January: Grey Zone inhabitants making the news
Whilst the world seems full of younger people making all the moves here’s a short list of some grey zone inhabitants who made the news in January.
Politics
President Obama delivered his last State of the Union address ahead of the campaigns for party nominations where for the presidential elections later this year. Where there will be lots of grey and a lot of orange if the The Donald is successful.
Sport
A pair of grey zone cricketing brothers (Mike and David Hussey) captained their teams to the final of the T20 BBL05 with the senior Mike Hussey taking the honours over David.
A bunch of greying and greyed Liverpool Legends took on an Australian ALL Stars (practically all grey) 11 and showed that the legs may be slower but the silky skills and soccer (football) brains were still sharp.
Society
- Craig Foster (Foz) had some unwanted attention after the Legends, ALL stars game. Needing to defend himself against some perverts suggesting inappropriate attention to a child that led the teams onto the field. Which happened to be him as a father giving his daughter a hug as the teams lined up.
- Lee Lin Chin was the face of Operation Boomerang, the Lamb Council’s Australia Day ad campaign. Eliciting outrage from Vegans and controversy of the appropriation of Aboriginal Culture on a sensitive day for the Aboriginal Society.
Entertainment
- Samuel L Jackson gave a standout movie performance, as major Marquis Warren, in Tarantino’s Hateful 8 amongst an ensemble cast. Jackson obviously loving his appearance in another Tarantino movie just seems to get better with age.
- Missing from screens for sometime Kurt Russell as Jon Ruth gives a menacing performance in Hateful8,dragging Jennifer Jason Leigh to the gallows of Justice and his reward.
Icons who unfortunately exited the grey zone
- The iconic genre busting and music scene transforming David Bowie. From Space Oddity to Blackstar 40 years later. The thin white duke not only re-defined music but even financial markets when he issued Bowie Bonds in 1977 a financial securities investment to buy back the rights to many of his earlier works from his former manager.
- Alan Rickman who bought superb acting across a range of roles but best remembered for menacing performances including the iconic Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter and as Die Hard’s Hans Gruber – one of only 2 roles he agreed was a villian, the rest being interesting characters.
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