“Police raided the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Paddington, in inner-city Sydney, on Friday after a complaint from a member of the public, seizing 20 of Henson’s photographs, some of which include naked images of a girl and boy aged 13 and 12. They have said they will seek prosecution under state and commonwealth laws, alleging the photographs depicted ‘a child under the age of 16 years of age in a sexual context’.”
Tag: 05.26.08
“Take Me To Your Library!”
NASA stocked its Mars lander with a libary of books. “Take me to your leader” was the classic introductory gambit of many a B-movie alien. Now that we’re doing a bit of planet-invading ourselves, “Let me take you to our library” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
Broadcast Network Ratings Stink (No End In Sight?)
“May ratings have been pretty atrocious across the board, in a strike-shortened year that’s already shaping up as the TV executives’ annushorribilis. The worst part is this may be no temporary hiccup. Increasingly, the shutdown and aftermath of the writers strike that ended in February is beginning to look like a signal moment in the slow, painful meltdown of the broadcast-TV industry.”
90-Year-old Former Ballerina Returns To Stage
“Now close to 90, Irina Baronova retired from the stage in the mid-1940s. But she stepped onto Adelaide’s Festival Theatre stage on Saturday with all the aplomb of the ballerina she once was.”