Archive for August 7, 2009


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Foreign Correspondent is one of those Hitchcock films that doesn’t receive as much kudos as his later films but it is one of his best. It was nominated for best picture at the 1940 Academy Awards but lost out to Rebecca, another film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Here is the trailer to Foreign Correspondent.

Here is an interview between Hitch and Dick Cavett where he talks about Foreign Correspondent.


Yesterday I saw the news about Sam the Koala who was such a symbol of hope during the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires, and how she lost her life to Chlamydia.

There is some information on Koala Chlamydia at the Friends of the Koalas website. This is very sad news but hopefully Sam’s spirit will live on.


Anyone who has read Mick Foley’s book Have A Nice Day would know about the WCW Lost In Cleveland vignettes. Mick claimed that these were the most horrible things that WCW ever did but I am not so sure. WCW inflicted a lot of horrible things onto their viewers back in the early 90s.