Scandal!
New Zealand director Lee Tamahori was arrested in Los Angeles for trying to hook an under-cover cop, dressed in drag (Tamahori, not the cop). Tamahori directed pearlers such as Die Another Day and XXX, but let’s not hold that against him, he did also bring us Once were Warriors, which was rather good.
So, he was arrested and of course the scandal hit the news, and then it was forgotten.
However, today whilst I was browsing through the Wellingtonian I came across an article entitled ‘That’s my dress, Lee’. It is about this woman complaining that the Sunday News used her body and frock to paste Tamahori’s face over on their front page. She is really angry about it. The photo had been taken for another article in The Dominion Post last year, and the photo editor obviously felt that this particular dress was Tamahori’s style. I think it’s hilarious, I mean come on, imagine being at a newsstand and seeing your body with a man’s head on it. But this woman (who wishes to remain anonymous) is fuming. And do you know what she is worried about? She is worried that people will think that she is a transvestite. I know, I don’t completely understand the logic there either. Does she think that a) people will instantly recognise her body, b) people will then think that she must have had a very clever make-up job that transformed her into the exact likeness of
Lee Tamahori? Lee Tamahori in drag?
Basically what this woman is saying is people will think that she has dressed herself up as a man dressed up as a woman. It runs like a Shakespearean comedy. Sometimes I despair of people.
As for Tamahori, he should have brought his kinky games over here back home where prostitution is legal. Silly Lee.
So, he was arrested and of course the scandal hit the news, and then it was forgotten.
However, today whilst I was browsing through the Wellingtonian I came across an article entitled ‘That’s my dress, Lee’. It is about this woman complaining that the Sunday News used her body and frock to paste Tamahori’s face over on their front page. She is really angry about it. The photo had been taken for another article in The Dominion Post last year, and the photo editor obviously felt that this particular dress was Tamahori’s style. I think it’s hilarious, I mean come on, imagine being at a newsstand and seeing your body with a man’s head on it. But this woman (who wishes to remain anonymous) is fuming. And do you know what she is worried about? She is worried that people will think that she is a transvestite. I know, I don’t completely understand the logic there either. Does she think that a) people will instantly recognise her body, b) people will then think that she must have had a very clever make-up job that transformed her into the exact likeness of
Lee Tamahori? Lee Tamahori in drag?
Basically what this woman is saying is people will think that she has dressed herself up as a man dressed up as a woman. It runs like a Shakespearean comedy. Sometimes I despair of people.
As for Tamahori, he should have brought his kinky games over here back home where prostitution is legal. Silly Lee.
posted by Lis | 5:08 pm
5 Comments:
And do you know what she is worried about? She is worried that people will think that she is a transvestite.
I don't think she is worried about anything other than that she can make a bit of money by suing the Sunday News.
hola saludos desde valencia (españa)
I wish I could speak Spanish
Ok, turns out that 'Hola saludos desde valencia' means 'hello greetings from valence'.
So it wasn't a message of love from a mysterious foreign admirer.
Oh well.
Ewwww Vin Diesel, ewwwwwww.
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