Posts by Joe Wylie
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Have to agree, Coddington's swipe at Juliette Veber's film was ignorant and underhand. If anything, Trouble is My Business is the sort of film that the Commission should be more involved with making. I have no idea what struggles Veber had to go through to get her film made, but there's no way she could have been the recipient of some kind of privileged favouritism. Shame on Coddington for implying it.
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More a vote for a word I don't want to hear any more:
"Gutted"Isn't Gutted the flipside of Awesome? While it might not have trickled down from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, both words convey a sense of extreme slack-jawed emotion.
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The annoying thing is, the rest of Coddington's column is fair argument. That's not to say that I necessarily agree . . .
It's a bit depressing that until her departure from parliament in 2005 Coddington was about the only opposition politician taking any kind of interest in the off-the-rails antics of the Film Commission.
Back in 2003 when former Commission CEO Ruth Harley appointed herself as a producer on Spooked, one of many NZFC-backed flops, it was Coddington who pointed out the glaring contradiction with the then Associate Minister for Arts and Culture Judith Tizard's statement that the Commission was not in the business of producing films.
National have shown practically no interest in taking an effective opposition role on arts matters, and Ruth Harley has gone on to accept an appointment from the sadly diminished federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett to head the recently formed Screen Australia. It's a huge irony that most media coverage of Harley's appointment has linked her name with the success of Peter Jackson, who has described her as a self-serving bureaucrat.
Apart from those within the industry such as John Barnett, it's only the otherwise irritating Coddington who'll speak out.
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We mustn't forget 'hockey mom'...
We'll remember. Just as we remember Dan "potatoe" Quayle.
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So, is Noelle McCarthy's passing off sections of the work of others as her own inherently different from that for which Alexis Stuart lost her job?
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I don't think you read that right ...
Weeeell . . . "changes in visual perception" doesn't quite strike me as full-on living-colour 3d with surround sound hallucinations. For that you'd need something with suspected side effects such as minor brain damage - and, probably, zero antitussinal properties. Whether a long-term impairment in the ability to read things right could be a worthwhile tradeoff for class-A hallucinations I no longer have the ability to say.
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. . . resist the temptation to make non-medical use of my cough syrup . . .
According to that link it sounds pretty resistable. You'd have to sink at least 250ml of vile-flavoured concoction just to reach the "fourth plateau", and still only experience stage one hallucinations, i.e. distortions of mundane reality. To make it worthwhile you'd expect to be able to see things that aren't even there.
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Shr3wd.
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Russell don't you know that a turd from leadership is merely the manure from which life springs to the minions below? To polish it would be a positive joy.
Reminds me of a Singaporean shopping mall, where a running stream, complete with tropical vegetation, flowed for several stories between the escalators. The higher you got, the stronger was the whiff of raw sewage. The trickle-down theory, applied.
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. . . posting 10,000 word exerpts from Ayn Rand books. Torybots do that if misconfigured, you know.
Um, isn't that what they're designed to do? After years spent muttering about the last to leave turning off the lights - while never leaving themselves - they tend to click into overdrive at the slightest hint of a false Dawn of Rationality.