by nyst-admin | 30/11/2017 | Criminal Law, Defamation, Hollywood, International
The nasty news, gossip and scandal that started with Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein has grown into a tsunami of distasteful allegations of misogynistic and worse sexual misconduct in the United States, reaching to the very upper echelons of the industry. It...
by nyst-admin | 14/07/2017 | Entertainment, Hollywood, International, Opinion
I read a news story just the other day about a self-declared “grammar vigilante” who reportedly prowls the streets of Bristol, in south-west England, correcting errant punctuation on business signs. Apparently for the past decade or so he has been venturing out late...
by nyst-admin | 15/09/2016 | Criminal Law, Hollywood, Opinion
G men love stoolies. It’s a fact of life. Over the centuries, the one thing that has most frustrated the work of ‘government guys’ – the regulators of all shapes and sizes, the G men, the Jacks, the fuzz, the heat, the traps, the Johnny Hoppers, federalies, wallopers,...
by nyst-admin | 23/06/2015 | Hollywood, Litigation, Opinion, Politics
Not everything’s about money. One of my favourite Australian films of all time is Ken Hannan’s classic 1975 drama Sunday Too Far Away. It tells the tale of knock-about shearers working the sheds on an outback sheep station in 1955 Australia. Their tough...
by nyst | 28/07/2014 | Hollywood, Opinion
It’s great to see Southport officially recognised by the State Government as the Gold Coast’s ‘new’ CBD. What a great story. It’s got everything but Marty McFly. In Robert Zemeckis’s classic 1985 sci-fi comedy Back to the Future teenager Marty McFly...
by nyst | 26/06/2014 | Hollywood, Opinion, Technology
When I was a kid every afternoon after school my brothers and I used to love watching The Dick Tracy Show on T.V. Detective Dickie would hurtle through the city streets in his police squad car barking into his radio wristwatch “Dick Tracy calling Go-Go Gomez,...
