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BurmaShave says ...

And of courses he's fat!

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George Prager says ...

What do you think he's saying in this photo?
"Hey, mate, how can I get one of those Did You Hear About the Morgans? dickeys?"

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tuesday4ahamburger2day says ...

And I thought only my students copy and paste.... This guy should go work for The Huffington Post. They steal content all the time.

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Colin says ...

Can't say I feel bad for him. How long till they say the same of Hammond?

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Terry McCarty says ...

Noticing a sort-of facial resemblance between Fischer and THR's infamous George "The Great Life" Christy.

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Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

Thing is, I love guys like Parry.

In the recent Razzie Award nominations, I had a perfect record of non-attendance until the Megan Fox double nom and much of my avoidance I can "thank" for junket/blurb whores who are the best tip off that a film is must to avoid. Sure, some films are easy (OLD DOGS), but when they can't find a single name reviewer for something like GI JOE you know that even your inner fan boy will find it a waste.

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rick blaine says ...

Sadly, Paul's always had a knack for getting himself into trouble. When he was freelancing in Sydney during the 90s he sold an exclusive "Hollywood star" interview (can't remember the details) to two competing weekend newspapers. Both papers, unaware of the scam, ran the piece on the same weekend. Talk about shit hitting the fan. They never bought anything from Paul to this day. Around the same time a verbal altercation with Oliver Stone and a local distributor further enhanced Paul's notoriety. Must look him up one day.

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Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

My bad - that was supposed to say "I love guys like Fisher"

But I really love guys like Parry for calling others on their shit like this. A schadenfreude thrill for the day.

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nemo says ...

He looks like he's playing Mr. Mole or Mr. Badger in The Wind in the Willows.

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Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

And seeing that you missed the historic moment last week, with yesterday's box office, AVATAR sailed past TITANIC to become the highest grossing domestic film ever.

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FunkDaddy J says ...

Parry really has it out for this guy. This is an entertaining read.

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BurmaShave says ...

Not really germane, but G.I. JOE is not that bad. 1000 filmmakers probably could not have made a G.I. JOE movie any better, and there are dozens who could have made it worse. A fun, solid double that understands it is a goofball property. Completely free of Bay's insane Trannies mythology.

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Mark says ...

Isn't this a bit like condemning a hooker for faking an orgasm? If his written opinions were often unlikely ever truly sincere, why should we care that the wording of his plot synopsis didn't come from him either.

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Anthony Thorne says ...

Jesus Christ, here we go again - there must be something in the water down here in Sydney and Melbourne that makes certain Oz critics go "Fuck it, she'll be right mate!" when turning 'creative' as far as penning something of original authorship. Melbourne film academic Barbara Creed (author of horribly unreadable academic tomes arguing that every single horror film ever made is an expression of man's symbolic fear of the vagina) was shitcanned some years ago from the Melbourne newspaper THE AGE for a long string of plagiarism offences. Examples of her fine work were repeating chunks of the QUIZ SHOW review Peter Travers did for Rolling Stone, reprinting press notes for HK films from the local Chinatown Cinema, and regurgitating whole sections of of a review of Tsui Hark's GREEN SNAKE that were reprinted in a Valhalla Cinema publicity handout. I appreciate that plagiarism doesn't rank alongside the categories of child rape or serial murder but amongst the general standards of working professionals I feel there are few acts lower than ripping off another writer's work. Good on Parry for doing the detective work in this case and standing by his conclusions.

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Gordon27 says ...

"there must be something in the water down here in Sydney and Melbourne that makes certain Oz critics go "Fuck it, she'll be right mate!" when turning 'creative' as far as penning something of original authorship."

Interestingly, Chris -- who seems to be really really into going after critics for stuff like is -- is an Aussie as well.

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Anthony Thorne says ...

"Interestingly, Chris is an Aussie as well."

Yeah, I noticed that when he mentioned the Oz mag FILMINK in his article. He's evidently one of the good guys. I didn't mention it in my earlier post as it would drag things too far off topic, but the Oz literature scene had a major plagiarism scandal when pseudonymous art-lit harridan Helen Demidenko/Darville - winner (briefly) of a major literature award down here - was pegged as a serial plagiarist across both her books and newspaper articles. We do have some solid writers in Oz, but I sometimes suspect that - for the odd, chosen few - there's an edge of desperation evoked by living such a distance from more high intensity creative centres like LA, NY, Berlin, London etc, which itself often creates an 'atmosphere' where certain, needy folk will flinch at doing the hard yards required to make good work, seeking short cuts to simply being a semi-famous,well-dressed media figure popping up in the style photo sections of local magazines instead. (That noted I woudn't exactly call Fischer well-dressed in the pic above). One ugly high-profile pay TV show down here had young hip 'filmmakers' who had won a TV funding contest to quickly shoot a film bragging at length about the art of the deal and the size of their investments rather than evidently giving a shit about what they were going to shoot, or why, or how, or whether it would be any good. (A few years ago a painful documentary came out of the dumbass travails of two such types who blew a couple of million of other people's money on an eventually unreleasable 'comedy'). Hey, I could be wrong. There are undoubtedly Rupert Pupkins everywhere, but I guess the ones that lie closest are the ones that rankle. That noted, I hope Fischer's plagiarism exploits earn him a really shitty time, as he's evidently earned it.

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scooterzz says ...

fischer is a complete asshat and the stories about him are legend...the fact that his day job is teaching school has always seemed a bit creepy..... his london meltdown and crying jag when he thought he lost his cell phone will remain a visual many will find hard to shake.......he's a total pud and i have no sympathy for him.....no offense intended, of course.......

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EdHavens says ...

It is said that one only discovers who his true friends are in the face of adversity. Granted, Mr. Fischer put himself in this state, but I think he's about to discover he doesn't have many true friends. Of course, Mr. Fischer also put himself in this state.

I don't particularly enjoying kicking a guy when he is down, but Paul Fischer is (or was, if one is to believe he retired after Mr. Parry's piece was released) the epitome of what is wrong with internet journalism. Not that I hold myself up to some kind of Murrowian standard of journalism excellence, but Mr. Fischer has for years had an unnatural and confusing sense of entitlement that belied his true status.

I pretty much stopped attending press days after his embarrassing hogging of the 3:10 to Yuma press day, where he ate up at least 1/3 of the group's allotted 20mins with Mr. Crowe and Mr. Bale on a "question" to Mr. Crowe that was relating some story about a young and unknown Mr. Crowe visiting the classroom of Mr. Fischer's daughter back in Australia many years before, with a "Do you remember that?" thrown it to make it an actual question.

Now that I know there is little chance of his being in attendance, maybe I will start going to them again.

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HarryMoseby says ...

With standards as low as they are in this arena, is it really that hard to make up your own bullshit? Look at all the people who do it well for free! Fuck him, he's fired.

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Joshua Mooney says ...

Edhavens: I'm sure you meant "Murrovian" ;)
But you're quite correct overall, and if it's true Fischer's been shit-canned, that's great. Well done, Mr. Parry. I encountered Fischer a few times, and "sense of entitlement" is spot-on, and as baffling to me as it was to you. But as HarryMoseby notes, standards are truly low in this arena, and I'm sure it's gotten much worse in the years since I've moved on.

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Joshua Mooney says ...

Oh, I forgot to mention my whole fucking point, which is that I *always* assumed PR productions notes were cynically designed and written to be used exactly as Fischer used them.

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