Posts by Geoff Lealand
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I tend to think I felt almost as refreshed as most of the smokers after those little breaks.
I don't think that 'refreshed' is the right word for most unpleasant experience for non-smokers encountering smokers is the smell. Second-hand smoke is not really the issue for me; it is the pong of smoke-saturated clothing or furnishings. Indeed, I prefer the aroma of a well-placed fart as the smell dissipates much more quickly.
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Not so much about smoking and movies--and changing social norms-- but this has prompted a memory of travelling through the Texas Panhandle in the early 1980s. We chanced upon a local museum in some tin-pot town (it may well have been Waco), presided over by a local wizened crone. Poking around the back of this two-room treasure-trove, I chanced on an original Wanted poster for Bonnie & Clyde and I asked the LWC whether she had any memories of the fugitive pair. Her reply (in a barely discernible Texan accent) floored me:
LWC: " I remember 'em but nobody 'round here approved of 'em"
Me: "Why was that?"
LWC : "' 'cause they was living together and they wasn't married!"
Never mind that they were robbing banks and murdering folk!
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the stand-in for the dead man appears to be Nat Torkington.
The bloke applying the squeeze also reminds me of front-row forward I can't quite place.
Incidentally, James Hollings writes carefully and does his research, even if some of his journalists colleagues don't. I have just written a chapter on NZ journalists with him, for a new edition of The Global Journalist (Routledge, forthcoming).
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This happened where?
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Jeremy; are you interested in being a passenger up to the Orcon Great Blend on Sept 10?
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I've heard Matthew Hooten say something absolutely right on Nat Radio.
... and indulged in a bit of teacher-bashing along the way.
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Rupert Murdoch, who lost 90% of his readership when he put up a paywall at The Times website this year,
Was it that substantial? I recall reading a figure of 27% just recently.
then had lunch with Paul Norris, Christine Vavasour and Bryan Pauling
Ruth didn't get a lunch invite?
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Insects In Disguise: I have always been suspicious of Ear-wigs!
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the big attraction for so-called "runaway productions" to places like Wellywood and the slave school of West Auckland is the access to high skill, relatively low-cost labour without having to deal with the US trade guilds.
Coincidentally, I have just been writing about these issues, for the forthcoming Te Papa Press history of NZ film. Technically, the LOTR trilogy was not a 'runaway' production as it was never seriously considered as a US-based film project. Of course, it greatly benefited from the incentives offered in NZ ie a de-unionised workforce, tax breaks, ancillary support and labour (eg the NZ Army building roads), the exchange rate etc.
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or innuendo on a bagel?
(That drug sidebar is still driving me crazy!!)