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Sunday, December 08, 2019

Ticket prices up, but Australians aren't shunning live entertainment

He looked like he was dressed for a colonial occupation of Panama, not a funeral
~ Bathroom graffiti 




Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale sweeps AACTA Awards


It's the first time in the awards' history that a woman has claimed the top three prizes for the same film in a single year.


  1. Bringing John Lennon back to life is never easy, actor admits

    Aussie actor John Waters (John Hatton)  is once more bringing John Lennon back to life onstage, but it might be for the last time as he seeks to pass the baton to someone younger.



 Temple

Season 1 Episode 1

Mark Strong stars as Daniel Milton, a respected surgeon who while mourning the death of his wife appears to have got himself involved in a very strange enterprise…

Films of the decade: from Animal Kingdom to La La Land and Get Out









Has Anything Truly Changed For Women Since The Shockingly Subversive Novel ‘In The Cut’?



As In the Cut is reissued, “What is more shocking about the book in 2019 than 1995 … is not the violence, or the fact of a woman having sexual desire, but how little else has changed – from misogyny to the futility of reporting it.” – The Guardian (UK)


WHY DO THE ONE WHO RISE TO THE TOP BUT ARE NO THE CREAM ATTRACT ALLEGED SEX Underground


Brawls, bruised egos, boycotts: Q&A's defining moments

From Zaky Mallah to flying shoes, Q&A has offered viewers a wild ride.

Who was Edison? To his employees, an Ubermensch; to his investors, a fantasist; to his rivals, a publicity whore; to his family, a stranger ...  



GETTING JUDGEY WITH IT: Kinky Kentucky judge, 38, is accused of turning her chambers into a glorified frat house where she ‘pressured attorneys into group sex and had a threesome with her secretary and former church pastor.’




Alternative search engine provides google results but with privacy - FastCompany – “Picture for a moment a version of Google Search that barely evolved from its early years. Instead of a results page cluttered by informational widgets, this one would primarily link out to other sites. And instead of tracking your search history for ad targeting purposes, this search engine would be decidedly impersonal. It turns out that such a thing exists today in Startpage, a Netherlands-based Google search alternative that emphasizes privacy. While it’s not the only privacy-first search engine—DuckDuckGo is a better-known example—Startpage is the only one whose search results come from Google, due to a unique and longstanding agreement in which Startpage pays the search giant to get a feed of links for any search. The result is a search engine that feels a lot like Google did before it leaned into personalized search and advertising—and all of its requisite data collection—about 15 years ago…”


THERE'S LOTS IN A NAME: A brief history of the words used to describe single women over the centuries.



THAT’S NOT BEING A FRAUD, THAT’S BEING INTELLECTUALLY HONEST:  Vegan YouTube star is branded a fraud by her furious followers after revealing she followed the CARNIVORE DIET for 30 days – and insisting the meat-based plan was ‘way better’ than veganism. “‘This may sound surprising but my digestion was honestly totally fine,’ she said. ‘In fact, it was way better than when I was vegan.'” She looks better after 30 days of meat, too.

Doctors Are Turning To YouTube To Learn How To Do Surgical Procedures CNBC. This is “kill me now” of another sort….



  Understanding Shakespeare series contains an abbreviated version of a tragedy — Hamlet,MacbethOthello or Romeo and Juliet — in the form of key scenes starring classically trained actors in costume on barebones sets

The good not done, the love not given, time

Torn off unused …



Colleen P. Murphy, Christopher J. Ryan, Jr. & Yajni Warnapala (Roger Williams), Note-Taking Mode and Academic Performance in Two Law School Courses, 68 J. Legal Educ. 207 (2019):
Our study of whether academic performance in two required doctrinal law school courses was linked to note-taking mode found that, when controlling separately for LSAT, handwriters had a higher combined GPA in those courses than laptop users. Moreover, our results, using a quasi-experimental method (the difference-in-differences analysis) to control for LSAT and to isolate the effect of receiving a memo about the pitfalls of using a laptop to take notes, indicated a substantial positive association at a statistically significant level between handwriting and academic performance.





Aubade

BY PHILIP LARKIN
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.   
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.   
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.   
Till then I see what’s really always there:   
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,   
Making all thought impossible but how   
And where and when I shall myself die.   
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.

Ticket prices up, but Australians aren't shunning live entertainment