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World Trade Centre Survivor Lists	posted 13 Sept 2001
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE WHO MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THESE SITES AND WHO IS AFTER INFORMATION ABOUT SOMEONE THEY KNOW IN NYC The New York City Bombing Check-In Registry is the principal portal for survivor databases & message boards. (It was also the original survivor message board.) It also provides links to US government sites with lists of telephone hotlines. This site provides a basic search engine for info about survivors. The National "I'm, Okay" Message Center provides an alphabetical database of survivors in both New York and Washington. This appears to be the most comprehensive site. It's updated every 10 minutes and had over 8300 names when I last looked. The Disaster Message Service is a message board where people can either leave messages saying they're OK, make inquiries to find out if people are OK, or just leave messages of support. The Friends and Family Status Database can be searched both alphabetically and by affiliation (ie college, family or company that the person was a part of). This site is another message board style site. This site contains a link to Personal Status page for survivors. This is the site for Atlantic Highlands, NJ where the ferry across the Hudson from NYC lands. If you scroll down, there is a list of people who've come across on the ferry. I will periodically update this list as I find new sites. I hope these are helpful to someone.
Great Moments In Racist Stereotyping	posted 11 Sept 2001
Isn't it fitting that all this scare-mongering over refugees is happening as we approach the centenary of the Immigration Restriction Act, which ushered in the White Australia policy?... To mark that auspicious occasion, let's take a peek at racism in early Australian films. Admittedly, we never produced a great racist auteur like D W Griffiths, but we did have a go at ethnic stereotyping. Here's two examples - A Girl of The Bush and The Squatter's Daughter - in which we learn that Chinese and Afghans are 'not to be trusted'... Anyone know any other great racist Australian films?
Trailers For Movies That Don't Exist	posted 11 Sept 2001
Let's face facts - most Hollywood blockbusters these days consist of 15 minutes of spectacular FX/action set pieces, and one and half hours of tedious filler that tries to pass itself off as 'storytelling'... You could pretty much fit all the good bits in a trailer, so why not just do that?... The good people at Trailervision would no doubt concur. They specialise in showing trailers for movies that don't exist, and they've got some real crackers with titles like Corporate Kung Fu, Office Sex 666 and Cliches In Love.
Monsoon Wedding : The Next Crouching Tiger?	posted 11 Sept 2001
Monsoon Wedding, a film by Mira Nair about an arranged Punjabi marriage, has picked up the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Although Nair's previous works (Salaam Bombay!, Kama Sutra, etc) have been typical art-house fare, this one is unashamedly Bollywood, complete with steamy passions and OTT musical numbers... Are we seeing the arrival of Bollywood's answer to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Could this film now go on to win a global audience for Mumbai melodramas? Stay tuned...
All Your Memory Are Belong To Us...	posted 11 Sept 2001
A group of US scientists has discovered that advertising can alter people's childhood memories, making them remember events that never happened. Adults who were shown mock home-movie-style adverts of Disney World visitors shaking hands with Bug Bunny became convinced that they had done this as a child... Even though Bugs Bunny is a Warner Brothers' character who has never appeared at a Disney theme park!... Either people are just plain gullible and can be talked into believing anything, or Philip K. Dick is getting more and more prophetic everyday... Your thoughts?
First We Take Toronto...	posted 11 Sept 2001
Forget Cannes, Venice or Sundance... The real home-away-from-home for Australian films on the festival circuit is Toronto, Canada. In the past, it's helped launch Shine and The Dish on the international scene. This year is virtually being swamped with Oz product - everything from Lantana and The Bank to Silent Partner and Paul Cox's arty newy, The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
How Many Rock Stars Do You Know With Three Nipples?	featured on Celluloid Dreams
It didn't seem to worry anyone on Boogie Nights, but Mark Wahlberg's third nipple has become a source of consternation on the set on his new film, Rock Star. The producers of the film, in which Marky plays a wannabe 80's rocker, decided that it was 'just too weird' for a rock star and so airbrushed it out during editting... Hang on... Too weird for a rock star?! Since when has anything been too weird for a rock star?
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