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Controversy: An underwear ad in China using an illustration of the late Lady Diana has outraged people in the UK. Unveiled on the 13th anniversary of her death, the campaign at Shenzhen airport in southern China mortified some British travelers with the tagline, “Feel the romance of British royalty”…

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NZ On Screen has procured a gem of a clip from an early version of Close Up (1987) featuring a baby-faced 25-year-old ’senior forex trader’ with Deidre Barlow glasses who plays squash in teeny tiny stubbies. His name? John Key…

A brilliant montage of dance scenes from 40 movies. Footloose was one of the very first movies I saw at age 14 (there was no movie theatre in Balclutha). It was on a school trip to Dunedin to the bread factory and I feel deeply in teenage love with Kevin Bacon. (Shame about Swayze and the fags)…

From the 2009 award-winning Bollywood box office hit Magadheera.

Calling bullshit on this Cancer scare: Spotted this at the supermarket…”Oh, no! Miss Universe 1983 has Cancer? How awful!” But a quick scan of the actual story from the NZ Woman’s Weekly reveals that the former Dancing with the Star winner Lorraine Downes hasn’t got the big C, but that she’s doing some charity work with children with cancer and building her public profile. Talk about crying wolf!…

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