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How Saddam Hussein saved The Late Show, and helped shape Australian comedy

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Plain text size Larger text size Text size is very large It is impossible to imagine Australian comedy – or indeed Australian film and TV – without Late Show . Front line and Castle , Did you pay attention? Martin and Molloy’s stage and radio antics, Judith Lucy’s biting stand-up, even high-end drama productions like Lamb of God (co-produced by Jason Stephens) all owe something (and in some cases everything) to the eight-member team who wrote, produced, directed, edited, and appeared on ABC’s one-hour comedy show, which ran for 40 episodes across two seasons on Saturday. night in 1992 and ’93. But it is quite possible to imagine the world in which the show is no happen, because for a very long time it’s unlikely to happen. By the time the first episode aired in July 1992, the crew – without Lucy in season one – had had a lot of stab at translating the relationship they displayed on stage and on radio (some of them first appeared together as part of the M...

Perfume captures the scent of 'Smelbourne' jams with the fragrance Eau D'ometer

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A Victorian perfumer has summed up the smell of Melbourne’s traffic after being challenged by ABC Radio Melbourne to stop its rush hour activity. Perfume Janelle Donnelly was asked to create the scent, named Eau D’ometer, after talking to a radio station about some of the city’s commuter scents. Donnelly says that he likes to go overboard, but he’s never been asked to limit the essence of traffic. “I think one of our favorite things as perfumers … is taking really left-handed concepts and turning them into fragrances,” she says. Janelle Donnelly told an outside broadcast how she created the scent. ( ABC Radio Melbourne: Zilla Gordon ) He hopes the finished product encapsulates “tears stuck in Melbourne traffic”. “We added a little more black pepper to give it that intensity, so it would be sharper and have more of a grating effect,” says Donnelly. The fragrance is built on geosmin, which gives the product an earthy scen...