Column - The shame of Australia
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
BAZ Luhrmann’s first big mistake was to get so full of himself that…
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AUSTRALIA
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Drama, actionadventure PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS David Gulpilil: King George, an Aboriginal shaman Brandon Walters: his 11-year-old grandson Nullah Nicole Kidman: British aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley...
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Jack Thompson Among Six Florida Attorneys Disbarred
North Country Gazette (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
TALLAHASSEE—Controversial Coral Gables attorney John (Jack) Bruce Thompson is among the 23 attorneys who have been disciplined by the Florida Supreme Court. Thompson, who has crusaded against pornography and violence in video games has been permanently disbarred without leave to apply for readmission, effective 30 days from a Sept. 25 court order. He was admitted [...]
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Will the RNC Push for 'Closed' Presidential Primaries? - HUMAN EVENTS
Another Pundit (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Will the RNC Push for 'Closed' Presidential Primaries? - HUMAN EVENTS BY: JACK THOMPSON Dr. Marni Ezra, who teaches political science at Maryland’s Hood College, has proven and written that “closed primaries” -- ones in which only a party’s registered Republicans or Democrats are allowed to vote in their respective primaries -- produce winners more true to the ideology of their respective bases. Closed...
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Past And Future
Notes From D. R. (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
David Frum on President Bush’s legacy; William Kristol on the Mumbai terrorist attacks. UPDATE: More from Jack Thompson and Jed Babbin.
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Florida A.G. Once Fretted About Wiimote, Now on ESRB Bandwagon
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
When gamers last heard from Bill McCollum, the Florida Attorney General was fretting that the motion-controlled Wii version of Manhunt 2 would have a generation of kids practicing to be killers. As GamePolitics reported in June of 2007, McCollum apparently got that idea from Jack Thompson . These days, McCollum is, like many political colleagues in other states, urging parents to follow ESRB content...
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Review: "Australia"
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Seen on: November 26, 2008 The players: Director: Baz Luhrmann, Writers: Stuart Beattie, Richard Flanagan, Ronald Harwood, Baz Luhrmann, Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson Facts of interest: It took nine months to shoot "Australia." The plot: Nicole Kidman stars as an English aristocrat who travels to Australia to drive her inherited cattle to the town of Darwin....
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German activist calls Electronic Arts a pig, EA fires back
QJ.NET (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Who needs Jack Thompson when you have entertainment like this? The story starts at an anti-violence conference in Munich last week, when Regina Pfeiffer referred to Electronic Arts as "that pig of a company. Pfeiffer is the sister of Christian Pfeiffer, outspoken critic of violent video games and head of Lower Saxony's Criminological Research Institute. According to reports, Ms. Pfeiffer said her...
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EA does not like being called a pig, demands apology
Super Tech News / Published News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Electronic Arts, despite weathering all sorts of criticism over the years, apparently has a sensitive side. German game hater Regina Pfeif 7 Vote(s)
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Review: "Australia"
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Seen on: November 26, 2008 The players: Director: Baz Luhrmann, Writers: Stuart Beattie, Richard Flanagan, Ronald Harwood, Baz Luhrmann, Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown,...
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FSR’s Weekly Report Card for 11.26.08
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
AUSTRALIA Studio: 20th Century Fox Rated: PG-13 for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief strong language. Starring: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, David Ngoombujarra, and Brandon Walters Directed by: Baz Luhrmann What it’s about: A lot of things... A cattle drive across Australia. A romance between ...
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Lavish 'Australia' falls short of memorable
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Movie review: Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" is a mixed bag of starkly beautiful scenery, rowdy down under charm and stale movie cliches.
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Freeman Doppelganger Defends CERN from Headcrabs
DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
The closest real-life equivalent to Half-Life’s Black Mesa facility may be CERN, and that connection became even stronger when a photo of the Large Hadron Collider showed a Gordon Freeman look-alike standing by it. Alarmed gamers at Reddit took the initiative of contacting CERN and the scientist in particular, giving him a wrecking bar, headcrab hat [...]
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Australia
In Theaters This Week (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown
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Mike Pence and Jack Thompson: Idiots of a Feather
Blue Indiana - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
From Craig's diaries: More Pence Nonsense Congressman Mike Pence is obsessed with the latest boogieman concocted in the bowels of the conservative movement, the reinstatement of "The Fairness Doctrine." Thursday, Pence's blog linked to an article by Jack Thompson, warning of the doctrine's reinforcement. Well, besides the inherent hypocricy of a known advocate of censorship whining about how the Fairness...
