Cinema’s great love affair with French star
French New Wave actor Jeanne Moreau was born 90 years ago today.
Today In History
Stockmen, meat pies, kangaroos ‘n’ gunfights
Although the image of John Wayne on a horse fighting outlaws typifies the western genre, Australia introduced bushrangers and stockmen to the western
Can Olympic flame cool Korean conflict?
CROWDS at Sydney’s stadium roared approval when two Korean teams marched under the same flag at the 2000 Olympics.
General left his reputation to the sappers round Khe Sanh
The name Khe Sanh makes Australians think of a Cold Chisel song but for Americans it evokes a bloody battle during the Vietnam War
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Basketball’s court jester found destiny making people happy
Harlem Globetrotter legend Meadowlark Lemon first saw the team who would change his life on a newsreel at the blacks-only Ritz cinema in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1943.
Rock superstar Wright took Aussie music to the world
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The Aussie superstar who took his music hits to the world
He was 16 when a meeting with other migrants at Villawood Migrant Hostel recast baby-faced Steven Wright as a teen heart-throb.
Superstar Wright took Aussie music to the world
He was just 16 when a meeting with other assisted migrants at Villawood Migrant Hostel recast baby-faced Steven Wright as a teen heart-throb. Sadly, Sydney’s own Brit-pop superstars sizzled and burned after six years, leaving Wright unemployed at 22.
Church from an age of divided justice
The legacy of English King Edward the Confessor included one of the most famous churches in history, site of royal coronations and weddings.
The 1940 Christmas blockbuster too offensive for the censors
His blockbuster release of Christmas 1940 was a war film but Charles Chauvel still attracted the ire of the censors.
Vast show of faiths inspired by spaghetti and Maradona
The Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, hoping to win the legal right to celebrate marriages in New Zealand, is not even the most unusual faith in the world.
Mystery of the silver screen’s first Santa Claus
Playing a festive folk legend on screen can be a boon or a bust for a veteran actor
Ordeal not over for the Anzacs who survived hell of Gallipoli
The Gallipoli evacuations happened a century ago this week, but for many the ordeal didn’t end when they left the peninsula.
How Australia existed without money
When the British set up shop in 1788, there were no plans to mint money but it’s a complicated business running a far-flung convict economy.
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