Archive for November, 2007

Goodbye to Michael Parkinson

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

The cheeky northern TV chat show presenter Michael Parkinson is hanging up his microphone after a long career interviewing just about everyone who matters in politics and showbiz. He seems to have been on TV for ever, I certainly can't remember a time when he wasn't laughing his head off at ...

English football - FA board must go

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Well this has been a crisis waiting to happen, and finally Steve McClaren has been sacked as England football manager. The FA board are too old, and incompetent. This won't worry the girls at all, who wonder why guys get so upset when their national team gets beaten. It just means ...

Guns in movies making crime worse

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

You've seen all the recent Hollywood films, guns everywhere, bang bang bang all over the place, actors falling to the floor in mock death. Teenagers from rough areas copy what they see in the movies, they have no intellect to disseminate good from bad, and what do we get, the impression ...

Watch The Illusionist

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

A lovely film, The Illusionist, loosely based on the life of Eisenheim the magician. Carefully thought out with good photography. How nice not to see so many extreme closeups of actors faces including nostril hair, do most film producers and directors not realise that most people these days have quite large ...

Britpop on the decline - why?

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Once a year the most embarrassing show on TV is aired. The eurovision song contest in all its glory gets an outing, hosted by some unlucky european country on which the most absymal music is inflicted. The worst part is when the UK entry begins its song. For some unknown reason it's ...

Ronan Keating rejoins Boyzone

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

The Golden boys of Boyzone, who haven't played a gig in years are reuniting to play the O2 arena in London along with several other dates culminating in a performance in Glasgow Scotland. Whereas they played to screaming teens in their earlier incarnation, Boyzone are likely to play to mums and dads, maybe ...

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