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Karl Urban is strapping on a stethoscope to play Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the Starship's Enterprise's medical officer, in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" feature for Paramount.
This is almost as exciting as when Martin Henderson played Britney's boyfriend in the "Toxic" video.
I hope ur not being sarcastic Robyn! :-)
This could be a big break for Karl, if the part is reasonable. And if not, well there's the international GeekCon circuit to pay his rent/Herne Bay mortgage for the next 15 years.
And let's not forget that Martin almost played Spiderman (allegedly) and almost played the Brad Pitt character in the TV version of Mr & Mrs Smith (but the pilot wasn't picked up).
It can take years of hard work to get that 'lucky break' ...
BTW - how do you strap on a stethoscope? I've seen them hanging round necks, and plugged into the ears, but never strapped. Maybe the straps are for zero gravity conditions?
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Any chance we can get the PAS Women's XV in here to kill this thread, or do ppl still believe there's life left (ie anything new) in it?
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Edith Piaf would wipe the floor with every Tranny from here to Oxford Street and back without spilling her drink.
F@#k! It's gonna be an interesting Halloween if Edith has risen from the dead!
(Yes, I know you know she's dead. But the thought of a zombiefied Piaf trolling K rd is too delicious) -
Kudos (overdue) to One News who didn't just roll over and play nice when one of their bigger advertisers (Noel Leeming) employed Erin Brokovich to shill their products.
Unfortunately the NZ Herald weren't so smart and this morning gave front page coverage to this (IMHO) obvious PR beat-up: Brockovich forces NZ firm to drop 'sexist' ad
As the Herald themselves point out:
Brockovich was outraged by a Bond and Bond advertisement that said: "Government says fridges are better younger. Just like women really."
The 47-year-old environmental advocate, whose story inspired the hit movie Erin Brockovich, is fronting a TV advertising campaign for Bond & Bond's sister company Noel Leeming. The firms are both owned by the Noel Leeming Group.
Gee, what better way to establish Brockovich's "credentials" as an "independent" consumer advocate than have her demand an ad be withdrawn? Nevermind that (to quote the Herald again)
Noel Leeming Group chief executive Andrew Dutkiewicz said ... [the advertisement] was designed to run only once.
So, since the Herald had all the facts, why did they bother to run it on their front page? Was it a beat up to drive web traffic on their own site? Your Views
Whatever. Being on the front page of the Herald of course meant Talkback Radio had to cover the story, asking listeners what they thought. And they took the bait. Thankfully this afternoon Cameron Brewer came to the rescue (eh?) and explained all to those lacking in brain cells:[he] says it is public relations at its best. He says it is all about selling fridges over Labour weekend, nothing more.
Let's hope the NZ Herald can join the dots next time ... or add Advertorial to the top of these types of stories in future.
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bumper stickers
My friend sent me some genuine Vote Bush/Cheney 04 bumber stickers. I wanted to put them on my car but I doubted anyone here would have got the joke.
And I didn't want my car kicked in ...
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heh heh .... I thought the very same thing Stephen!
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It smelled like vomit. No, really. It smelled like vomit. It tasted like …
That would be the Gurana. Why put Gurana in an alcoholic drink? Because by law you can't put caffeine in, because you're not allowed to keep drunks awake. When they pass out they can't be kept awake by unscrupulous bar owners so they can sell more alcohol.
Well, that used to be the law -- but I saw a street poster recently promoting some bottled alcapop that expressly trumpeted it was alcohol and caffiene!! So maybe the law has changed.
Allied Liquour released a cola based alcapop With Gurana!! in the 90s. They wanted to put caffiene in (lots!) so that you would get a rush (it was 'for the club crowd') but the law wouldn't allow it. So they put Gurana in instead. It was called XLR8 and It tasted like … VOMIT! -
But mostly, NZ On Air has posted We're All in This Together: Public Broadcasting in the Digital Age, a discussion paper I wrote with the assistance of Andrew Dubber. It's big -- 17,000 words in a 235KB PDF -- and it took a long time to finish, but I'm quite pleased with it.
It's forty pages people!
Run, run away now ... FORTY PAGES!! -
__what Kyle Matthews said on Page 15__
Good post Kyle! I'm not sure if it's the definition of anarchy but what do you do when you've done all the 'legitimate' things 'allowed' under societal rules of reasonable protest, and yet nothing changes?
We wrote letters, we formed a lobby group, we held a rally, we had a march, and still no change ... oh, well we gave it a go. Maybe I'll start jogging when it gets warmer.
I don't agree with the idea of violent protest/action because of the danger of the innocent being caught up in it. It's a slippery slope, especially when definitions of who is innocent vary according to the political beliefs of the protestor.
The weird thing is that many protestors share a similar trait with the corporates/politicians they despise: "I know I'm right and that this is the right course of action to take" -
one man's Thug is another man's Freedom Fighter ...