Monthly Archives: December 2011

This lost 1973 clip of Bowie performing ‘Jean Genie’ aired Wednesday night on the BBC’s Top of the Pops Christmas Special.

The costumes, the wacky colour-keys and fish-eye shots, the ganky, dancing British teens. It’s just wonderful.

All credit to cameraman John Henshall, who worked on the show and kept a personal copy of the footage since taped over by the BBC.

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MINISTERS WILL be held to account at the end of March for their success or failure in implementing the commitments made in the programme for government, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has revealed.

Mr Kenny said yesterday that he will meet Ministers individually in January to itemise their responsibilities in terms of “actionable points” in the programme, and will be demanding a progress report from each of them at the end of the Government’s first year in office.

In an interview with political correspondents, the Taoiseach said that he had established an office in his own department to translate the programme into “actionable points” so that the performance of Ministers can be assessed.

Call 1800-MEH.

Taoiseach to assess Ministers on individual performance (Irish Times)

(Photocall Ireland)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJLebzU&feature=youtu.be

Tim wrote a song for his appearance on the Jonathan Ross show on ITV:

Being Christmas, I thought it would be fun to do a song about Jesus, but being TV, I knew it would have to be gentle. The idea was to compare him to Woody Allen (short, Jewish, philosophical, a bit hesitant), and expand into redefining his other alleged attributes using modern, popular-culture terminology.

Subsequently, Suzi [producer] and her team edited the show and everybody was happy. Suzi felt it had a nice balance of big-ticket celeb action, local talent, and a nice bit of that cheeky, iconoclastic spirit for which Jonathan is known and widely loved.

And then someone got nervous and sent the tape to ITV’s director of television, Peter Fincham.

And Peter Fincham demanded that I be cut from the show.

He did this because he’s scared of the ranty, shit-stirring, right-wing press, and of the small minority of Brits who believe they have a right to go through life protected from anything that challenges them in any way.

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I’m NOT on the Jonathan Ross Show (Tim Minchin)

Via @BrianCox