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60’s kitsch can rarely be done better than
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— 6 Sep 2003 Nick Comment

60’s kitsch can rarely be done better than Modesty Blaise, which I recently saw on American Movie Classics. If you haven’t seen this film, you should: Modesty (portrayed by Italian actress Monica Vitti) uses her Mod-style to bring down th[…]

This question is pre-emptive
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— 6 Sep 2003 mark sinker Comment

This question is pre-emptive, since my friend and I haven’t been yet: but in the course of a project which may take us years – we meet up maybe once every three months, if that – we decided our next meal out together had to be at an[…]

Calendar Girls
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— 5 Sep 2003 Martin Skidmore Comment

I’ve no idea whether Calendar Girls is a good film or not, though I’m always content to watch Julie Walters in anything. I’m reacting here without seeing the film. For those who don’t know, it’s about a true story, a cle[…]

The area around Green Park tube has always struck me as a bad one for pubs
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— 5 Sep 2003 Tom Comment

The area around Green Park tube has always struck me as a bad one for pubs, and last night showed that little has changed in the years since I was a regular drinker there. When I worked in Belgravia, there were three distinct types of local boozers &[…]

CLAY AIKEN – “THIS IS THE NIGHT”
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— 5 Sep 2003 fred Comment

CLAY AIKEN – “THIS IS THE NIGHT”
so this all happens because i happen to be listening to erasure; because i heard this clay aiken song on the radio; and because, hey, doesn’t the nylpm redesign look nice? why not bring the sit[…]

What could be better than Van Halen’s Jump?
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— 5 Sep 2003 Alan Comment

What could be better than Van Halen’s Jump? Only 8-bit arcade-game characters in MameJump that’s what. It’s a smashing little flash anim with the Van Halen song as backing, and Donkey Kong on lead vocals. There are plenty of geeky j[…]

I’ve been reading KING MOB
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— 5 Sep 2003 Tim Comment

I’ve been reading KING MOB: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780, by Christopher Hibbert. I’ve no idea whether it’s a well-regarded pop-history piece or not, but I’m enjoying it despite its rather uneven pacin[…]

The first three things that strike you about the rerelease of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator
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— 4 Sep 2003 Andrew Farrell Comment

The first three things that strike you about the rerelease of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator are that his voice isn’t really that bad, that his acting is really that bad, and that movies have gotten a lot better in the last 60 years. It&#82[…]

What do we learn
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— 4 Sep 2003 byebyepride Comment

What do we learn from Mike Reed’s appearance on Life Laundry? Once again, the show serves up actually quite powerful psychological renewal, disguised as a simple exercise in house-clearing. Read’s refusal to empty his boxes of rubbish did[…]

If Alex is right
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— 4 Sep 2003 mark sinker Comment

If Alex is right about the BBC’s faux-populist ploy (see post re Fame Academy three entries down), it’s certainly further evidence of its long-running self-vivisection project. In its early days it could rely on the same system as the res[…]

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