Monthly Archives: July 2008

People I admire (and who happen to be left-handed) #3

Judy Davis is one of my favourite actors and has been ever since My Brilliant Career. She exudes intelligence and poise. Her best performances include A Passage to India, High Tide, Impromptu, Barton Fink and Life With Judy Garland. This … Continue reading

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If you ain’t eatin’ Wham, you ain’t eatin’ ham!

Mamma Mia! I went to see this film with my mum and I suspect that I’m not the only one to do so. The last film I went to see with my mum was Titanic and I suspect the audience … Continue reading

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Happy birthday to Kate Bush – 50 today

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Comics update

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #4-16 (Joss Whedon, Brian K. Vaughan, Drew Goddard, Georges Jeanty, Paul Lee, Cliff Richards, Karl Moline) I blogged about the first three issues and then stopped. I’m not clear why. Ahem, several issues later, … Continue reading

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Heroes – season two

Andy and I struggled to the end of the second season and we won’t be back for more. Dull and, bizarrely, considering its subject matter, unimaginative with awful plotting and glaring errors in logic. The series has managed to kill … Continue reading

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Here’s Penny!

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…and the book just opens to those pages by itself

Mad Men “Marriage of Figaro” A relatively undramatic episode but we learned some interesting snippets. Don may be a Dick (actually we discover when he does the dirty on his daughter during her party that he is definitely a dick). … Continue reading

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More on Dr Horrible and Joss Whedon

A few more thoughts: As a poster at TWOP said we were sold a musical comedy and for two acts it was one and then in the third it became a tragedy – a tragedy that felt rotten – now … Continue reading

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Andy and his big camera

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I guess our next cat is going to be called Penny now.

Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog I don’t think Joss Whedon is my master now. Here was me naively hoping that Penny was Bad Horse because surely she couldn’t be the least fully rounded character and the least important part of a … Continue reading

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