Its got the bitchy blonde lady from love my way in it!

sweet

Simon Lyndon as Jack Thompson.

I can't beleive the abc's bumping the monday night lineup for this. what will the papers talk about on tuesday.

Asher Keddie lIves up my way and has been in to my shop on several occasions. The End.

i am really looking forward to this. i am going to put on my best pyjamas.

hang on is it on tonight or tomorrow or both? i don't have a tv guide.

it's on tonight at 20:30. and one blurb for it reads: The birth of Cleo - in 1972 two ambitious, young upstarts, Ita Butterose and Kerry Packer, created CLEO, a fresh, bold and naughty magazine that became one of the most dramatic sensations in Australia.

8.30 pm tonight on ABC septy.

my reply was also a substitute TV guide.

yay. i had the cleo sherbet centrefold on my wall when i was a little kid. they were coming out of a cake. i was not aware of the sexual nature of the pic.

i expect a far better description of your favourite movie and why you like it when i run my next prize winning competition.

That was pretty good.

put me down for pretty good.

i feel like a ciggie. was packer smoking b & h?

Stuyvos at one point. Thought it was good - but the music was all wrong. They spent all their time recreating 1972 with set dressing but used a soundtrack that sat between 1965 and 1969. Except for Sherbert of course. I think that's lazy.

Ha! Funny you say that Urquhart Bluff, because there was a Visitors song (Living World) played about half way through. And I thought that was strange because that wasn't recorded until 1979.

really wanted to like this but thought it slow and hammy and didn't last the distance. Asher Keddie really impressive, though.

Packer seemed to be smoking whatever everybody else was smoking

This was fucking awful.

She's played Blanche, she's played Ita... which blonde in history does Asher Keddie do next?

Ita, though, displayed far more common sense and remained focused on her soaring career.''

read: not her type.

Has she ever confirmed this? It seemed apparent he had the hots, but I didn't get the vibe from Keddie's portrayal. I figured she took up with the UK mullet.

And in earlier comment I meant both packers portrayed at coonies.

Jeez I thought he loved the piss and that's why he had to buy a vital organ from his chopper pilot.

No, that would be due to his huge appetite for junk food and gaspers.

he had a point, and ever since i too have rankled when i hear the word 'utilise' and greatly prefer to use use

LOL Miss Aus

quite enjoyed episode 1

he had a point, and ever since i too have rankled when i hear the word 'utilise' and greatly prefer to use use

That's pretty great actually. I wish more people would crack the shits over management speak - it's fucking creeping into everything these days.

Interior - Packer offices

Kerry Packer indulging in post-coital cigarette.

Kerry Packer: So Ita, what happened while I was in the NT, trying to commandeer a boat to see what was happening with the Indonesian invasion of East Timor?

Ita Buttrose: I wath working on an article about hemlineth for women thith thummer.

temporarybenbutler said 1 day ago:

She's played Blanche, she's played Ita... which blonde in history does Asher Keddie do next?

She has also done John Curtin's wife.. or something.. can't remember.

She needs to play another woman whose fame was decided upon by a man who fucked her. That's what these stories are about. Women who are ''allowed'' to have power because powerful men shagged them.

channel nine poaches the sequel

as with the very average hawke thing, too much story. It just went from scene to scene with no content. Some of the lines about Gough were laughable.

KevinArnold said 1 day ago:
People continually talk about how Packer is loved as aussie larrikin etc etc but from every person I've spoken to that knew or met him and everything I've read about him puts him squarely in the ''massive cunt'' category
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That's what I heard about Ita as well from someone who worked for her in the early 60s when Ita got her first big promotion.

I also fell personally offended by utilise. It's a stupid word.

naturally, just add 45 minutes of commericals...

having finally just watched it through, asher keddie got most of it right, except ita having an arse like the back of a bus.

probably more disturbingly, i recall i once had a fling with someone who had a fling with someone who'd had a fling with ita. that's just too small a degree of separation.

''It's Australian drama so you know it's not going to be anything better than passable.''

that's really a pretty shit generalisation. and wrong.

what about Animal Kingdom? or that Roy Slaven thing a few years back where the kid nearly chucks in his VCEs to run away with the reffo bird who later went on to bone Toby Scmitz in that crap chef show set in Sydney that got canned but had the smokin' hot Emma Lung in it?

yeah.

And what about the Sullivans?

I reckon it's spot on about Austrlia tele. with very, very few exceptions, it is really average. Paper Giants being a classic example. You can tell they thought they were doing something great. But it just wasn't. Not for mine anyway. The writing and storytelling was average. So's shit like Tangle - some lines you just can't believe made it past an editor.

watching the rerun on abc2 now.

i liked ita's dresses until the one she wore where packer told her to burn it. spot on.

Caught up on this over the long weekend. Really was nothing remarkable and the music was really irritating as others have pointed out. That said, it was good enough holiday viewing with some mildly interesting aspects.

Couldn't stop wondering if Packer was really that hands on. Would he really have been offering opinions on art direction? Tbb? Mathieson?

I just said really a lot.