Keywords: Celebrity Death
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 June 2009
11 Comments
Satire needs to be bold. It risks causing
offence in order to achieve its
purpose. It seems like
strange behaviour to want to see how far The Chaser will go, then become upset
when they are deemed to have gone 'too far'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sarah Kanowski
- 16 April 2009
The narrator of Philip Roth's novella The Dying Animal is self-indulgent, narcissistic, and driven by the urge to sexually conquer. The film Elegy transposes Roth's log of masculine decline into a mournful lament for the dead.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jessica Frawley
- 02 March 2009
8 Comments
Paintings that once would have once sparked controversy now adorn biscuit tins, umbrellas, notebooks and a range of
other merchandise. We have killed the controversy and challenges faced in the past by branding it to death.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 February 2009
13 Comments
The world of pop music is dominated by prettiness and skin-deep perfection. In that context, Cohen's greatness is not instantly discernable. Lately a Buddhist, he has spent his latter years in study of religion — 'But cheerfulness keeps breaking through.'
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
31 Comments
We should feel deep regret when the bullets pierce the hearts of the Bali Bombers. Neither just nor useful, the death penalty is immoral. Prime Minister Rudd is well positioned to contribute to its abolition.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
9 Comments
'For me, talk of the death penalty evoked the young, frightened faces of
Scott and Emmanuel, as well as the laughing, haughty faces of Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.' Full text from Frank Brennan's session on 'Killing People for Killing People', Ubud Writers Festival, 17 October 2008.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 March 2008
Tough times call for tough measures — the McGarvie women comprise a
single-parent family in a male-dominated society, so you can hardly
blame them for making a living the best way they can. Houdini is all charm and showmanship, with hidden depths and dark secrets.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 October 2007
11 Comments
The Chaser's 'Eulogy' was less about the celebrities whose deaths it celebrated, than it was about public perceptions of those celebrities. The desire to puncture the 'cult of celebrity' is a major plank in the Chaser's War.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Daniel Donahoo
- 18 May 2007
7 Comments
We can only imagine the shelves of an online bookshop to be dustless. But this does not preclude the very real presence of the spirit of a close relative who died two decades before the Internet took hold.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 April 2007
16 Comments
It is too early to explore the reasons for and the justice of the Vatican criticism of Jon Sobrino’s theology. But such judgments also affect human lives. So it may be useful to set this event in the context of the relationship between the Basque born theologian and the El Salvador to which he has committed his working life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 February 2007
Four lacklustere sequels and countless parodies and rip-offs have marred Rocky's reputation. Arriving 17 years after the previous incarnation, the sixth and final installment represents much more than a simple return to form.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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