Film, media and art links
A personal remembrance and appreciation of Brittany Murphy.
A scene from The Matrix done as Lego™ stop motion.
A wonderful 70 minute takedown of Phantom Menace.
About an aid charity ad that is wrong on so many levels.
The BBC decides “should homosexuals be killed?’ is a question to put to viewers.
About Siouxsie and the Banshees and the origins of the Goth.
Why quality TV drama is booming in the US and fading in the UK. (It is the old story of vigorous competition versus stifling monopoly.)
About how graphic content sells less movies than the lack of it.
William Shatner interviews Rush Limbaugh: a fun interview.
Ideologically targeting a up-and-coming young (British) actor. About that.
Moves afoot in the UK to wind back the global use of English courts to sue for libel. Tiger Woods provides a splendid example of the problem.
The Lupe Velez story.
The film An Education as a study in anti-Semitic stereotypes:
My husband and the two friends with whom I went to see “An Education” did not initially recognize the stereotypes in the film. They had never experienced anti-Semitism; they had never felt like strangers in an inhospitable culture. They had never seen a Nazi propaganda film. The wandering Jew was unfamiliar to them - and perhaps meaningless in America, a land of immigrants, pioneers and vagabonds.
On the other hand, my close friend, Julia Ribak, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, found the movie deeply disturbing. Her mother had often described the hateful images of Jews that resulted in Auschwitz. “The movie is a magnificent and nasty creation of propaganda,” Julia e-mailed me. “The writer managed to include everything ... everything that would make the viewer of the film walk away hating Jews!”
And also.
Associated Press thought the Climategate emails were worth 5 reporters: Sarah Palin’s biography was worth 11. Pointing out that one AP reporter is, in reporting on the Climategate emails, reporting on himself. A Guardian blogger is unhappy that a BBC reporter is not holding the line properly. The creator of Not Evil Just Wrong has some fun at Copenhagen in a Polar Bear suit … A seasonal carol: the 12 days of global warming. A former BBC science populariser booed off stage at an audience of liberal atheists for doubting CAGW: it is OK to be sceptical about God but you shouldn’t insult religious beliefs like that.
The Tehran Times runs Fidel Castro on Copenhagen. So does the Sydney Morning Herald.
About hiding behind the mantra of “science” and patent double standards:
When a business accused of fraud begins shredding its memos and deleting its e-mails, the media are quick to proclaim these actions as signs of guilt. But, after the global warming advocates began a systematic destruction of evidence, the big television networks went for days without even reporting these facts, much less commenting on them. …
People who have in the past applauded whistleblowers in business, in the military, or in Republican administrations, and who lionized the New York Times for publishing the classified Pentagon papers, are now shocked and outraged that someone dared to expose massive evidence of manipulations, concealment and destruction of data - and deliberate cover-ups of all this - in the global warming establishment.
In Oz, The Age and the ABC had more coverage, more quickly, of the Quadrant footnote scam than they have had of the CRUtape letters: which says so much.
A scene from The Matrix done as Lego™ stop motion.
A wonderful 70 minute takedown of Phantom Menace.
About an aid charity ad that is wrong on so many levels.
The BBC decides “should homosexuals be killed?’ is a question to put to viewers.
About Siouxsie and the Banshees and the origins of the Goth.
Why quality TV drama is booming in the US and fading in the UK. (It is the old story of vigorous competition versus stifling monopoly.)
About how graphic content sells less movies than the lack of it.
William Shatner interviews Rush Limbaugh: a fun interview.
Ideologically targeting a up-and-coming young (British) actor. About that.
Moves afoot in the UK to wind back the global use of English courts to sue for libel. Tiger Woods provides a splendid example of the problem.
The Lupe Velez story.
The film An Education as a study in anti-Semitic stereotypes:
My husband and the two friends with whom I went to see “An Education” did not initially recognize the stereotypes in the film. They had never experienced anti-Semitism; they had never felt like strangers in an inhospitable culture. They had never seen a Nazi propaganda film. The wandering Jew was unfamiliar to them - and perhaps meaningless in America, a land of immigrants, pioneers and vagabonds.
On the other hand, my close friend, Julia Ribak, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, found the movie deeply disturbing. Her mother had often described the hateful images of Jews that resulted in Auschwitz. “The movie is a magnificent and nasty creation of propaganda,” Julia e-mailed me. “The writer managed to include everything ... everything that would make the viewer of the film walk away hating Jews!”
And also.
Associated Press thought the Climategate emails were worth 5 reporters: Sarah Palin’s biography was worth 11. Pointing out that one AP reporter is, in reporting on the Climategate emails, reporting on himself. A Guardian blogger is unhappy that a BBC reporter is not holding the line properly. The creator of Not Evil Just Wrong has some fun at Copenhagen in a Polar Bear suit … A seasonal carol: the 12 days of global warming. A former BBC science populariser booed off stage at an audience of liberal atheists for doubting CAGW: it is OK to be sceptical about God but you shouldn’t insult religious beliefs like that.
The Tehran Times runs Fidel Castro on Copenhagen. So does the Sydney Morning Herald.
About hiding behind the mantra of “science” and patent double standards:
When a business accused of fraud begins shredding its memos and deleting its e-mails, the media are quick to proclaim these actions as signs of guilt. But, after the global warming advocates began a systematic destruction of evidence, the big television networks went for days without even reporting these facts, much less commenting on them. …
People who have in the past applauded whistleblowers in business, in the military, or in Republican administrations, and who lionized the New York Times for publishing the classified Pentagon papers, are now shocked and outraged that someone dared to expose massive evidence of manipulations, concealment and destruction of data - and deliberate cover-ups of all this - in the global warming establishment.
In Oz, The Age and the ABC had more coverage, more quickly, of the Quadrant footnote scam than they have had of the CRUtape letters: which says so much.