ABC TV : Margaret & David’s final show.
P.S. At the movies.
As Pomeranz and Stratton butted heads over popular films
we watched from our couches, seriously deciding what to view.
Twenty-eight years of sitting opposite each other – their visceral
affectations vomited in heat or calmly, quietly same-shoe spoken.
Their passion at performance, intimate knowledge of past glories
and informed responses to direction, scripts, casting, sound, et al,
meant there was no alternative for viewers but these two icons
of cinema. Their reviews echoing a whole spectrum of audience
types on all genres, presented without ulterior motive or favour.
Concise, considered, eloquent and interested words entertained
as they informed. ‘We’re just reviewers’ doesn’t sum up influence
spread like ripples in a pond, viewed from above, once gone will
leave an empty space, impossible to fill by try-hard wannabees.
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2014
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