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Locker room bit? Can you be more specific? Do you mean the one at WMXX? In that case...no. The Benoit/Eddie match from Nitro was great minus Eddie's hilariously botched 619 at the start.

He's actually not too bad. He talks mostly throughout the match about how Benoit and Regal work the crowd and dictate the pace of match rather than letting the fans dictate. He talks in a vague sort of way about the match's "psychology" but rather than pointing out anything specific he says things like 'there is no wasted movement'. The rest of the match they talk about Regal returning from injury, a bit about the Pillman memorial and that sort of thing.

Prichard: the crowd are chanting boring at the start of the match but they are on their feet at the end of it!

Thats weird. I've had my copy for like a week now. Don't know why Australia gets it first but I'm not complaining. Some DVD Notes: - There's an easter egg on how Benoit lost his tooth - Todd Grisham's commentary on the Japanese matches is hilariously misinformed. At one point he observes that the Japanese wrestling style is very similar to lucha libre. Benoit and Malenko go 'no....not really'. - Commentary on the Regal match is interesting as Prichard says its the match he shows students who want to learn about wrestling.

I think she died.

Source: IMDB.com Who would've though such a sweet old man would have such rage in him? I agree with him mostly. Maybe shooting a dude for stealing a pound of cake is a bit harsh though.

Michael Moore Hates America There's the link to the Michael Moore Hates America documentary thats coming out soon. Watch and discuss!

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0...255E401,00.html Poor guy. Not really sure what we can do about all this. It would be pretty fucked up if this started happening regularly.

...didn't we just have a thread about the whole "10,000 dead Iraqis" thing?

Documentaries don't need to present both sides of the arguement. Moore's failing is his accuracy in providing facts.

Actually I'll be interested to see the response to this. I do know a lot of people in Australia who blame Bush for the other beheadings (?!!) but they can't really do that with this one.

Ebert responded to a question regarding Moore and bias in his film recently. I think it makes for good reading:

Look I'm sure if the WWE just explain that he is based on a retarded kid who the wrestlers used to make fun of backstage, everyone will realise the whole thing was a big misunderstanding.

I still love their interview the Hardys gave at Royal RUmble 2000. If the Hardys stay on par at that level of quality, and with Lita and a pregnancy angle thrown thrown in for good measure, we would be in for some fine comedy.

Elijah Wood has been in 4 memorable movies in a row.

Shawn could win but then Triple H could take him out with the sledgehammer after the match, putting him out of action. This could put more heat on Triple H and when Shawn eventually returns they can have End of the Feud Match Part IV. And what is this nonsense about Triple H having to do Number One contenders matches?

I saw him wrestle for WWA. He was in a tag match and spent most of the time looking like a bad-ass on the ring apron. I thought 'one day, this guy will make it big in wrestling.' Then a couple of years later he was wrestling at Wrestlemania with The Undertaker as his tag team partner. True story. He's since made it in Hollywood and appeared in a film with Brad Pitt. Go Nathan go!

He can lose a hair match to Jericho. Sadly, he's a former marine so the hair stays. And how awesome was it seeing Nash dressed up as Where's Wally? in The Punisher movie.

I think globally there would be a lot of interest if there was a documentary on Blair. Especially if publicity king Michael Moore makes one.

http://www.controlroommovie.com/site/01.html And a rather snappy trailer. Looks like its a hard life working for Al Jazeera. People from all sides hate you!

