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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Dustin Hoffman’

The Media vs. the Mid-Summer Doldrums

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Features
It isn’t Alien vs. Predator, but it’s close. You thought that this summer’s blockbuster was Batman? Hancock? Kung Fu Panda? Nope. This summer the talking media heads have had little real work, so making it up as they go along seems the way to go.
We’ve seen befuddled AARP poster child John McCain’s repeated flip-flops, dumb [...]


Credit Where Due

By Denis Campbell • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Media
Having lived in Malibu where credit watching is an art form and smatterings of applause break out when groups of two or more gather to recognise/wait for a friend’s name to scroll by, I was pleased to see the BBC listen to its viewer complaints for squeezing and speeding up movie end credits into a [...]