What is the lure of the awful female lead role to an excellent actress? Why, that it is a female lead role.
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Friday Hoyden: Deborah Mailman
Deborah Mailman has been one of Australia’s most beloved actors for a couple of decades now, despite managing to look twenty only recently in the Sapphires.
Gratuitous Rufus Sewell blogging
thank you so much, web searchers, for alerting me to a show starring Rufus Sewell that I can now gleefully anticipate turning up here in Oz in the not too distant future
WARNING: “disability theme”
A new UK film, “Special People”, has had a special warning slapped on it by the film classification board. The film, which casts actors with disabilities in a comedy about film-making, continues to carry the warning, because the Board only… Read More ›
Whoydensday: Guess Who’s Guesting?
Update: Oops – forgot that some people might not like casting spoilers. Moving the casting rumours to the end of the post behind a cut. The title of the Christmas Episode has been revealed: The Next Doctor. RTD is mucking… Read More ›
CSIRO report: levels of childhood obesity have remained largely unchanged for the past decade
Research casts doubt on ‘obesity epidemic’ New government research shows that levels of childhood obesity have remained largely unchanged for the past decade. For the first time since the mid 1990s, government scientists asked a large number of Australian children… Read More ›
Whoydensday quickhit: Nine or Ten?
I’m working on a long post which is being a tad recalcitrant, so talk among yourselves. Which Doctor do you prefer, and does that preference extend to other work from the same actors? Or did you not know either Christopher… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 