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Author Topic: Interviewer elbowed after on-screen ding-dong with Berkoff  (Read 105 times)
Reiner Torheit
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« on: 17:25:00, 06-10-2008 »

More backstage skulduggery down under,  as ABC presenter Helen Razer loses her job.  Allegedly this isn't due to the on-screen slanging-match she had with UK playwright Steven Berkoff  (himself, errr, "no stranger to controversy")...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/razer-sacked-from-abc-arts-program/2008/10/02/1222651268473.html
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« Reply #1 on: 21:09:09, 06-10-2008 »

The mind boggles, Reiner.

Was it a case of Oberon's "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania", or Benedick's greeting to Beatrice,
"What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?"    Grin 
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