Posts by Rob Stowell
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During negotiations, you may find these useful-
7-step guideline for film budgets.
1. films are works of imagination: find a quiet, peaceful place, where you can set your mind free.
2. Dream of the largest sum of money you can conceive; enough to keep your children's children in caviar and polo-ponies. Enter in box B (you may have to expand B)
3. Compensate for the Matrimonial properties act: in box M, add up past, present and future partners- for yourself, but don't forget to project forward to your children and children's children. Multiply B by M in box C.
4. Take a deep breath and add a zero.
5. Screw down crew contracts to 24 working hours a day, with meals and time wasted sleeping and eating deducted at source. Add a clause to the effect that these generous terms will likely bankrupt you, the noble employer.
6. Multiply box C by 0.63 for "contingencies".
7. Sleep on it, in case you you've forgotten some vital location-scouting in Vanuatu. -
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WRT i-tunes and the differential with US pricing: would their be legal problems with a business set-up to either provide "The World" with a US billing address, or simply act as a "middleman" (like a "paypal" credit system) to extend US pricing (plus a few percent) to the world? Cos the US dollar don't look all that healthy medium-term, and I can't see i-tunes lowering world prices to compensate, so it's likely to get worse.
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Ok so Dilmah tea goes off the shopping list. I don't want to support companies that support Investigate's rubbish. I'd be very interested to know if there was church support of some sort as well.
While I reckon Wishart has moved rightwards over the last decade, he has a track record of attacking govts and perceiving conspiracies on all sides: I don't think anyone in politics is gonna defend him.
The bigger issue is how the MSM are "using" him. The big SST front-pager on what "investigate" was about to publish about Clark/Davis wasn't the start, but it was a clear step over the line.
This Drudge-like symbiotic relationship with the MSM needs to be clearly identified, discussed and preferably stopped. The msm are using IW but there's no doubt he's gonna sell a lot more with all this publicity: it's a nasty circle. It's hard to jump on individuals in the msm- who face a lot of sales and competition pressure- but every one of the big editors needs to step back and think clearly about where this is going. -
Hang tough in the negotiations, M. This could be an expensive one- we may need a MacGuffin- believe there's a shortage and they're very expensive, was hoping we could lease but none in the country.
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I have an associate in the freezing works and Milo has eaten. He'll sleep. As long as the lawyers have all the money, we're safe.
MerkProduktionz despite our bad-rep with certain North american industry backers, is attracting friends. Is this good? -
Hamish! lock the doors, bar the windows, don't open the door to anything that hisses! iT'S ALL FALLING TO CUSTARD! Milo is ravenous, JK has the msm eating from his pocket and M and R- well, I found this in the Diamond Harbour Herald, Mar 13, 2006:
The That's not Funny Fraud Office moved yesterday to close down "Over-givers Anonymous", a Helensvile-based non-profit organisation. Over-givers Anonymous is a registered charity, dedicated, in the words of its publicity material, to "providing much-needed help to those in our communities hardest-hit by the scourge of compulsively donating to charities. These addicts have for too long been forgotten, their unfortunate affliction often undiagnosed. Now they have found a home: Over-givers Anonymous- we care about your Cash!."
In his statement, Judge Atropos noted "OA is a flimsy fabrication disguising a despicable scam that targets some of our most vulnerable rich people."
The CEO of OA, who has name-suppression, is said to be a prominent local film mogul. The spokespig, a guineapig with alopecia denied any wrong-doing on the part of OA but directed all questions to "Wotan@Hotmail.coughcoughdowereallyhavetogothere. A That's Not Funny- No, Stop Laughing, Really It's Not! Fraud Office spokeperson relayed grave fears that OA's missing database could have fallen into the wrong hands, leaving literally dozens of the nation's wealthiest addicts at risk.Keep you mitts on the money! -( You do have the money, don't you?)
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If we have to work Satisfaction into an opera, it'll have to be Faust. JK could do the title role- but check him on the smarmometer.
Can he sing tenor? There are ways, I believe, of modifying the voice- talk to his people, I'll sharpen the knives.
We need the chermans in or out: their waffling is getting expensive. Also, I have sacked the gnomes- but ran out of sacks, so some are in rubbish-bags. -
Yes, it's a dig at Blair
this is smart. After two or three terms most democracies get restless. Signalling a change of style to the electorate so they don't have to vote for one is the smart move. They must be ready for a PM with a low to negative smarm-factor by now.
But the big question is still Iraq. It'll be very interesting to watch Brown handle it. "More of the same" is not going to work. I'd wager the body-language in GB-US summit pressers will look quite different. -
Simply brilliant.
Wonder what that woman at the end was gonna say?