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[miss_squiddy]

If you've ever read the fascinating Disco Bloodbath by James St. James, you'll want to tune in to Channel 4 tonight at 00:15 to see

Outside: Party Monster
Interview with Michael Alig, king of the NY clubbing scene, as he awaits trial for the murder of club kid wannabe and small-time drug dealer Angel Melendez.

Either that, or you could go and see the horrifically gaudy looking Party Monster movie, which stars Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green, but still promises to be 'quite good'.


There's been some good TV recently. Anyone see 'A very British Hoax' on Channel 4 last night (about the SFX guys who built a flying saucer and flew it over Avebury) or 'Inside the mind of a killer' (the psychological analysis of the Mafia hitman who killed over 200 people in a variety of cold and unpleasant ways) on Channel five last week?

Comments

[panzer-attack.livejournal.com]

I watched that dramatisation of the life of Hitler the other day. Robert Carlyle was playing the lead role and he was perfect for it. He's fairly scary at the best of times.

[miss_squiddy]

That's been on already??? Damn!

[panzer-attack.livejournal.com]

I've got it taped if you wanna borrow it?

[miss_squiddy]

I might have to borrow that off you! (Did you see 'The Last days of the Third Reich' on BBC History BTW? Really interesting stuff.)

[panzer-attack.livejournal.com]

Not sure, but probably. I've seen so many of those types of programmes that they all tend to blur into one!

[miss_squiddy]

It was all about what happened inside Hitler's bunker as the Allied forces closed in and used loads of extracts from the diaries of people who had been there. Quite a strange programme really.

[panzer-attack.livejournal.com]

Can't imagine how horrible that must have been for them. Sure, most of them probably deserved it, but still....

[uv-lue.livejournal.com]

Saw that last night. I just found it really amusing. Did you see the short about how galaxies are made? Did anyone? I thought it was fantastic...no one was there to watch it with me.

Channel Five show the best stuph. The Shield, CSI, and a load of documentaries that actually interst me. Shame we can't get it where we're staying at the moment.

.:uv lue fairy:.

[miss_squiddy]

Boo! Boo! Have you tried getting a signal booster?

[myrddrr.livejournal.com]

I saw the Mafia hitman thing. Nasty man. But I now know why you don't use a chain-saw to cut up bodies... Hopefully I can find "hoax" on S4C, that sounds wierd, and slightly compelling too.

[miss_squiddy]

I was particularly disturbed by the bit about the rats and the bit about taking bets, but I thought the end was really interesting when the psychologist explained his ideas and told him how his kids would turn out...

If the UFO thing is on S4C, you *have* to watch it. Basically, these guys build a huge remote control helium balloon in the shape of a flying saucer, fly it over Avebury at dusk and then sit back and laugh at all the people describing it on the news... An A1 practical joke.

[metzkass.livejournal.com]

We did actually turn the tv on to watch the hoax prog. Someone should do those balloon makers under trade description act! 'Looking like a solid surface' my red well spanked ass. At least the hoaxers did manage to make the UFO look credible in the half-light in the end. Did you spot the Goths btw?

[miss_squiddy]

I know! But the end result was pretty convincing (as far as a fake UFO can be)...