Page 4123 - Week 13 - Thursday, 6 December 2007
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Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Judging by the accoutrements in Mr Seselja’s office, there should be a Star Wars marathon over the holidays. And with all the small Seseljas at home over the holidays, it would be good to take in a few cartoons. It is not often that town planning issues and transport planning come across in a quality cartoon; I suggest Who Framed Roger Rabbit? as a must for the Seselja family’s Christmas viewing.
There is a true story about a ship called the SS Politician, which in 1941, while en route from Liverpool to Jamaica, sank off Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides. The ship was carrying 250,000 bottles of whiskey at the time; the locals spent a lot of time trying to gather up those bottles before the authorities arrived. Compton Mackenzie turned it into a comic novel; it later became a comic film. Whiskey Galore is the perfect film for Mr Smyth.
Mr Smyth: I have it at home already.
MRS DUNNE: See. I just knew. Although it is not very long, he might also enjoy the Quentin Tarantino duo of martial arts films.
For Bill Stefaniak, the 1925 Sergei Eisenstein classic Battleship Potemkin is the perfect fit. It recognises his past policy formulation in the Liberal Party and his commitment to the defence forces. We know that Bill loves the odd war movie, so I suggest, amongst other things, Battle of the Bulge and the fabulous The Password is Courage, a movie about an inaptly named Sergeant Major Coward. Coward was a POW who was awarded the Iron Cross by the Germans for some of his escape attempts.
For Mr Corbell, my staff suggested Waterworld, because, like the busway, it was a flop and it never recouped the investment made in it.
Mr Seselja: That’s the winner.
MRS DUNNE: I am not going to start that. But since Mr Corbell is still coming to terms with his job as Attorney-General, I thought that a John Grisham blockbuster pack would be better. A few courtroom dramas and the machinations about the odd law firm should be more up his street. His watching should include The Firm, The Gingerbread Man and The Rainmaker, a film to help him get across some insurance and indemnity issues.
Since it is hard to get a taxi around town, I thought that Mr Hargreaves could be entertained by Taxi Driver and Driving Miss Daisy, but I finally settled on a bridge pack: The Bridges of Madison County for their heritage value; The Bridge at Remagen; The Bridge on the River Kwai, another Bogarde movie; The Bridges at Toko-Ri; and A Bridge Too Far.
I know that Mr Pratt loves movies nearly as much as I do. I originally thought that American Graffiti was for him, but I eventually decided that in the spirit of cross-party cooperation he should sit down with Mr Hargreaves and watch the bridge pack. I know he is particularly keen on A Bridge Too Far.
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