This morning I sloped up to Radio New Zealand to review Richard Boock’s new biography of Bert Sutcliffe: “The Last Everyday Hero”. Kathryn’s a cricket fan so, even though she hadn’t got to reading the book, we had plenty to talk about. Including an unexpected diversion into the subject of Fleetwood Mac. Listen here or […]
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Andy Bull (good British name) talking about English cricket’s nomads and imports in The Spin: There is no need to mark a dividing line between those who arrived as children and those who made the decision later in life, just as there is no need to draw distinctions between players who have moved from Test-playing nations and those who […]
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90 minutes away from the first day of the 1st Test of the Ashes from lovely Cardiff, here’s something to warm the heart of any cricket fan, the Compton Cricket Club from South Central LA rap about the game: More on the Compton Cricket Club here, and here. I once toyed with writing a screenplay […]
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Acclaimed broadcaster and (slightly less acclaimed) pianist Jack Perkins has a book coming out. It’s a collection of his exceptionally well-written cricket reminiscences from the excellent indie-cricket blog Cricket Mystery. I commend it to you (and to the blog which is run by Jack’s boy Bryan). It slides off the presses later this month.
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Tonight marks the first night off I have had in quite a while. No Downstage, no study, no films to watch. I got home fully intending to switch on the tv and watch the cricket from Bangladesh, only to discover that my Sky has been cut off — it’s that long since I switched it […]
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It’s almost as if New Zealand Cricket want to make it hard to support the Black Caps. What with sudden, unexpected retirements and the loss of the Boxing Day Test, they now give us this fiasco: [Hat tip to Hadyn at Public Address for the heads up and Richard Irvine at Sport Review for the pic]
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”