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And yes, some NZ media continue to refer to her as Pumpkin when both her Chinese and English name are already well known.
Do you think the search in Portugal/Europe for Madeleine McCann might go better if the media kept calling her Popsy?
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I think it's bleeding obvious why she was she nicknamed "Pumpkin," and can't really work out why it was (or is) an issue.
So if she was dressed in Nike they would have called her Nike? I'm sorry but it's all just a little too Disney (circa 1978) for me. But it could have been worse, at least they didn't call her Lotus Blossom.
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Methinks RB has revealed just a little too much about himself here. A little too quick with those links methinks, possibly sitting right there on his 'Favourites', eh? Eh?
As I posted elsewhere the other day, I just want a Newsreader, not a NILF. But yes, she is attractive -- and if I could speak/understand French I'd be able to tell if she could actually read the news as well!!
During my extended sojourn in Italy & France last year I saw first hand how many very attractive young women were fronting TV shows -- often paired with much older men. The men ranged from 'silver foxes' to 'hoary old goats'.
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Qian Xun — whom authorities nicknamed Pumpkin after the Pumpkin Patch brand of clothing she was wearing when she was found — is in the care of a foster family in Melbourne.
Yes, I can't help wondering if they would have given her that nickname if she was a stranded white girl. But anyway .... the nickname is still being used in OZ because of their Family Court rules. She is now "in care" and can't be identified by name.
On TV1's midday report the reporter shared with us __(she'd been down to 'the Chinese Radio Station' that morning - I presume there's only one chinese radio station) __that the Chinese community were horrorfied by this incident, since family are very important in Chinese culture. Hopefully in the 6pm bulletin she will expand on this, perhaps adding: "Unlike the Scottish, who are known to sell their bairns for the price of a glass of whiskey"
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Last week's Madeleine Sami episode of OR wasn't exactly gritty realism, but it was bloody hysterical. And are you really saying that Cheryl West isn't an iconic character?
Well, the Sami ep had a chuckle or two but it wasn't sidesplitting. Not that I'm expecting that. I suppose I'm looking for a more wry, dry humour (Ricky Gervais) than the cheap laughs in OT. You can see their 'gags' coming a mile off.
I loved the first series of OT but in watching them back-to-back you really start to spot the holes. That was my point (obviously poorly made). Contrast the characters in OT with FOT Conchords ... equally as over the top but somehow more enjoyable.Maybe it's just me. I recall my first viewing of Once Were Warriors and thinking 'this is arse' when we saw the heavily moko'ed (stylised) gang members working out in their homemade gym - all engine blocks and #8 wire.
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If two people wrote letters to the editor (or, I think in this case, one person wrote a letter to the editor, and another person wrote a letter quoting the first), then it wouldn't be news.
Three words:
Slow
News
Day
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okay, here's something you can comment on/reply to ...
After the Sopranos marathon (and another 4 hr sleep) I then embarked on an OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE marathon, watching the last 12 eps back to back. And dare I say ...
... the show does not stack up as any great televisual art. The writing is cliche and the characters are both stereotypical and stereotypically acted. Is it comedy or is it drama? Dramedy? Puh-lease! The funniest bit was seeing a gang member bawling his eyes out in the pub. Yeah, right.
The writers are clearly delivering what they think the public will accept (ie rough as guts characters, on the wrong side of the law but still heart-of-gold) but maybe they should have set the show in the 80s or 70s. These days it's a lot grimmer than OT pretends to reveal.
And when in doubt, throw in yet another sex scene. Damn them white trash sure love to fuck!
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So far, 9 hasn't completely fucked around with the scheduling of the Sopranos but it's only been 3 episodes so there's time.
Sheesh, and I thought we got it late?!
Speaking of, I watched the entire series at the weekend (I'd been saving them up on HDDDVR so I could watch them back-to-back)(**Spoiler alert Paul! click away now!!**) and can't help but give my 2¢ worth on the ending -- even tho' everyone else has already, and its a dead topic. (One I'm not trying to resurrect, I'm just venting)
In watching all the episodes back-to back (ok, I did break for a 3hr sleep at 2am) you really get a better sense of flow/continuity that you do watching one hour a week. Patterns/threads emerge and are much more obvious.
I can't say definitively that Tony gets wacked at the end but I think in all likelihood he does. But that creator David Chase then decided not to go with the 'easy' or 'desired' finish, so instead chose to cut to black.
In the diner are 3 cub scouts, all wearing B&W caps, sitting in a booth behind the Soprano family. They're the same type of caps the hitmen (working for Phil in previous eps) wore when they wacked the rest of Tony's crew (and others). Yeah, Phil was already dead but that doesn't mean the hit on Tony wasn't continued. Tony had significant gambling debts and wasn't making as much money for the family as he was previously. So I can imagine that those caps could have just as easily popped up behind Tony, but this time its the hitmen, not the cub scouts (who are still in their booth) and shot Tony. Filmakers love pulling tricks like that.
The flipside is that Crane just stopped typing the script and finished with 'The End'. The chorus of that song by Journey was "it goes on and on and on" and Crane was possibly tired of this series he didn't intend to run so long (HBO kept throwing bigger money at him for each new series). Witness the therapy sessions with both Tony and his son Anthony where both whine about what empty hopeless lives they lead. This is capped off by Tony's therapist finally realising that it's been 7 years of talk therapy without any result. Followed by the study which claims psychopaths are only emboldened/validated by such treatment, not 'cured'. This is possibly Crane's melancholy that after all these years he's just glamourised the Mafia, rather than 'shining a light on their evil deeds'.
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Having more older people on telly is a superb idea...
yeah, bring back JUDY BAILEY!!
I just want the news read, not a NILF ...I wholeheartedly agree. As an "expert" whose phone number is in a few contacts lists, I've had many camera crews around over the years
Phew, so it is true! The number of times they've rung me (3) to book for me for the 7 o'clock show, only to have them ring back and say "Ah, thanks but we're going with Russell Brown now ..." (so of course at 7pm I walk my dog, as a matter of principle).
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