Filed under: Oscars
Her Majesty, Dame Helen Mirren was named Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 79th Annual Academy Awards. I have loved Helen Mirren sine I first saw her strut her stuff as DI Jane Tennyson in the first installment of the Prime Suspect mini-series.
Of course, I had seen her before in ‘The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,’ but it was the chain-smoking intensity of the brittle but dogged Tennyson that made me love her.
So here’s to the Queen, Dame Helen Mirren.
I love the Oscars, but they do go on. Last night it was a two hour show stretched over four hours. And no matter how good Ellen Degeneres was, no-one can lift the excruciatinglyllong and tedious moments.
Anna Coren and the vile bastards at Today Tonight are cretins who once again have been up to their old tricks. This week has seen them report on an 84 year-old granny who was allegedly chained to her bed in the nursing home she resided in. Fortunately for the chained-up granny, it wasn’t the staff of the nursing home that chained her to the bed, it was the Today Tonight reporter, a pigs abortion named Nicholas Boot.
Alarmed at seeing an 84 year-old chained like a dog, the Commonwealth Minister for Aging, Santo Santoro sent departmental staffers to the home to investigate whereupon they found Shirley Frey free to roam the corridors of her confinement. When asked, Mrs Frey told departmental officers that Mr Boot had brought the chains to illustrate the point that she felt like a prisoner in the nursing home.
Coren apologises, but it is too little too late.
The following night Coren was forced to eat mea culpa cake. The Sydney Morning Herald Online reports the following statement was made.
“Now we need to set the record straight, last night we featured a report on 84-year-old Shirley Frey, a nursing home resident locked in a battle with the operators of the home. That battle continues. We reported that Shirley was living chained to her room. In fact, this is not the case. Today Tonight reporter Nicolas Boot took the chain with him to illustrate the fact Shirley felt like a prisoner in her room. We regret the actions of this journalist and are investigating the matter internally. We apologise to our viewers if you felt misled.”
Well Anna, viewers felt misled because they were misled. You and your programme manufactured and distorted a series of events to score an additional ratings point or two.
You lied. Simple.
This makes the people who make Today Tonight liars and not fit to report the news.
Filed under: Anna Nicole Smith
I have a secret.
Anna Nicole Smith and I were lovers. She was a great fuck. But that is not important. What is important, as I wade through my grief, is that we acknowledge that the world has lost one of the great intellects.
Who else could move from trailer-trash tart, to Playboy Playmate, celebrity-widow and all the way back to junkie moll in a matter of years. And ya know what? The really cool thing is that she didn‘t have to spend her own money.
So here’s to us – the junkie molls, and searching for the men who will pay for us.
I am not meant to work!
It is no secret that I hate my job. I also loathe, detest and resent its intrusion on my life and my increasing frustration about my inability to get out and find omething meaningful to do.
As it is I work for a multinational oil company. I look after their records. I don’t do anything else. I have asked. I need to do something else and talk to people.
I was thinking last night, I may quit. I’ll give notice on Friday. It would have to be better than this misery.
Scissor Sisters are way cool. And so am I!One way or another we are all Scissor Sisters, and I had the pleasure of again seeing them at the craptacular Vodafone Arena here in Melbourne on Friday. I was ever so excited, and only a little disappointed as the sound at Vodafone Arena was dreadful. It reverberated off the walls and to my ears it was muddy. That said though; Jake Shears and Ana Matronic put on a damn fine show.
They bounce, prance, strut and sing. And then of course there are the songs. Whether it is the Bee Gees that they are channelling, or Brian Ferry and Roxy Music, the music is energetic and fairly hums along.
I had a great time, improved by chemicals and expectation. I was also told that at one stage I was swaggering. Oh God bless Ecstasy, it allows me to be what I struggle to be.
For me the highlight was a rocky version of Take Your mama Out, but most of the crowd went crack-a-dog to I don’t feel like dancin‘.
Whatever – they danced, they sang, we danced, we sang and it was great. 
