL — NOW EVERYTHING IS OVER-HOPPED: Scientists turn beer into fuel
You Know How People Start Reading Books And Don’t Finish? They’re No Better About Audiobooks
“New stats revealed this week by audiobooks.com showed how many (or few) of us get to the end of a range of audiobooks. They make tough reading for Craig Oliver, whose No 10 [Downing St] Brexit memoirs, Unleashing Demons, kept only 20% of readers rapt until the end. The oft-unfinished War and Peace retained about the same proportion through its 60-plus hours of narration (stats were not available for Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time).”
Ambassador's
home movie: ‘My turn to ratify my own relationship’
The sheer nerdiness is very endearing.
The sheer nerdiness is very endearing.
THE GODFATHER AT 45: Why It Endures like The Trial and 1984.
Both Kafka (The Trial) and Orwell (1984)
wrote novels whose plots were set against the background of an
authoritarian state, which exercised its powers via a faceless and
non-accountable bureaucracy. In both novels, the main protagonist
becomes the helpless victim of the system.
If The Godfather (1972) had come out a decade earlier than it actually did, audiences would have resisted it. You can imagine viewers asking: How are we supposed to get wrapped up in the internal disputes of this band of amoral brigands and murderers? Who is the good guy here? Doesn’t the film celebrate evil, or at least condone it? Why is Michael Corleone’s depravity rewarded instead of punished at the end?* * * * * * * *By 1972, the sense that America was not necessarily being run on the square had serious traction. The Pentagon Papers had been published the year before. Vietnam seemed to be rife with dishonor. At one point, Kay says that, unlike Vito Corleone, “Senators and presidents don’t have men killed.” It’s a view nearly everyone shared in 1962, but by 1972 the audience’s sympathies were with Michael, who responds that Kay is being naïve.
Amazon's data theft means it's a real Big Bother
‘What
law change?’ Same-sex couples on registries’ backlog.
NSW alone is letting same-sex couples pre-emptively notify their marriage plans. For the other BDM registries it's bureaucratic tradition: 'computer says no'.
NSW alone is letting same-sex couples pre-emptively notify their marriage plans. For the other BDM registries it's bureaucratic tradition: 'computer says no'.