The Hollywood Reporter has a long, stunning investigative article out today called Animals Were Harmed. THR journalist Gary Baum presents compelling evidence that the American Humane Association, the nonprofit organisation charged with monitoring film and TV productions for animal abuse, has systematically hidden animal deaths in the interest of preserving friendly relations with powerful Hollywood producers
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Kiwis cutting it across the ditch
It is ironic, there’s no doubt.
Mexican president not a Belieber
Mexico’s president has denied a tweet by Justin Bieber saying the singer met with the president and his family prior to a show. It was the latest sour note in Bieber’s controversy-filled Latin American tour.
Album review: Tiden – Roedelius Schneider
TIDEN Roedelius Schneider (Yellow Eye) As someone who was obsessive about the electronic explorations of Amon Duull, Cluster, Faust, Tangerine Dream and Can, the Hamburg based German label The Bureau is paradise regained. It’s been re-issuing old classics as well as potentially new ones
Antarctic doco heads for festival
When Hawera Telecom technician Anthony Powell stepped off the plane on to Antarctica he was struck by the unbounded emptiness.
Is crowd-funded porn a step forward?
OPINION: In the world of modern sex education, online pornography is teacher, textbook, mentor and Cyprian.
The English language in the face of love.
One difference between me and Desiree Hartsock, this season’s bachelorette, is that I’m cursed with the inability to fall in love with someone who mistakes verbs for adjectives. Des, to her credit, is more forgiving
Dive-in cinema next big thing
Remember drive-in cinemas Well, get ready for a hot tub cinema. Watch a classic film in your togs in a spa pool, while waiters fetch drinks and food
Paula Deen to become comic book hero
Celebrity chef Paula Deen, who lost book deals, contracts and her television cooking show on The Food Network after she admitted using a racial slur, is set to be a comic book star of female empowerment, a publisher said. Bluewater Productions, which publishes a series of female celebrity-driven comic books, said the biography comic book called Female Force: Paula Deen will be released in October and include Deen’s fall from grace.
Rick Stein: Born to be mild
The voice is