Posted in Politics, Rant, Stage on Nov 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I am probably the most politically-correct person I know.
For example, I once spent hours agonising over a brief synopsis for The Singing Ringing Tree to ensure that I correctly distinguished between dwarfs and dwarves.
(for your information, the former are small humans; the latter, fantasy creatures. When we speak of being ‘plagued by evil dwarves’ we […]
Posted in Gay and Lesbian, Interview, Politics, Reviews on Jun 5th, 2007 No Comments »
When I first heard about Hedwig and the Angry inch (2001), John Cameron Mitchell’s first feature film, I thought it sounded awful.
The tale of an East German boy who has a botched sex change (hence the Angry Inch…) so he can marry an American soldier and elope to the West, where he tries to make […]
Posted in Documentary, Politics on May 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve had great affection for Michael Moore since I first saw his 1994 series, TV Nation. Produced by the BBC, it was funny, political, and it featured Crackers, the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken (a man in a giant chicken costume wearing a cape).
(”He can’t come in,” said the security guard at one corporate HQ, eyeing Crackers […]