Feel Like Cutting Up Rough In New Orleans? Well, It's That Or The Monster Dildo
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday June 25, 2003
Tipping the Velvet
9.30pm, ABC : Numerous viewers have been appalled at the debauchery promoted by this intermittently racy and romantic potboiler. In tonight's tantalising instalment, Nan tires of affecting ``arty" attitudes for the delectation of Diana Lethadale and her depraved acolytes. She defies her butch mistress when Diana orders her maid, Blake, to perform an indecent act. Nan and Blake retire to an upstairs chamber where the monster dildo is produced and certain unspeakable interludes are set in train. But ecstasy is denied and in a twinkling the pair are evicted. Blake duds Nan, who finds herself again in the gutter. She makes a beeline for Florence's humble abode where at last purpose, warmth, love, motherhood and all the elements of happy-ever-aftering await. Silly as a hatful but not without a refined appeal.
Trauma: Life in the E. R.
11pm, ABC : Way down yonder in New Orleans, in the land of dreamy queens (Hello, darls!), there's a garden of Eden . . . you know what I mean. Signs welcoming travellers at the city limits proclaim New Orleans as ``the city that care forgot". Ah yes! Begone dull care! As the Prince of Wales noted in his inspirational call to charity and humanity, published on the John Sands calendar for 1936: ``Depression and apathy are the devil's own away with them!" It's a wonderful life cranking out slogans for state crests, number-plate holders and tourist leaflets. And visitors to New Orleans revel in ``authentic" Dixieland nostalgia. But New Orleans leads the nation in homicide, cancer, asthma and obesity as this tiptoe through various hospital outpatient clinics reveals all too clearly. Ever so nice with a weight-reducing wafer and a snifter of Norman Mailer's St James Infirmary Style Bourbon (Black Label).
State of Origin II
8 pm, 9 : With Lleyton out of Wimbledon, there's one less potential photo op for the PM. But the second match of the annual Origin of the Species series might provide a chance. Game two is always the crucial one and the smart money is on NSW to tidy up the series. Queensland must miss fewer tackles, work a bit smarter both around the ruck and out wide. And if Lockyer is 100 per cent (or better), an upset is more than possible buggering Brad Walter's chance of picking the entire round. The blah begins at 7.30 earlier if Ray is involved but the game kicks off at 8pm. What's left of Wimbledon (day three) starts at 10.45pm. Ratings gold for Nine.
Australia by Numbers
7.30pm, SBS : ``Sydney 2000 The Foundation". Can the 40-year history of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs be satisfactorily condensed into a half-hour doco? The foundation was the crucible for significant political manoeuvres in the 1960s and '70s, and the blend of anger, judicious tact and wisdom that propelled change among Koori activists is recalled by stirrers such as Chicka Dixon, Ray and Esther Carroll, Joyce Clague and the stroppiest of them all Gary Foley.
Neighbours
6.30pm, 10 : Toadie proposes to Dee in a half-hour of searing drama ``proudly brought to you by . . ." grab food chains and the high-calorie/high-fat snack foods offering the oral equivalent of this sudser. In another wrenching moment, Ruby gives Harold the broom. Only for the terminally apathetic.
The Simpsons
7.30pm , 10: Ignoring Jonah Lomu, Homer decides to donate a kidney to his father. His nonchalance dissolves when Dr Hibberd tells him the surgery could jeopardise his own life. Homer at his gutless best.
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