Below is a review by Roger Ebert of a documentary about Al Jazeera. I personally hadn't heard of it and I don't think its coming to Australia anytime soon. Thought Betty Houle might like this one. CONTROL ROOM / *** (Not rated) June 11, 2004 Magnolia Pictures presents a documentary written and directed by Jehane Noujaim. Running time: 84 minutes. No MPAA rating. BY ROGER EBERT The final film I saw at Cannes 2004 came from Egypt and contained a surprise. It was "Alexandrie ... New York," by the veteran director Youssef Chahine, and it told the autobiographical story of an Egyptian who comes to America in 1950 to study at the Pasadena Playhouse, and returns again in 1975 and 2000. There is a lot more to it than that, but what struck me was when the student joined his classmates in singing "God Bless America" at the graduation. I hadn't heard that in an American film since "The Deer Hunter" in 1978. The character in 1950, and apparently the 78-year-old Egyptian who told his story, loved America. I thought of them as I watched "Control Room," an enlightening documentary about how the U.S. networks and the Arab satellite news channel Al Jazeera covered the early days of the war in Iraq. If Americans are familiar with Al Jazeera at all, it is because, as Donald Rumsfeld charges in the film, it is a source of anti-American propaganda, "willing to lie to the world to make their case." Yet there is an extraordinary moment in the film when Samir Khader, an engaging and articulate producer for Al Jazeera, confides that if he were offered a job with Fox News, he would take it. He wants his children to seek their futures in the United States, he says, and I carefully wrote down his next words: "To exchange the Arab nightmare for the American dream." These are the words of a man Rumsfeld calls a liar. That many American news organizations including the New York Times, have had to apologize for errors in their coverage of Iraq may indicate that Rumsfeld and his teammates may also have supplied them with ... inaccuracies. Khader is seen in action, interviewing an American "analyst" named Jeffrey Steinberg who attacks U.S. policy. Afterward, Khader is angry that his network arranged the interview: "He's just a crazy activist. He wasn't an analyst. He was just against America." We also see correspondents from CNN, Fox and the networks attempting to stay objective, although they collectively lose it when a military spokesman holds up the famous deck of cards with the faces of Iraq's "most wanted" on it, announces the decks will be distributed by the thousands throughout the country, and then refuses to let the journalists see the cards. The documentary is low-key for the most part, just watching and listening. Many of its scenes take place in and around CentCom, the temporary media center in Qatar where the world's journalists gathered during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Here Americans have long conversations with their counterparts at Al Jazeera, which is privately owned and heavily watched in Arab countries because viewers trust it more than their own government channels. I have not seen Al Jazeera and am in no position to comment on its accuracy. I have seen this film, however, which contains enlightening moments. Remember the TV scene when joyous Iraqis toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein after the capture of Baghdad? TV pictures on the monitors at CentCom clearly see something American audiences were not shown: The square was not filled with cheering citizens, but was completely empty, except for the small band of young men who toppled the statue. Al Jazeera producers watch the footage with their U.S. counterparts and observe that those who are interviewed "do not have Baghdad accents." They wonder why one "happened to have the old Iraqi flag in his pocket." The implication: This was a staged event, initiated by the U.S. occupation and bought into by the U.S. media. The movie listens in on many philosophical bull sessions between a U.S. Marine press spokesman, Lt. Josh Rushing, and an Al Jazeera producer named Hassan Ibrahim, who once worked for the BBC. Rushing defends the American line but is willing to listen to Ibrahim, who deconstructs some of the American claims (his version: "Democratize or we'll shoot you"). Some of Rushing's statements ring a little hollow today, as when he says, "The American POWs expect to be treated humanely, just like we are treating our prisoners humanely." The correspondents are saddened when three journalists are killed in Baghdad by U.S. strikes. We see one of them, working for Al Jazeera, sitting sadly behind sandbags on the roof of a building, looking like a man who has had his last meal. The network carefully informed American authorities of the location of their bureau, it's noted, and American rockets struck that location not long after Rumsfeld and others complained about Al Jazeera's coverage. An accident of war. "Control Room" was directed by Jehane Noujaim, an Arab-American documentarian who made "Startup.com," the absorbing 2001 doc about an ambitious Web site that got caught in the collapse of the Internet bubble. In this film, she seems content to watch and listen as journalists do their jobs and talk about them. She doesn't take sides, but in insisting that there is something to be said for both sides, she offends those who only want to hear one side. What is clear is that the Al Jazeera journalists feel more disappointment than hatred for America. During one of those bull sessions, there's a rhetorical question: "Who's going to stop the United States?" And an Arab replies: "The United States is going to stop the United States. I have absolute confidence in the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. people." The film's buried message is that there is a reservoir of admiration and affection for America, at least among the educated classes in the Arab world, and they do not equate the current administration with America. Note: Salon.com reported June 6 that Lt. Josh Rushing was ordered by the Pentagon not to comment on this film, "and as a result, the 14-year career military man, recently promoted to captain, plans to leave the Marines."

We could have Triple H and Bradshaw become the champions in one night!

I think we all anxiously await the day that there is a "WWE Hobart Havoc" tour.

I thought I knew my girlfriend pretty well but recently she surprised me by telling me of her firm belief in ghosts. She told me about one that 'hung out' in the elevator of the building she lived in. Kind of a banal ghost story really. But it got me thinking. Does anyone else here believe in ghosts or spirits? If you do, have you met one or got a good ghost story to tell?

Yeah, Moore's next doco is called Sicko and is about the American Health Care system.