Poisoned chalice of the year
Sir John Anderson will take over as chairman of Television New Zealand at the end of April, Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey announced today. Anderson, as few of us will know, is chief executive of the ANZ/National Bank.
As the saxophonist Paul Desmond once said, "So this is how the world ends, not with a whim but a banker."
As the saxophonist Paul Desmond once said, "So this is how the world ends, not with a whim but a banker."
posted by Stephen Stratford at 1:02 PM
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I've always thought banking was rhyming slang. So running a TV channel is natural career progression.
At least it's not Sir Joh
That's enough TS Eliot.
Four Quartets? Give me the Mozart quartets any day instead. Hell, give me the Bartok. Give me the Kronos. Especially their cellist. Classical babe, or what?
I'm a Haydn/Schubert/Beethoven man myself.
But how professional of TVNZ to have a banker as chair and a lawyer as newsreader. What next? An accountant as weather person?
Paul Desmond not only played sax on Dave Brubeck's classic 'Take Five', he wrote it. Respect.
Another pun to rival his sax playing came when he saw a woman wearing an elaborate hat decorated with all sorts of vegetation - this was the 50s, when women wore hats with a vengeance. Desmond said, 'With fronds like that, who needs anenomes?'
I'm pretty sure he said "anemones". In the words of another great saxophonist (Ronnie Scott, God bless him), "You've made a happy man very old."
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