Julian, Man Up!
As Tim Minchin has impressed with his witty ditty, exhorting Cardinal Pell to fly back from the Vatican to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, perhaps he could now set this one to music? It concerns another prominent figure who refuses to break from cover..
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Not dead yet
Channel 7 followed up its two-part drama Molly (reviewed here) with a short, oddly premature obituary-feel documentary about Ian “Molly” Meldrum the following week. Molly’s brother Brian tells us that Molly loved music from day one. He moved in with Ronnie Burns’ family when his just wouldn’t do, he was a journalist at GO SET magazine, then on the television music shows The go Show, Kommotion (1966). Uptight (1968) and Happening 1971. Again, like Vivienne Westwood, Ian Meldrum was a young person with nothing but passion and a lot of nerve who blazed a trail through a wood that no-one…
Continue Reading →Random Killer Quotes
From diverse film sources: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” [Apocalypse Now] The lass at the publishing company wants to know how obsessive-compulsive misanthropist Jack Nicholson creates his female characters, to which he replies: “I think of a man. And then I take away reason, and accountability.” [As Good As it Gets] “Go sell crazy somewhere else. We’re all stocked-up here.” [As Good As it Gets] “Sometimes nothin’ is a real cool hand.” [Cool Hand Luke] “You’ve got to ask yourself a question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” [Dirty Harry] Parting note from a consummate con-artist:…
Continue Reading →12 Killer Quotes – The Godfather Saga
A colleague and friend suggested a bunch of lines from The Godfather saga: [Part I] Don Corleone to Buonasera: “You found Paradise in America, you had a good trade, made a good living, police protected you and there were courts of law. You didn’t need a friend like me.” Michael Corleone to Kay Adams: “My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.” Kay: “What was that?” Michael: “Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.” “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” Don…
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