It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m sitting at home with the blinds drawn. It’s bloody hot outside today and the drawn blinds, combined with shorts only and a floor fan is the most environmentally friendly way I can think of to keep cool. Mind you, I could always go the shopping centre or the pub? Hmmm… let me think about that. The last few days have been reasonably active, both socially and with work. I have…
“The Windows Project” featured compositions by many of the most talented composers of Australian musical theatre and cabaret including Phil Scott, Eddie Perfect and Matthew Robinson, although I’m not exactly sure which came first… the musical or the songs. All of the songs contain a reference here and there to windows or glass, with recurrent themes of seeing reflections, looking at people from a distance and breaking glass as a metaphor. Some of the best…
The premise for Mrs Henderson Presents is that upon the death of her husband, a very wealthy English woman opens a theatre in London which, through a series of circumstances, becomes the venue for a nude review. Dame Judi Dench plays Mrs Henderson with all of the integrity that you would expect from her. But also with great humour as Mrs Henderson is not the dowager you expect at the beginning of the film. She’s…
“Good Night, and Good Luck” is a highly stylised film dealing with the impact of McCarthyism on journalism. The central focus is the decision of a real-life television program hosted by Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) who decides that McCarthy needs to be confronted and exposed for the unfair impact he was having on the lives of so many people. The motivation for this was an obscure news item about an air force serviceman who…
It’s Sunday night and I’ve just watched the Kath & Kim telemovie (which was reasonably funny) and have chatted on the phone with Sue. It was a good day, today, travelling to Newcastle for a meeting of our art group, Hawkesbury One. It was a really successful meeting and I’m pretty excited about some of the purchases we’ve made and that I’ll soon by hosting this terrific piece by Arryn Snowball. Last week I mentioned…
It’s Sunday afternoon and I’ve just arrived back home after lunch, a very yummy Masala Dhosa, at the Indian cafe next to the Dhaba on Cleveland Street. While having lunch I read through the Sunday Telegraph. There was not much of interest in today papers, although I did guess the identity of one of the “Guess Who? Don’t Sue!” people in Ros Reines column. However, the television guide was good as I discovered a documentary…