Posts by Leopold
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The film Once were Warriors in its opening shot expressed concisely what Joy was trying to say, and the sham of 100% Pure - And yet not a word of complaint from the Great nad Good
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None of you young whippersnappers remember the Rex in Riccarton Road, or the incredibly run-down Embassy in the Square, or its neighbour the Crystal Palace, where I witnessed my first Teddy Boy riot just after the showing of 'Six Five Special'?
Ou sont les neiges dantan?..
On a more recent note, the opening, brief flourishing and then closing of the original Light House in Miro Street, Upper Hutt deserves a mention. Its progeny in Petone, Island Bay and Pauatanui live on, but thyre not the same as the original... -
I suppose Barry Manilow is too obvious?
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Hard News: Television and the Public Good, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Except that the goals of Maori TV includes encouraging the use of Maori and gving a Maori perspective - The influx of refugees from non-commercial TV will be mainly Pakeha-based - Will Russell undertake to conduct the programme in Maori? while I am happy enough to have some films and documentaries in language other than Maori, and for the channel to act in some respects as a Kiwi version of the brilliant Australian SBS, too much Pakeha material, no matter how worthy, will only act to the disadvantage of the Maori (and multicultural!) component.
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Mr Parker now threatening a dictatorship to save Mr Marryatt's pittance? Curioser and curioser
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sacha,
`The coiffed white knight`' of public broadcasting and TV?
Your evidence is??
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Red-stickered - Has expanded from original meaning - In the doco on the earthquake, someone mentioned his marriage was such. And have heard it outside Chch
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Russell Brown,
We're getting into Police Chief Wiggum territory here
I thought Police could use their discretion... -
Bit of a fake brouhaha cooked up between Joyce and Herald management to keep any Green and or Labour policy launches off the front pages? (Zac was just a one day drunk wonder?