He was just 19 when he met Tommy Wiseau, and little could Greg Sestero have guessed what an impact each would have on the other. The Room would loom over both of them for years, and now The Disaster Artist breathes fresh life into one of the most-loved bad films ever made.
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On ABC TV tonight and next Sunday night is the terrific miniseries Friday on My Mind, about the rise of The Easybeats from loathed immigrants to loved exports. There's a moral there, I'm sure.
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What do you give a guy who's just won the ratings? How about the sack. I sat down to lunch with Lehmo, who this week was dumped (along with co-host Jo Stanley) from the breakfast radio slot on Gold104.3 despite finishing top in their slot. Thanks for nothing, guys.
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Join Andrew Young and Karl Quinn writer as they say YES to all things joyous on a fresh ep of their weekly podcast about politics and culture, and join them as they go back to the Pop-up Globe, because they liked it so much the first time they just couldn't stay away. https://itunes.apple.com/…/podcast/yes-yes-yes/id1256873572… And join the group over here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theclapperspodcast/…
Hats off to Jose Maria Cabral, the young filmmaker from the Dominican Republic who spent the best part of a year inside one of the world's worst prisons to research and shoot his remarkable movie Woodpeckers (aka Carpinteros). It's screening at the Cine Latino Film Festival in all the state capitals. Catch it if you can.
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First look at Romper Stomper, the six-part miniseries that serves as a belated sequel to the 1992 film.
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I love this show! The very funny Australian comedy No Activity has been remade in America, and the series developed by Patrick Brammall and Trent O'Donnell has now got the Will Ferrell seal of approval. It didn't need it, but hey, why argue?
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Politics, painting, Pauline Hanson: what don't those chaps from The Clappers have an opinion about? Hear them expound on Loving Vincent, the fascinating and murky battle between the Australian Labor Party and the Victorian Greens in the Northcote by-election, and David Marr's latest Quarterly Essay.
https://itunes.apple.com/…/…/different-strokes/id1256873572… and https://omny.fm/shows/theclappers/different-strokes
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Some thoughts on Michelle Guthrie's 'massive' restructure of the ABC. In short, it sounds sensible, but it does nothing to address the key challenges to its independence.
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Yes, but will the cast include an extremist? The question SBS Australia programmer Marshall Heald really didn't enjoy...
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This is pretty big, I think. ABC chairman Justin Milne (who has previously worked at MSN and NBN Australia) reveals the broadcaster will make a major move into streaming from early next year. 'If it's fair to say big data now has control of the levers within the national broadcaster, it's also fair to say that we are at last starting to see where they are steering it.'
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Have you seen The Letdown on ABC TV? It's seriously funny, and brings back so many memories of what it was like to be a parent for the first time (in a word, terrifying).
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On The Clappers podcast, Andrew Young and I sometimes get serious and rather often get frivolous. I'm not sure which camp you'd stick our discussion of the new Thor movie and its impact on the local production sector (more on that in the story below), but I'm pretty clear on where our chat about weddings belongs. I hope you have as much fun listening to this as we did recording it.
The episode is here: https://itunes.apple.com/…/hooray-for-aussiew…/id1256873572… and here: https://omny.fm/shows/theclappers/hooray-for-aussiewood
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Did you watch The Crown on Netflix? The trailer has just dropped for season 2, and it looks terrific. Check it here.
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Australian film has had a friend in The Weinstein Company in the past. But it's just possible a couple of upcoming titles could inadvertently find themselves caught in the crosshairs of the ongoing Hollywood sex scandal.
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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is reportedly in talks to turn The Lord of the Rings Trilogy into a TV series. Given he used his clout to score a cameo in the most recent Star Trek film, I'd be putting good money on him cropping up with a pair of big furry feet on if this deal comes off.
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