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• Gratuitous Eric Bana blogging

  By tigtog on 2008-02-21 • ( 2 )

  Our Eric is going to play ‘enery the Eighth, he is! Did everyone else know already? After my complaints that Jonathon Rhys Meyers really wasn’t beefy enough for my history pedant taste in The Tudors, I think Eric will be… Read More ›

• Is it possible to have too much Emma Peel?

  By tigtog on 2008-02-20 • ( 1 )

  

  You may have noticed that this blog is especially fond of the character Emma Peel as portrayed by Diana Rigg. Well, we’re not the only ones – Shameless blog has a wonderful tribute to Emma Peel, including some facts I… Read More ›

• Leonard Nimoy’s Full Body Project on The Colbert Report

  By tigtog on 2008-02-20 • ( 2 )

  There was quite a bit of reportage on Nimoy’s project last year on various feminist blogs, but we haven’t heard that much lately. The book’s been published now, so he’s on the PR trail, so Colbert had him on for… Read More ›

• Another for the “beware delegating authority to thugs who like uniforms” file

  By tigtog on 2008-02-19

  A baby from Samoa who had been approved entry to the USA for heart surgery in Honolulu dies after being detained in the airport without an oxygen mask due to questions over his mother’s visa (the accompanying nurse and the… Read More ›

• Repellent Robbo, rape apologist

  By tigtog on 2008-02-19 • ( 19 )

  Clive Robertson, the man once considered a charmingly irascible curmudgeon on top rated TV and radio shows now battles to retain a midnight to dawn talk-back radio show, and if there’s any justice then what Media Watch revealed last night… Read More ›

• Howard’s End on Four Corners

  By tigtog on 2008-02-18 • ( 1 )

  Quite rivetting. The irony of them racing off to the ABC for the prestige after years of slagging them as partisan won’t escape anyone, I’m sure. Transcript and streaming video [Flash] [Windows Media Player] on the Four Corners site. There’s… Read More ›

• The continuing Bushite erosion of rights and liberties

  By tigtog on 2008-02-18

  Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, op-eds for the New York Times: My policy as the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo was that evidence derived through waterboarding was off limits…. Read More ›

• Hypocrite Watch: Ben Stein et al

  By tigtog on 2008-02-18

  Bunch of uptight chaps make a documentary (Expelled) about how academia is repressing the rough and tumble of free speech about biological evolution (they think evolution is a pernicious myth). Same bunch of uptight chaps hold “press conferences” where instead… Read More ›

• Last minute film alert

  By tigtog on 2008-02-17 • ( 11 )

  Tonight. 8:30 AEST. The Lion In Winter on Fox Classics. Oldie but goodie, with the older historical hoyden Eleanor of Aquitaine playing a key role (interpreted by Katharine Hepburn). Also Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Terry and a very young… Read More ›

• Sunday Youtubery

  By tigtog on 2008-02-17 • ( 4 )

  A special bonus for our visitors who’ve come to see Doctor Who actors in kilts. No more kilts, but more Tennant and Barrowman! Comic Relief – Catherine Tate & David Tennant Barrowman sings “Anything You Can Do” with Ruthie Henshall: