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Do it. Do it now. Let’s crash Cowell’s Christmas.
In other news, this is the last Saturday for a bit when I’ll be relegated to the back room while puffed-up ponces prance about in the front. Result. I’m about to extort 14 weeks of my own where I have control of the television on a Saturday evening. What shall I inflict on the rest of the family, do you think? Obviously I won’t be able to stretch to anything as ghastly Strictly Come Dancing. I wonder what an eight and four year-old would make of a Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano restrospective…
Posted on December 20th, 2008 at 7:46pm under Culture, media and sport, Pooterism
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Reality TV?
(Pssst… In Japan he’s better known as a television presenter than a film star/director – and has a public persona akin to that of a likeable Timmy Mallett… The kids may well love it.)
Kitano is the greatest living film director in my view. I absolutely adore his work. Which is what makes that “other aspect” of his career (arguably the bit for which he’s most famous) so incongruous.
It is odd, certainly. The (Japanese) missus had never seen a Beat Takeshi movie until I took her to see Zatoichi. She found it rather hard to take seriously – not least because she grew up on the original movies from the 60s/70s. (I’ve sadly yet to see any of those, but Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo – guest starring Toshiro Mifune – is on my list to track down when I’m out in Tokyo in January. Assuming it’s out on DVD.)
This now seems to have gone off on a tangent…
Here’s what Hagley Road to Ladywood thinks of the X-Factor, Simon Cowell and what they’re doing to music.
http://mymarilyn.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-simon-cowell-killing-music.html