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Dear Gossips,

Wildly mixed reviews for Australia including enthusiastic praise from Roger Ebert and Variety, the Hollywood Reporter and the New York Times and on the other side, enthusiastic dislike from Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, and USA Today. Needless to say, the critical dissention isn’t helping the movie at all.

Australia looks to be a flop in America, perhaps even around the world. At this point, it might even drop out of contention from the Oscar race which, actually, is kinda too bad.

Love Baz Luhrmann. Love the campy, overthetopness of a Baz Luhrmann feature. Australia is supposed to be campy and overthetop like that. In a sense then, that might work in Granny Freeze’s favour, like taking extremes to the next level. Will see Australia this weekend. Will you? Or will you be with the fangirls and fanmoms seeing Twilight for the 5th time. Don’t lie. I know you are.

Friday – am blogging all day until the radio. Am guesting on CBC On The Coast for three long hours (!) from 3pm to 6pm PT today. If you want to stream live, click here and choose “pacific”.

Have a great weekend!

Yours in gossip,

Lainey

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