What’s all this then, we’ll have no trouble here. The casting agent involved in yesterday’s Hobbit ‘skingate’ scandal has been terminated from the job, according to a report in Stuff: …The agent, an independent contractor, had also placed a newspaper ad saying female hobbit extras should have “light skin tones”. A spokesman for Jackson’s Wingnut…
The Age is this morning is reporting on a race row that has broken out in New Zealand over a casting call for hobbits, of all things. British woman, Naz Humhpreys, a social policy researcher on a working holiday in NZ and who is of Pakistani descent, attended a Hobbit casting call for the forthcoming…
A new episode has been to the Beehave Beehive series of videos on YouTube. A while ago we blogged about Steve and Angel’s campaign to draw attention to the lack of government control in private schools, since then the couple have been busy working away on a series of satirical political programmes. We discovered that…
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The Sydney Morning Herald published today a startling interview with historian Gerry Morris, who grew up in a Greymouth mining family and who lost his grandfather in a mining accident near Greymouth in 1940. (For more about Mr Morris’ background read the article here.) Mr Morris was critical of the way the in which the…
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