Posts by philipmatthews
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Ah, Sevalan, Sevalan, and your shiny boots of leather.
Strike, dear mistress, and cure my heart.
Reminds me too strongly of Anita McNaught, I'm afraid.
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It comes after your astute and well-analysed stuff and doesn't do well by comparison. Maybe if they rescheduled it....
Someone else might have said this on PAS, but it feels like The Ad Show -- or at least its host -- is in thrall to the industry it covers in a way that Media 7 definitely isn't. It lacks that critical edge and feels very in-house. A tendency by those in that industry to be very smug and un-selfexamining doesn't help either. Won't be watching it again.
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Very surprised by this one. Knew something was out of the ordinary when Paul Henry mentions Malcolm McLaren on Breakfast.
Thinking about this earlier: I wonder if we should see the Duck Rock phase as at least as influential as the Pistols. For a lot of white suburban kids -- I was about 15 -- that was their first real exposure to breakdancing, rapping and world music. The way all that was thrown together in such a mad and lively way seemed pretty radical at the time.
I'd also see him as one of a series of brilliant, devious and opportunistic British managers and pop star manufacturers that goes from Brian Epstein to McLaren to Tony Wilson to Simon Cowell and would take in plenty of other names along the way. The difference with McLaren is that he articulated the artifice and deception in the manufacture of pop stars -- is it a direct line from Sid Vicious to Susan Boyle?
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Interesting McVicar interview. But I would like the 25 minutes I spent watching The Ad Show back.
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I think black and white Dr Who was too scary for my little sister so didn't get to watch it very often, but I much preferred programmes with strong female characters anyway. Bewitched was my favourite, and I have strong memories of Patty Duke playing cousins, Maxwell Smart and the smarter Agent 99, and Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanners' dominance of Coronation Street.
The 1960s as the golden age of women characters on telly? Might be something in that.
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A friend once told me even earlier Doctor Who played on regional TV in New Zealand but I've never seen that confirmed anywhere.
This handy link tells you that it started on regional TV way back in September 1964. Christchurch seems to have got it for six weeks before anyone else.
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People around my age or even a bit younger are telling me that Pertwee was their first. If my memory is in any way reliable, I saw Baker, then at some point Dr Who went back to being in black and white, and there was Pertwee. So either they saw him the first time around and I only came in later, or I came in earlier.
You can figure out what screened when here.
Eg, I think I can recall this exact moment:
The movie Dr Who and the Daleks (1965) made its New Zealand television debut on Wednesday 25 April 1979, screened at 4 PM on SPTV. The film was part of the special Anzac Day public holiday programme line-up.
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My first was Tom Baker as well. In fact, I can remember the first Dr Who story I saw was Terror of the Zygons -- in which alien beings who resembled giant scrotums (the Zygons) had something to do with the Loch Ness Monster. Quite scary if you were about seven.
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Jim Anderton joins the debate:
an English song that sounds like an old beer ad from the 1990s
True. But then, the Feelers could sing Amazing Grace and it would still sound like an old beer ad from the 1990s.
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The list of the films banned includes Nosferatu (banned for excessive horror), Mad Max and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.[5] Films on video and DVD are not censored, but publishers may send them to the board for recommendations.The last mainstream film to be cut was the 1995 film Casino.[6]
Amazingly enough, film fans, that was the Murnau Nosferatu.