Gary Oldman’s wonderful, but only because you know he’s not being Gary Oldman’s usual screen self. Instead he just potters about with a big pair of glasses on.
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He has become, at least to outward appearances, a man more ordinary.
Australia Day 2012 may well be the moment when the proposed changes to the Australian Constitution, to grant special favours to people of Aboriginal descent, unravelled.
The Perth public high school where I teach last year provided all year nine and ten students with laptop computers. The scheme was a fiasco from the outset.
Marcia Langton: “Patrick McCauley, speaking for the old Quadrant club of white men who lunch…”
This really is serious news: given the state of the rest of the economy, we may be looking at a Wiggles-led recovery in 2012.
Sam Sorbo: “The filmmakers, seemingly confused about Thatcher’s actual, incredible successes, focus on her dementia and femininity while categorically denying her capability.”
Nothing better brings an understanding of one’s humanity and its imperfections than the necessity to look after one’s grandkids.
Miranda Devine: “The last movie I walked out of was a Reservoir Dogs video, during the dental torture scene. But I was pregnant at the time and squeamish. This time it was Iron Lady.”
Tim Blair: ‘Like most normal people, when I think of modern performance art I immediately want the world to end.’
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