Nearly 20 years after the show wound up, Molly Meldrum is back with his former co-host Gavin Wood to present The Countdown Spectacular. The show will feature 30 classic one hit wonders including Sherbert and Mondo Rock.
My question for the audience is this: what are the producers going to do to ensure that Meldrum shows up, if not sober, at least compos mentis? Then again, who cares? The man won half a million for his charity when out of his skull on Millionaire, so I’m sure he’ll deliver a fantastic performance. One of these days, the drugs and booze are gonna catch up to you Molly.
Malcolm Fraser came out of hibernation today to have his say about the sale of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme.
Look, it’s a great Australian icon and I think it represents privatisation gone mad. But more important than that, I’m against private companies having control of Australia’s water resources. Water is a scarce resource for the whole continent, and to have express use determined by private companies whose interest is profit for shareholders is not going to lead to the best answer.
Well spoken words, but I think the state and federal governments are already too committed to the sale for anything to be done about it. Meanwhile, my hopes that Malcolm Fraser had actually died but no one had noticed were dashed against the rocks.
At least he gave me something to write about. Back into cryogenic storage for you Malcolm, in between Walt Disney and Margaret Thatcher.
Well, after an extended absence from the Dead Pool, I have returned. I have to try and jam in all my posts before the world cup starts so that I won’t have any distractions.
Buzz Aldrin may have returned from the moon 37-ish years ago, but he seems to have dedicated his entire life to trying to relive the experience. His latest outing was at the fourth annual Team America Rocketry Challenge.
They have must put something in the water on the Apollo ships, because I don’t think Buzz is going anywhere soon. My only chance of getting points out of him is if he decides to build himself a rocket to return to the moon, and it blows up on the launch pad.
Doctors in Israel have decided to delay an operation, originally planned for tonight, on the former prime minister Ariel Sharon.
Three months after he suffered a massive brain haemorrhage, surgeons had been due to carry out a delicate task of restoring part of Mr Sharon’s skull, which was removed in an initial bout of surgery.
However, the hospital says it has been postponed because Mr Sharon has an infection in his respiratory tract.
Mr Sharon has been in a coma since suffering the stroke.
Some people just don’t know when it’s time to quit. Come on Ariel, I don’t want to have to do another post about a comatose man next quarter. Shape up or ship out.
Justice John Paul Stevens. Who the bloody hell is he? Why did I pick him?
Apparently he was nominated to the US supreme court in 1975 under the Gerald Ford administration. He’s the oldest and longest serving judge in the court. I think I picked him because I was pissed off that so many people picked William Reinquist last year and I didn’t get any points.
He also has a penchant for bowties.
I’m really scraping the bottom of the barrel here…
Robbie Williams has snubbed a meeting with 87-year-old ex-president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, we hear.
The singer begins his world tour in South Africa next month, but he’s not interested in meeting the legendary leader, according to sources at a shocked Sun.
Getting a dig in early, a spokesman for the ex-prez says he doubts if he knew who Robbie was.
We reckon the feeling might be mutual.
Of Robbie’s decision, one insider said: “He doesn’t want to meet the world’s biggest icon. He didn’t say why.”
It must be because Mandela is an even bigger legend than the man himself.
Get over yourself, Rob.
That’s entertainment journalism, at it’s best.
Sir Richard Branson’s personal wealth is skyrocketing, along with his Virgin empire. Chances are, if he gets terminally ill, he’ll just cryogenically freeze himself alongside Walt Disney and John Burgess. If he freezes himself just before death, in the hope that a cure will be found in the future, can I still have some points?
I had a theory that David Letterman could somehow unify most of my dead pool picks by having them appear on his show. After a quick Google search, I discovered to my dismay that the only one of my picks who has been on the show (as far as I can tell) is Buzz Aldrin! My celebrities are D-Grade at best.
At least none of them have been on Springer.
75-year-old Shatner seems to be ageing remarkably well, although he still hasn’t gotten away from making Star Trek docos. Could he possibly be the most typecast actor of all time, after Leonard Nimoy? If so, he only has himself to blame.
The mystery of his relatively youthful appearance is still yet to be solved. Perhaps he pilfered a few of the props from the Star Trek medibay set and has been using them to prolong his life. Perhaps all that teleporter radiation has altered his genetic makeup so that he is resitant to ageing.
Either way, he’d better check out soon, because it will give every cable network in the world the chance to run back-to-back Star Trek marathons, as well as putting me on the scoreboard. Beam him up Scotty.
Rumour has it that Maradona will be captaining a side in the “Soccer Aid” tournament, to raise money for Unicef. He’ll be joined by such B-grade celebrities as Robbie Williams, Jude Law, Gordon Ramsay and David Beckham. Also in attendance will be F1 superhero Michael Schumacher, who’s side will no doubt take the checkered flag.
Maradona, at age 45, seems to be recovering from his obesity and cocaine habit, so maybe I won’t pick him again next year. He was also recently spotted at a U2 concert in Buenos Aires. It’s been 20 years since he lead the Argentines to victory at the world cup, and you can bet your arse that he’ll be there watching them this year.
Meldrum Returns To Countdown
Dead Pool | stu | 
June 5, 2006 8:07 pm | 
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