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Daily Telegraph Hopes To Make Lebanese Movie News More Palatable By Making Sure We All Know There’s A Hot Blonde Woman Involved
4:06PM Clem Bastow | The prize for moronic entertainment news coverage of the day goes to the Daily Telegraph (surprise, surprise!) for their efforts in reporting the shooting of a film in Sydney, Cedar Boys, that aims to challenge the public’s misconceptions of young Lebanese men.
Sounds like an interesting project, doesn’t it? Except you wouldn’t really know it from the way the Tele promoted the story, which can really be summed up by this picture their art dept whipped up for the piece (the flick happens to also star Rachael Taylor from Transformers in an incidental role.) :
It could just be us (though it’s the Tele, so it probably isn’t), but this whole thing makes us think of the brainstorm that went into this piece, which probably went along the lines of: “Okay team, we need to do a ‘think piece’ on this low budget movie about Lebanese youths in Sydney, except no one wants to read about those scary Lebs. Anyone got any ideas? Yes, you up the back… Why yes, let’s make sure everyone knows that it’s okay, there is a hot Anglo woman in the cast!” More » 
Invasion Of The Location Snatchers
9:29AM Clem Bastow | Steven Spielberg’s megabucks HBO miniseries The Pacific has been filming down around the You Yangs in Victoria for some time now, but it’s only recently started to impinge on the lives of suburban Melbournians – and how!
In addition to filming at Melbourne High School and along the banks of the Yarra in the last few days, just yesterday Rathdowne Street in Carlton North was closed off as trucks, crew, a bunch of 1940s cars and a few false shop-fronts descended on the busy shopping strip.
Our spies noted with glee that the production team had chosen the grodiest share-house terrace to tizz up for a scene of what is sure to be heartrending dialogue between a young GI and – presumably – his sweetheart, who were shot sitting on the steps of said share-house, which has never looked tidier.
And then, just like that – i.e. about two and a half hours later – they were all gone. Hop over the jump for our “exclusive” spy shots, captured with Mata Hari-esque sleuthiness by Defamer spies carrying camera phones. More » 
