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Only in France
I went onto Amazon’s French site to source a link for the DVD of Bertrand Tavernier’s brilliant police thriller L.627 for inclusion in a forthcoming post, and here’s one of the books that came up amongst the site’s featured home-page recommendations. No, it wasn’t a recommendation based on my past purchases. I wasn’t even logged…
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Birt Acres, Pioneer of the Cinema
I’m doing some story research (well, that’s what I call the hours spent wilfing around the internet) into the early cinema pioneers. One of them is American-born British resident Birt Acres. Acres was an engineer, photographer, designer of the Birtac amateur camera, and plenty more besides. I was immediately put in mind of Alan Burt…
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At Least it’s not the Show’s Fault
“Idol: The Musical” shuts down after just one performanceThe producer of the Off-Broadway production, which opened on Sunday night, blamed a lack of advance ticket sales, a lack of positive feedback from audience members and critics and a lack of sustainable financial resources. See? It’s never the obvious reason. (Source: TVTattle).
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T*ts, Bangs, and Tenure
I’ve a friend who’s a psychology PhD, struggling to establish herself on the academic ladder. She’s been told that in order to keep her job she has to get two papers published in a recognised journal. I’d always thought that publication in learned journals was a way for academics add to their income. Not so,…
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First Test Posting
Always said I’d never start a blog. That if I did I’d risk committing career suicide on a weekly basis. Well, goodbye, cruel world.
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
