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Peter Sellers

I was composing a piece in my study on the history of the casting couch in Hollywood and the bullying autocrat when my wife Gail stuck her head around the door to say that unless I created space in the planner section for her recording of Strictly she would delete several of the 20 or so episodes [...]

October 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Baker Boy

Though some regard him as a ‘Marmite’ personality – I don’t subscribe to Twitter, but apparently late at night, possibly when somewhat ‘refreshed’, I’m told he sometimes makes a bit of a prat of himself when tweeting – the irrepressible and one-time [...]

October 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

The future is already here, as well as in the future

When it comes to the relationship between audiences and movies or television programmes, the different sectors in the entertainment industry are split into quite simple divisions. Firstly, the production – the process of deciding what to make, whom to hire to make it (e.g. scriptwriters, [...]

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with it

Regular readers of the Rust will probably be of a vintage able to recall the Andy Capp cartoon strip drawn by Reg Smythe for the Daily Mirror newspaper. Capp was almost an early version of a British Homer Simpson, a working class Everyman from whose ‘ordinary’ interests in life – pubs, beer, [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Stirring the pot Morgan-style

For good or ill, the rather irritating former editor of the Daily Mirror and now all-round ‘shock jock’ celebrity/personality Piers Morgan is currently providing some of the best current affairs entertainment on his several times a week gig – usually partnering former BBC presenter Susannah [...]

September 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

QB VII

QB VII is the name of a court in the Palace of Justice in the Strand where a libel action was fought out between an American Abe Cady  a scriptwriter and Adam Kelso Polish born physician accused of carrying out grotesque operations in a death camp to sterilise by castration Jewish inmates without [...]

September 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Picking your way through a minefield

For those Rusters who are either mad about watching sport on television and/or are miffed by the fact that – on the face of it – they may seem always to be paying through the nose for the privilege of watching say 25 TV channels maximum via the broadcasting organisations deliberately [...]

September 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Better get ready

Spotted on the website of The Guardian this morning – a piece by Mark Sweney on the potential (or is it very real?) threat to mainstream television broadcasters from ‘new media’ giants, see here – THE [...]

August 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reality and perception

Regular readers of the Rust will be aware that for many years now I have been interested in both the possibilities – and moral/ethical issues attendant upon – presented by the rapid advances being made in the fields of robotic science, artificial intelligence and computer-generated [...]

August 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s sauce for the goose …

As I understand it from media reports overnight, Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn – who was once in favour of them on principle, has now rejected the proposal made earlier this week by shadow fire minister Chris Williamson, MP for Derby North, that ‘women only’ railways carriages should [...]

August 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

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