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Re: Barrack OBama or John Mccain? What the fuck is McCain doing with a third of the vote? Even the Conservatives in Britain had said they were hoping for a Democrat because they thought all the Republicans were just a touch too far right wing for them. I'll grant that's a strong argument...

We're playing like shit, really.

Why are you so pleased by the rise in petrol prices? Given the worst affected in Sydney will be the lower classes from the Western Suburbs who work in the city who have to cope with the ridiculous toll prices or face the unreliable public transport or those from the country who need a car to...

Jimmy Carter?

Because he hasn't won it yet. With the extra delegates added with Michigan and Florida being included, the number of delegates needed to win has increased from 2025 to 2118, so he still hasn't reached the number yet. Tomorrow is the Puerto Rico vote, which she should win, but later in the...

10%, really. But, regardless, someone being Prime Minister for a long period of time doesn't mean they were any good (Joseph Lyons was Prime Minister for seven years, but is today at best ignored). And because our nation's in tatters, he's great? Very few Prime Ministers have left the country in...

Let's see, John Curtin and Ben Chifley are not worth mentioning? Gough Whitlam, though still spurs great debates, was hardly predictable. You get your head out of your arse. One should always acknowledge and understand what has come before. I think Rudd's been quite a disappointment. I think...

Are you saying the party that established the Royal Australian Navy, that constructed a transcontinental railway, that established old-age and disability pensions, maternity allowances and workers compensation, that established the Commonwealth Bank, that changed Australia's chief ally from the...

What can I say, I keep an eye out for these things? I'll let you take Patrick Swayze when he goes, if you like. As far as acting goes, I think he was brilliant in Woody Allen's Husband and Wives. Which, incidentally, would probably be my favourite post-1990 Woody Allen film.

Came as a bit of a shock to me - I wasn't aware he had cancer, and also had thought he was a bit younger than that. He was a pretty good director. Hasn't really reached the same heights since the awful Out of Africa, but he had a pretty good run through the late 60s-early 80s. They Shoot...

Wha?

Re: Australian Politics Chatter Thread Now Morris Iemma is officially the country's worst Premier. New South Welshmen rejoice!

I went in a group of three, and was the only one to come out of it loving it. From the fridge saving the day to the three-way car fight scene to the surprising ending, I found it ridiculously entertaining. No doubt a lot of it was ludicrous, but given it had moved setting from the 1930s to...

Re: Hillary Clinton, GTFO Johnson was twice the president Kennedy was. Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act - no doubt Vietnam was a giant cock-up, but don't forget that Kennedy was the one who began sending troops there. Plus Truman was behind the disaster that was Korea, yet nobody's...

Good call on Chabrol. Fassbinder, too, though be glad to hear Fear Eats the Soul is being released on DVD here. I dunno if I'd call Bergman well covered - perhaps compared to others, but when you consider his body of work, it's a pretty sparse collection (especially in comparison to Godard or...

The retrospection on Deborah Kerr of all people is a bit of a disappointment. I like her well enough, but after doing Huston and Melville the previous couple of years, it's a bit of a letdown. Sure, she just died and all, but still they couldn't have done Bergman or Antonioni or something...

Sex.

I likewise have heard that stated, and concur. I really wish everyone would get off this guy's case, he just gave an opinion, a pretty justifiable one at that. You might think it somewhat contentious, but you can't deny that there is some level of creedence to the argument for Tupac being the...

Yeah, that Franklin Roosevelt was a shocker. And thank God we were spared that Robert Kennedy too.

I work in the cinema industry, but alas am not in the clairvoyancy industry, so am not privy to information regarding the financial earnings of the films coming out this year in comparison to previous years. I can tell you what days people are more likely to come to the cinema, too. Tuesdays...