Entertainment

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.” Steve Martin

The Kardashian Paradox

by Henington • August 10, 2012

Work, Self-belief, not much sleep, oh and a wealthy background.

There is a weird phenomenon that I’ve only now been able to put a name to. It’s that strange logic that occurs in the happy heads of the rich and often famous, and increasingly American, who also came from…

by Doyle • December 9, 2011

The Kardashians now with an FDA health warning

I know we are living in the age of celebrity. I understand that people no longer want to be famous for being talented. No, being a famous singer, dancer, musician, actor or painter requires hard work, skill, determination, struggle, failure, pain and luck. There is an easier and far more lucrative route that can now be travelled and the Kardashians are ridding it all the way to the bank.

by Henington • December 1, 2011

There has been a lot written about why The Beatles broke up. Most of the penned ammunition unloaded on John Lennon’s sweet angelic muse Yoko Ono. But this is a historic injustice. The evidence for the implosion of the…

by Henington • September 27, 2011

Ok, what are we going to do about all these blogs? There are just too many. I am the first in line in respecting everyones right to express themselves, but come on now. What happened to private diaries? Put…

by Henington • September 5, 2011

“AUTHORITIES HUNT KILLER SHARK”. My immediate thought was – so will it be killed or what? Brought to trial? Suited up, provided a public defence lawyer, innocent until proven guilty and all that? Then I read “The latest…

by Henington • May 21, 2011

Good cheap wines. Straight from the vats. Labeless bottles filled and capped in front of you, with good Italian wines: Barbera, Gutturnio, Bonardo, Grignolino, Ortrugo, Verdicchio. Every week or so I walk around the corner, carrying 6 empty bottles…

by Doyle • March 8, 2011

Voltage Pictures in association with Summit Entertainment have today announced that production on “The Hurt Locker – Part 2” will soon commence at Sydney’s Fox Studios. The 2nd installment of The Hurt Locker will not revolve around the Army bomb-disposal…

by Henington • February 26, 2011

Comet Charlie Sheen whizzing past in the night sky

There is more slamming poerty and philosophical verbal prose in this interview than the first 6 weeks of a An Intro to Modern American Poetry community night course. Among ‘Vatican assasin warlocks’ and ‘Gnarly Gnarlingtons’ are such gems as “I wanted to watch Jaws on the ocean, in the dark… to embrace the fear”.

by Henington • February 14, 2011

Napoli robbery fuck-up These two clowns hot foot it into a pharmacy, grab the loot then split, but (as caught on CCTV) when they get to their scooter realise they’ve left the fucking keys inside. Don’t you just hate misplacing…

by Henington • February 12, 2011

You have to be careful of giving yourself to causes, mass rallies, mass opinion, mass anything, and indeed mass itself. But there are situations when there is not the luxurious alternative of inaction, of doing nothing and just letting it…