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W wicked comedy!

E excellent!

C cracked me up!

A masterpiece!

N not like all the other crap on telly!

B bloody good!

E even better than Kath & Kim!

H hilarious!

E excruciating!

R really, really funny!

O oughta win lots of awards!

E ended too soon!

S sublime!

Run, don't walk to the video store and get your hands on this remarkable comedy! Chris Lilley's "mockumentary" about five people who have been nominated for the award of Australian of the Year, is one of the best comedy shows ever written... and not just in Australia either. Lilley creates characters and situations that are extreme and then underplays them wonderfully. The five nominees are fictional and larger than life... but only just. We all know people like them and some of their actions hit very close to home. We Can Be Heroes is side-splittingly funny but has some wonderful moments of pathos....... such as Pat's fight with cancer, Nathan's poem to his brother and Ricky's relationship with his dad. Don't miss this one!

If you mixed Logan's Run, Freejack and Bad Boys II together... you would probably end up with a movie like The Island. My experience of watching what was actually a pretty decent film was spoiled slightly by the nagging feeling that I had seen all of it before.

Even the end sequence helicopter shots of the people in white on the hillside seemed to be stolen from the "I Still Call Australia Home" Qantas commercials.

But if you can get over the rehash of old movies (or if you haven't seen any of them), The Island is a well made, thought provoking film due to a good script and cast and a surprisingly restrained Michael Bay.

I love this show! It has fantastic scripts, innovative directing and its themes are universal. It's not about lesbians. It's about the lives of a group of women in LA who happen to be lesbian/bi-sexual/not-sure. Yes, it is true that none of these women look like any lesbians I know... but this is television people! If I wanted to see real lesbians I would go down the street to the local gay bar. When I watch telly I want to see hot women. And these women are!

Here's an interesting bit of trivia for you: The L Word caused a real ruckus when it was shown in Australia. It premiered without any real fanfare and no-one paid much attention to it at first... until a Christian organisation in Melbourne called Saltshakers realised what the show was about. They sent a letter to all the companies who were advertising during the show asking them if they realised what the content of the show was, and that it promoted lesbian motherhood, threesomes and one night stands. The letter said (quote)"I would hope that you value your 'normal' customer base enough not to continue to be associated with such a program" (end quote).

Several of the companies who received this letter (DaimlerChrysler, Just Jeans, Allianz Australia and Roche and Centrum to name a few) immediately withdrew their adds from The L Word, saying that it had been an error made by their advertising agencies and that they had not realised what the show was about.

Naturally, Melbourne's gay rights organisations were furious and the mainstream media picked up the story. It made the front page of the national newspapers the next day under the headline "L's belles prove to be too hot for sponsors."