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Star Trek To Roll Out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
5:49AM Brian Moylan | Remember when sci-fi movies were about blowing up aliens and attacking Godzilla? Those days are gone, my friend. Thanks to Battlestar Galactica and District 9, the genre now exists to please the intelligentsia. The latest victim, the Star Trek sequel. More »
From Spin To Spinning Letters, Could Lara Bingle’s Star Be On The Rise?
9:00AM Clem Bastow | Just last week it seemed the best thing They could come up with for Lara Bingle’s career renaissance was to appear on an advertorial travel show on Nine; hardly worth all the fanfare her return to the tele was generating.
Hold your horses, then, because it looks as though Lara might have something even more spectacularly exciting in store for viewers: SHE MIGHT BE THE NEW ADRIANA XENIDES.
By that we don’t mean she’ll disappear from public view only to reappear in a haze of driving offences and bizarre medical conditions, but rather that Lara could well be the new “letters girl” on the revamped Wheel Of Fortune.
It’s understood Nine is casting for the co-hosting gig of the new-look Wheel Of Fortune with Tim Campbell and Lara, who is currently employed by Nine as part of its Holidays For Sale program, is a frontrunner for the game-show gig.
A rep for Nine yesterday confirmed auditions for the job were being held in Brisbane but stopped short of naming Bingle as one of the starlets in line for the job.
“We are auditioning for the part of co-host at the moment but we would never say who is taking part in those auditions,” the spokesperson said.
“I can’t say that she is or isn’t being considered for the role. I cannot say either way.”
Good lord, man/woman, don’t keep us hanging like this! IS SHE OR ISN’T SHE?! You are toying with the nerves of fans of crappy afternoon light-entertainment!
We feel Lara would be great for the role. It would finally afford her the chance to learn to read and spell. More » 
