Davey Jones' Locker

Good work @Heef. Jeanne and Clive are long overdue. Things looking grim for Bob Hawke and Prince Leonard and... murky... for Olivia at best. Willessee, Hadlee and Graeme Richardson have also been on the radar for a long time. Is the Reg Watson on the list the right-wing Tasmanian historian or the television producer?

LOL - This is going viral. In 1958, a television western produced an episode about a conman who drifts into a town and tries to dupe the citizens into building a protective wall. The conman's name just happens to be Trump. https://mobile.twitter.com/_AlexHirsch/status/1083140191362048000 Snopes says it is legit: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trackdown-trump-character-wall/

I don't think we have ever mentioned her on here but the "Trial of Joan of Arc" star Florence Delay is still going strong at 77. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Delay

NASA's JPL was founded by a batshit crazy occultist: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jpl-jack-parsons

LOL - some whinger has started a change.org petition to sack Chibnall: https://www.change.org/p/bbc-sack-chris-chibnall-as-dr-who-producer/c On Reddit, they are classing Resolution in the "so bad it's good" territory: https://www.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/comments/ac86n3/last_episode_was_probably_one_of_my_favorite_its/

Okay, you asked for it, so here you go, @msc and others... A collection of recent New Idea covers that help the housewives of Australia keep an eye on that bloody Camilla, who is always up to no good. The Globe, for good measure:

I watched it again just to give it a second chance. Everything, from the script to Jodie's acting, is just as risible as I thought it was. "I liked the idea of possession (a la Spiders From Mars) unfortunately it's yet another Pertwee idea (Green Death/Arachnids In The UK) rip off." Yes but it was also a staple of early 1950s B-films before that. "It Conquered the World" starring Lee Van Cleef is an example that is fairly similar to this episode, which is probably partly why I find it so schlocky. Planet of the Spiders, by contrast, is full of rich ideas.

Yes, all good. More here: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-03/olivia-newton-john-plays-down-health-rumours/10681802

Yes, it is a bit like if the Davison era were making watered down versions of Pertwee stories as rewritten by Pip and Jane Baker! Seriously, maybe the Dalek I meant to represent how Nazi ideology never truly dies but can "infect" people in later generations, which would be rather apt in this time of rising populism. I really don't know if Chibnall is that thoughtful though. It is hard to tell what his stories are saying about anything. For instance, he rids us of UNIT but his Doctor mourns them for instance. Taking your interpretation, does the story lament the decline of the alliance under Trump or endorse it? It is good to be nuanced but his stories seem so equivocal they end up not really saying anything.

"Ladies and gentlemen, from the people who bought you Jimmy Savile, meet the new hacks we have entrusted with our flagship multi-million dollar science fiction show... Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker."

You sprung me!

I saw Resolution last night. IMHO, it was atrocious. Probably the worst episode since the flatulent aliens at the beginning of the New Who era. Good points: 1. I liked the opening scene in the Dark Ages. They could have made a whole Beowulf-style story out of it. 2.Brexit killed UNIT. Yay!!! Hopefully it is permanently written out of the show. 3.Nice parallel scene between the Doctor making her sonic and the Dalek forging new armour. Bad points: 1. Most pure schlock script since Time and the Rani. Absolute trash. 2. I was sitting on the fence about Jodie but this episode clinched it for me: She can't act, at least not as the Doctor. She is a nice persona of the Dictir, poorly executed. 3.Yas is still completely undeveloped. 4. Daleks were once Nazi analogies. Now they are just semi-immortal demons that go around possessing people. Why? What do they represent? 5. The Doctor hates guns and killing but likes UNIT and has no qualms about tossing Daleks into supernovas...

Definitely Cleo Laine for me. A distant relative of mine, who I never met, knew her, so I'd ask her about him. By all accounts, she is lovely.

Prince William worries Charlie is a workaholic who needs to slow down a bit as he hits 70: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/741205/royal-news-prince-george-prince-charles-70th-birthday-prince-william-princess-charlotte UPDATE: Clarence House also has to deny there is a feud between Charles and his brats: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/clarence-house-has-dismissed-reports-of-a-feud-between-charles-and-his-sons-as-complete-fiction/news-story/3a171d29ec081f6ab63bb52307b95f29

It is not even a newspaper. It is a woman's gossip magazine. Most of the content is royal scandals and horoscope bollocks. It was once half-bearable but even my Mum won't touch it with a bargepole now.

He couldn't get on the cover of the Rolling Stone nor on his own thread here.

Yes, lots of rumours and denials swirling: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/reports-spread-that-olivia-newtonjohn-is-on-deaths-door-with-just-weeks-to-live/news-story/e60cee7c2554f25ce627c384ab619200 https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/cancer-striken-olivia-newton-john-has-weeks-left-to-live-ng-b881063052z

Cheers.

To spend New Year's Day riding horses, so still very active: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/royal-family-celebrate-new-years-eve.html/ Nothing going to happen any time soon unless she does a Christopher Reeve.

Hey Joey, I didn't submit a crowdsourced entry this year but, just out of curiosity, why was Vitti disqualified?

New barriers up to protect Her Maj from any hypothetical Terry Wrist: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1065322/queen-elizabeth-II-anti-terror-sandringham-nye-christmas-the-queen-royal-news

He is super-famous in Australia as lead singer in Cold Chisel and a solo artist.

As a fellow Aussie, I feel obliged to try to beat that record this New Year's Day.

I thought from the Liza Minelli thread you only liked them dead.

Do you like Jimmy Barnes' version?