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Defiant Hot House Simmers Down a Notch

Ethan Switch - Tuesday, 17 February, 2004 - 19:48:09 - print it raw

Faced with the task of juggling over 20 non-existent personalities on their reality slide show, Channel 10 were quick to dash the hopes of many viewers with running yet another non-elimination episode of The Hot House.

Ratings as a void and the landscape, Sunday's episode primed ribbed steaks with a double elimination. Much like renegade builders, their definition of a single show was sliced in two and taken forth across into Monday. A complaisant farce by no stretch, sister couple Jacintha and Shivaune were the first to be laid off in a round of voting which included the excuse of "You wore black socks with white shoes. That just isn't right."

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Barbie Leaves Ken at the Party

Ethan Switch - Friday, 13 February, 2004 - 22:05:33 - print it raw

Barbie and Ken are no longer an item and the word has many in a frenzy. Living in a de facto relationship for the past 43 years the unmarried pair have weathered through many rumours on their relationship from Ken's sexuality to Barbie's philandering ways with the many suitors.

"Barbie and Ken have always been an extraordinary couple with so much on- and off-screen chemistry," said their business manager, Russell Arons, Vice President Marketing, Mattel. "In fact, they just finished wrapping their fourth movie together, Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper, which debuts this fall. And now they feel it's time to spend some quality time—apart."

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Super Bowl Pop Out Offers Back Door Entry

Ethan Switch - Thursday, 5 February, 2004 - 19:11:08 - print it raw

Flashed ad nauseam of blurred pixels of a near naked breast, the crowd dry wretch and spew spires of twisted morality. Passing severed limbs and coke filled noses through the FCC and through the half-time exposure of Super Bowl XXXVIII, the NFL scores reason to ease out of enduring another one of the ex-NSync members. "No one could be more disappointed than I that the NFL has cancelled my Halftime performance at the Pro Bowl this coming Sunday. I've told the NFL I understand the pressure that they are under since the Super Bowl," said JC Chasez in a release.

Taking note of Justin Timberlake's imaginative use of Janet Jackson's costume, Universal Pictures issued a press release noting Van Helsing's "imaginative use of fantasy characters such as Dracula, The Frankenstein Monster and The Wolf Man."

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One Nipple Ring to Rule Them All

Ethan Switch - Monday, 2 February, 2004 - 23:49:32 - print it raw

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's half-time performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII is running around naked with wild stories, thrown glares and trailing apologies. Core to the bare flesh is the intention of and total surprise of those involved.

An MTV news piece heralded "shocking moments" for the half-time entertainment. A shot which has led some to think that the rather startled singer popping out was in full knowledge despite later claims of not having rehearsed the scene previous to the performance.

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Elastic Shorts in the Western Riverside

Ethan Switch - Sunday, 18 January, 2004 - 20:03:22 - print it raw

Stringing together as much as numerically sound, 10x6. A jam of three old and three newly commissioned works to begin five dashed performances on Thursday, 22 January at the Parramatta Riverside Theatre.

Issued in the tensely thick postcards heralding its impending brief run in the light of shadows, a slogan, "stretching the boundaries between suburbs and centres" that seems to stand on its own. That then would indicate that the writers of the material knew not of the constant struggle. A struggle between weak councils looking to stem the reasons put forth for plans to merge one council after another into what would ultimately be a huge patch.

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Bruises, Beatings and Bloodhounds for Jackson's Jive

Ethan Switch - Monday, 5 January, 2004 - 19:28:04 - print it raw

"I think Mr. Jackson has seriously hurt his credibility," said Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Anderson in relation to the claims Michael Jackson made in a 60 Minutes interview amid subdued floodlights.

While under the CBS news program's extra banks of studio lamps shown widely, Jackson made occasional swipes at his brow. These following claims he made during the same session that the treatment he received from the arresting police was getting close to the Rodney King kind of cop treatment. Wild and ludicrous they thought, especially as audio tapes surfaced airing the cordiality greeted the Jackson it seemed like a bait could all still be used for the new revolution.

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