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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 31 min. 18 sec.) ; 553560414 bytes |
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*Coarse Language, Nudity, Sex Scenes and Sexual References*In early 1972, 30 year old journalist and editor, Ita Buttrose (Asher Keddie) and 35 year old Kerry Packer (Rob Carlton), heir to what was then Australia's most ruthlessly powerful and influential publishing family, got together to create a magazine that became one of the most dramatic sensations in Australian publishing history. CLEO went on to help define women, Australia and the relationship between the two.Research and marketing analysis showed the project would be a failure and the magazine was vehemently opposed by the powerful head of the Packer clan, the domineering Sir Frank Packer (Tony Barry) (known to his employees as 'God'), yet Ita and Kerry, knowing the consequences of failure would be dire, decided to back their gut instincts anyway.With courage and a stubborn belief in each other the odd couple went for it, and the result was a magazine that not only surfed the emerging 70s zeitgeist, but led the way in articulating for women a new way of thinking about themselves and their place in cultural Australia. Women readers found in CLEO a manifesto for a new confidence and an argument against the entrenched patriarchy that had for too long defined the relationship between the sexes. Filled with intelligence, wit and a 'go for it' attitude, the fledgling CLEO took off on its first issue, taking Kerry, Ita, and a hand picked bunch of iconoclastic staffers along for the ride.CLEO was a women's magazine with a libido and a curiosity about almost everything...Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo also stars Matt Day, Jessica Tovey, Ian Meadows, Maeve Dermody, Annie Maynard, Cheree Cassidy, Octavia Barron Martin and Olivia Pigeot. PRODUCTION DETAILSTwo part mini series produced by John Edwards and Karen Radzyner. Written by Christopher Lee. Directed by Daina Reid. ABC TV Head of Fiction: Carole Sklan. A Southern Star Entertainment production in association with Screen NSW, Screen Australia and ABC TV |
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Broadcast 2011-04-17 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Buttrose, Ita, 1942-.
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Mass media and women.
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Periodicals -- Publishing.
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Women's periodicals -- Publishing.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Cassidy, Cheree, cast
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Day, Matt, cast
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Dermody, Maeve, cast
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Martin, Octavia Barron, cast
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Maynard, Annie, cast
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Meadows, Ian, cast
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Pigeot, Olivia, cast
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Reid, Daina, director
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Tovey, Jessica, cast
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