The Shaw Report: It's A Different Mind.

In today's The Shaw Report, an airdate for the new 4 part Tim Burton documentary, Blondie's Debbie Harry reveals the British actor she wants to play her in an upcoming movie about her life and a new Aussie poll has revealed the Top books read by Australians in the past year.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
There's sure report on ninety six airm.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, I don't know about you, but I've always been
keen to get a glimpse into the mind of director
Tim Burton.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
He's different.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
That is quite a mind, and we will.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Be able to do that this week when the four
part docuseriies Tim Burton Life in the Line is released.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Will we be able to confirm that it's a dark mind?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Well, it is, it's a different mind. It will different different.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I don't want to say, I just he's different. And
that's and so these movies that he makes, this is
the way he communicates because he's not necessarily, you know,
communicating like the rest of us.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Perhaps he's not mainstream.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
No, he's definitely not.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
But never before seen footage, artworking interviews with the likes
of Johnny Depp and were known A Ryder and Helena Bonham,
Carter and Michael Keaton, among others, will detail his career
from its early days. We'll get insights into his creative
process on everything from nineteen eighty nine's Batman to Edwards's
Hands to Netflix's Wednesday. It's not on any particular streaming service.

(01:10):
It's going to be one of those rental buy you
Know situations so you also can get it at Tim
Burton Life in the Line dot com. Blondie's Debbie Harry
has named which Hollywood star she wants to play her
in a movie. Harry has a documentary Anna Bio pick
in the works. You know, she's eighty ho to believes,
and she's revealed her dream casting to play her would

(01:33):
be English actress Florence Pu or she might call because
evidently the feeling's mutual. A few years ago, Florence was
quizzed about famous people she'd love to play on screen
and she answered Blondie and Dusty Springfield.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
So that'd be quite so.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Watch this space, imagine that an eighty year old former
playboy Bune and pop star Blondie.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
More than a quarter of a million Aussie readers have
just been asked to cast their vote for the best
book of the twenty first century. And guess what came
out on top.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Bluise Speach No.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe came out on.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Top, which became the TV series, and.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That was followed by Marcus Surzaks the book Thief. Now
I could not agree more. The only thing I just
don't know which one i'd put first a second two
of my that'd have to be equal. Two of my
absolute favorite books by two of my absolute favorite authors.
The top five also features Lessons in Chemistry, All the
Light We Cannot See, and a Gentleman in Moscow a
couple of other things that came to light in this vote.

(02:40):
The vast majority of readers are women seventy five percent.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know that doesn't surprise me.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
No, the state with the highest number of readers is
the Act, and we need to lift our game here
in the West.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Apparently we have the lowest number of readers.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, that's to do with the weather is right well,
and the Act, especially in the middle of the year,
you're staying inside, well, nothing to do, and you just
stay inside because.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
It's so cold anyway, So I'm throwing it off the.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Curve, right, You're you're heavy lifting for the rest of
the state.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Really, I read at least a book away.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I know you're always on about what you're what you're reading,
which is a good thing.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Love reading. It's a good reading is wonderful