
A look at Lee (R)
As model turned topline war photographer Lee Miller, Kate Winslet captures Lee’s confrontational, tough outer skin mixed with her magnetism as a former high fashion model perfectly.
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A look at Lee (R)
As model turned topline war photographer Lee Miller, Kate Winslet captures Lee’s confrontational, tough outer skin mixed with her magnetism as a former high fashion model perfectly.
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If you were alive in the 50s you remember where you were when Betty Cuthbert won the 100/200 sprint double at the Melbourne Olympics. Similarly for the 60s when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and the 70s when Mohammed Ali beat George Foreman in Zaire to reclaim his world heavyweight boxing crown. In the 80’s ??? – maybe you don’t remember anything let alone where you were but if you lived through the 90s you would remember the exact time and place you were when you saw the first episode of Twin Peaks. It changed the relationship between cinema and TV forever, but more importantly it would change your perspective on “normality” and change the way you view the motivation of others and the imbalance in how society values achievement over mythology.
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With the excitement of the trade period over maybe it’s time to take one last look back at 2024. Sorry, I started this soon after the season (for Freo) ended but art exhibitions, medals and travel have got in the way. Delistings have happened and some suggestions (eg Corbett have been followed through – hint hint Sebit). But anyway, here we go with this completed in Dartmouth Nova Scotia, just over the water from Halifax.
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If Blair Bell hadn’t got the ball, realised he had space and kicked a goal with seconds to go in the WAFL first semi final Peel would have been BUNDLED OUT and the reason clear to all. The Fremantle-listed players in the Peel team had clocked out anyway, would rather be on holidays, don’t really care. And they’re no good anyway.
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Remember the days when Kerry Packer had revolutionised cricket? One day cricket had swept the globe and Benson and Hedges cigarettes sponsored the cricket without a hint of protest.
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I took my camera to Leederville Oval for the WAFL round eight East Perth–Subiaco game. Just a bit of an experiment with my Olympus OMD that is, in my unskilled hands at least, a but clunky for live sport action.
There were issues
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Watching the derby while still in a slight general anaesthetic fog was not a recommended or reliable recovery step.
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Nothing ever happens in Perth on Tuesdays nights. Perth’s Tuesday ennui is legendary. Even in Tasmania they tell touring bands “you won’t get them (Perth) to mosh on a Tuesday.”
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Steve Marsh launched my book Gravel Rash: 100 Years of Goldfields Football at the Orient Hotel in Fremantle in 1996.
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Every scoreboard tells a story
With the first dog chosen in the AFL Canine Draft
escape to the Vasse idyll