FROM RUSSIA WITH DEBT
"We drank beer out of pint glasses, ate curry and tried ever so ineffectually to pick up a couple of posh slappers dressed in business suits. In retrospect, a better induction to London life an Australian is unlikely to find. At the time I thought little of it, as we basked in the memory of long lost friends, dubious conquests and the lottery of life. But in the light of day, with a hangover that could maim a rhino and the inevitability of finding work smacking me in the chops, I realised just how lucky I'd been to know someone who'd put me up." Paul Dodson reveals the mysteries of being an Australian in London.
AN INTERVIEW WITH GERALD SCARFE
"Advertising is lies. I’m not wanting to sound pompous but I am trying to get to the truth and that’s what I see as being the truth. And I’m lucky enough to do that, you know, I can be rude to the King or whatever." Richard Marshall interviews Gerald Scarfe.
BLADE RUNNER: TECHNOLOGY STEALS THE SOUL
"This clever cinematic creation, set in 2019 A.D. Los Angeles, intertwined twenty-first-century science fiction and forties-style detective film noir, and was a bold new step in futuristic filmmaking, taking a revisionist look at humankind's obsession with technology, as well as the dangers and pitfalls that same obsession may ultimately bring about-to both humans and to the machines they create.” By Tom Waltz.
AN ODD DEBATE
"For the smutty minded, the subject of socks and sex begs to be examined. The reality of sock orgies is truly socking! Straying from the conventions of one partner marriages, the more sensuous of the species engage in wild, syntheti orgies.” By Liza Parrat.
AN ASIDE ON SONNY LISTON, THE LAST BOXER
"The familiar note of monochrome requiem is the sombre music of the fight game pre-Ali, a fag and whisky dive mix of Miles Davies sax cool and Charles Hoff noire snap. What came after Ali’s victory over Sonny Liston was a different kind of meaning, one which took almost all of its power from Ali himself. And with his passing there’s not a lot left. Boxing’s a marginal player for an increasingly dwindling audience on satellite tv, no longer able to carry messages about ourselves that go deeper than, for example, the average game show greed or WWF circus camp routine or ‘Fight Club’ Extreme-Fighting chic." By Richard Marshall.
RACING DEATH: The September Peterson Story