Once more to the semi-final crystal ball gazing my friends, once more! (I am sure, totally sure, that Shakespeare will not mind me paraphrasing one of his more famous quotes in the service of Eurovision.) Semi-final 2 looms and with it the prospect of 17 more countries doing everything in Continue Reading
The glorious new trailer for “Arrested Development”
Can we ever have too much of the Bluths? Michael Bluth (Jason Batemen) may answer with a hearty “YES!” since he appears to have moved to Phoenix to escape his family, as he promised to do right throughout the show’s original three season run. Let’s hope he figures out Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: week 6 – Norway, Albania, Georgia, Switzerland, Romania
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
What happens to the winners when the Eurovision glory fades?
It doesn’t matter what kind of competition it is. When you are standing high atop the winner’s dais, with those you have vanquished standing nearby or possibly seated right in front of you, it is hard not to come over all Leonard di Caprio in Titanic and feel like Continue Reading
It’s the end of the show as I know it: My long overdue thoughts on the end of “Fringe”
The end of Fringe in January this year with the almost perfectly-executed double episodes “Liberty” and “Enemy of the State” was, as it is for any series I have grown to love, a gut-wrenchingly sad moment for me. Leavened somewhat by the almost flawless way that the show’s producers Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: semi finals 1 predictions
It’s only hours, mere hours my friends, till the first semi-final takes places in Malmö, Sweden, and 16 countries battle it out in song – of course this being The Eurovision Song Contest, all the battling will be done in the most loving, life-affirming way possible with an angst-ridden Continue Reading
Judging a book by its cover #2: “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”
The object of this new series, which I am starting in conjunction with my wonderful friend, Elle, who blogs at Inkproductions.org (well-written, entertaining and thoughtful articles on all things writing and blogging-oriented) is to grab a long-neglected unread book off our shelves, speculate on what we think the book’s about based Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: Big 6 reviewed – UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Sweden
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is Continue Reading
Movie review: “Russendisko” (German Festival of Films, Sydney)
Ah, the promise of the new frontier. It has drawn people like moth to a flame throughout the history of humanity, with the downtrodden and beleaguered, the lost and the merely curious, pulling up sticks and heading for the bright lights of whatever promised land happened to be in Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Girl Most Likely”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, once a promising young New York playwright whose promise has fizzled, thanks to a crisis of confidence. Heavily in denial about being dumped by her society boyfriend, Imogene uses her skill for drama to stage an elaborate fake suicide as an appeal Continue Reading