Posts by Craig Ranapia
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I think Leroy (the actor) died in Paris relatively recently, in straitened circumstances. RIP Leroy.
Gene Anthony Ray died in 2003, due to complications from a stroke and was reportedly HIV-positive (which can't have helped). Apparently, the same old story -- a hell of a lot of money got turned into a hell of a lot of drugs and booze, which destroyed his ability to work (along with a rather messy family), and he just never quite got his shit together long enough for a second act.
I loved the Fame movie too - especially how Leroy would parade around on rollerskates, cut-off jean shorts and a belly-button-revealing cropped T-shirt with "L E R O Y" on it and he was supposed to be playing a heterosexual hottie. But it fooled me as a child!
Wouldn't read too much into that -- remember it was New York. The 70's. Leg-warmers and spandex were unisex. They were different times...
Debbie Allen, OTOH, just keeps on sweating -- and I've got to admit the all-black production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which opens in previews on Broadway next week, has a damn impressive cast. Hope Allen's direction is up to it, because her last turn on Broadway -- choreographer of the infamously stinky Carrie: The Musical -- wasn't exactly a resume enhancer.
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2. Friday's Herald had the alarming headline "Government to attack graffiti artists from all sides", making it sound like Annette King was about to lay the smack down on graffiti artists like Askew, Misery or Otis Frizzell. Crikey!
No, judging from the story King just wants to put the load of bullshit that is the Manukau City Council (Control of Graffiti)in a brand new box. And considering King's rather unfortunate musings, who wants to bet King is going to be offering Lara Norder (say it fast) ASBO-rtion on demand?
After all, King's Law of Common Sense sez they're never, every going to be abused here, right?
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Have I just had my piss taken?
Steve you are an evil bastard -- keep it up. :)
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So, in reality it would take a rather demented Attorney-General to bring such a case............I hope
If you'd told me ten years ago that 'sedition' was still on the books, let alone would be used as it was against Tim Selwyn, I'd suggest you take one of those giraffe cups and provide a sample for multiple drug tests.
Got to agree with I/S, when you've got a bad law that's well past its use by date, then you're asking for trouble by leaving it on the books.
It is not the role of government to promote "correct" theology or religious views...
Certainly not, unless someone created a de jure state religion while I wasn't looking. And let's get practical about this for a moment: Who becomes the benchmark for 'blasphemy' -- Anglicans, Orthodox Jews and Sunni Muslins... or Catholics, Reform Jews and Shiites. Then you move on to Buddhism and Hundus and the fun really begins.
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<irony>Thanks</irony> I'm going to need surgery to get that revolting image out of my mind now -
A minor talent, but you have to work with what you got. :)
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douglasof240:
Thanks for refreshing my memory, but I thought it was a little more serious than a Murdoch media beat-up based on a couple of quotes lacking citations.
Anyway, before we start up a pity party for Dr. Goodwin, she might be off the speed dial at the PBS Newshour, but she still obviously has enough credibility out there to pick up the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for history and appear regularly on NBC as a news analyst.
Probably helped that she's not in academia, where plagiarism isn;t (or shouldn't be) a good career move.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin? Lordy, she's the one accused of plagiarism in her presidential biographies(by the Weekly Standard, but hey...
Well, I'd even give The Nation credit where credit's due -- on the theory that even a broken watch is right twice a day.
So. The Herald Building is "The Shakespeare Tavern"?
Nope, but what self-respecting Lunchtime O'Booze is going to waste good drinking time by going any further than strictly necessary. The other side of Albert Street is as close as you can get without replacing the tea room coffee machine with a wet bar.
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I fear that would lead to defenses along the lines of "she can't have been raped, she's too stoic."
Stephen, I think we live in a Oprah-ised culture where there's something horribly wrong with you if you're not a performing trauma-monkey. Then, of course, you're damned all the same if you're a rape complainant - because any visible signs of distress is just proof you're a hysterical dingbat.
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Amy Gale digests Titus Andronicus in lolcat. Genius.
BLOODY CLEVR. YOOVE FINISHED? TRY TEH SKINHEDD HAMLET!
HEREZ TASTE:
ACT I
SCENE IThe Battlements of Elsinore Castle.
[Enter HAMLET, followed by GHOST.]
GHOST: Oi! Mush!
HAMLET: Yer?
GHOST: I was fucked!
[Exit GHOST.]
HAMLET: O Fuck.
[Exit HAMLET.]
LOL
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I'm just a bit surprised it took so long for the jury to reach the verdicts it did.
Well, I find it rather encouraging. Suggests to me that in a sex crime case, the jurors didn't pull a Corbett, decide the complainant was a skanky whore who deserved everything she got, and took a few minutes to carefully consider all the evidence. (Obviously, the came to the conclusion that the prosecution failed to prove the charges beyond reasonable doubt.) You know, do what juries are supposed to do.
I have only heard Plunket once this year. But Russell's comment and that hearing suggests to me that he's going a bit feavourish again. Can anyone confirm this or reassure me this is not the case?
A bit of both -- ITA agree with Russell that interview was weird. But even Saint Geoff Robinson (whose blood is the most efficient sedative known to man) has his off days. When Geoff gets into fawn-mode the sucking noises are awe-inspiring. :)
Whatever way you look at it, though, did anyone else look at his wife with their wee baby on her hip, and feel uneasy?
To put it mildly, Jackie. In her position, I'd have fronted to court but not cuddled up for the media. Sorry for sounding like an old fogey, but if I found out my partner was trolling for sex in bars while drunk, I'd not only be moving out but getting an STD screen. FUI offenders aren't the most careful practitioners of safer sex. And the time they get caught out is seldom the first offence.
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