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Kilwinning
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Kilwinning is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is on the River Garnock, north of Irvine, about 21 miles south of Glasgow and it is known as The Crossroads of Ayrshire. Kilwinning was also a Civil Parish, the 2001 Census recorded the town as having a population of 15,908. The Celtic Christians or Culdees of the period of St Columba and St Mungo found here, in part of Scotland. Kilmarnock, Kilbride, Kilbirnie, are all, like Kilwinning, in the distant past, the town was called Sagtoun, or Saint’s Town, after St. Winning, the founder of an early seventh century church on this site. However, the identity of St. Winning is unclear. Some scholars have associated him with the Irish saint known as St Finnian of Moville, others believe he was a Welshman by the name of Vynnyn, and the Aberdeen Breviary of 1507 asserts that he was from Scotland. The work of Professor Owen Clancy of the University of Glasgow in 2001 makes another identification possible, Clancy argued that, in fact, Saint Ninian and Saint Finnian were the same person, the difference being attributed to an error on the part of a medieval scribe. The original town was situated at the Bridgend and Corsehill while the bank of the river was the site of the abbey, its outbuildings, orchards, doocot. The Kilwinning Community Archaeology Project carried out a dig in Kilwinning Abbey in 2010, Kilwinning is notable for housing the original Lodge of Freemasonry in Scotland. When the Lodges were renumbered, Kilwinning was kept as Lodge Number 0, the lodges own legend attributes the formation to the building of the Abbey at Kilwinning in the 12th Century. There existed in this period corporations or fraternities of masons, endowed with privileges and immunities. The Lodge is reputed to have held in the Chapter House on the Eastern side of the cloisters. On the broken walls and moldering arches of the Abbey numerous and varied Masons marks may be seen, Kilwinning is located on the banks of the River Garnock in Ayrshire, west/central Scotland. Kilwinnings neighbours are the towns of Stevenston to the west. In 1966, Kilwinning fell within the area designated Irvine New Town, Kilwinning rapidly expanded with new estates built on surrounding farm land to meet the planned increase in population. Many of the new inhabitants were a direct result of Glasgow Overflow relocation. A popular local nickname for Kilwinning is Kilwinkie, the Main Street of Kilwinning has recently been refurbished as part of the regeneration of the Irvine Bay area by Irvine Bay Regeneration Company
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Ayrshire
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Ayrshire is a historic county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. It is also, under the name the County of Ayr and its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine. Like the other counties of Scotland, it currently has no function, instead being sub-divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire. It has a population of approximately 366,800, the three islands were part of the County of Bute until 1975 and are not always included when the term Ayrshire is applied to the region. The same area is known as Ayrshire and Arran in other contexts, Ayrshire is one of the most agriculturally fertile regions of Scotland. Ayrshire shares with Dumfries and Galloway some rugged hills country known as the Galloway Hills and these hill lie to the west of the A713 and they run south from the Loch Doon area almost to the Solway Firth. To the east of this route through the hills lie the Carsphairn and Scaur Hills which lie to the south east of Dalmellington, glen Afton runs deep into these hills. Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, serving Glasgow and the West of Scotland more generally, is located more than 30 miles away from Glasgow in Ayrshire. Moreover it has a niche in history as the only place in Britain visited by Elvis Presley. The area that today forms Ayrshire was part of the south of the Antonine Wall which was briefly occupied by the Romans during the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius. It was inhabited by the Damnonii, who are presumed to have been Britons, later, it formed part of the British Kingdom of Strathclyde, which was incorporated into the Kingdom of Scotland during the 11th century. In 1263, the Scots successfully drove off of the Norwegian leidang-army in a known as the Battle of Largs. A notable historic building in Ayrshire is Turnberry Castle, which dates from the 13th century or earlier, the historic shire or sheriffdom of Ayr was divided into three districts or bailieries which later made up the county of Ayrshire. The three districts were, Carrick in the south and it was situated between the Doon and the wild district of Galloway in the adjoining Stewartries, an area that was little else than a vast tract of hills and mosses. Cunninghame in the north included the royal burgh of Irvine was that part of the county which lay north of the Irvine water. The area used to be heavily industrialised, with making, coal mining and in Kilmarnock numerous examples of production-line manufacturing. In more recent history, Digital Equipment had a manufacturing plant near Ayr from about 1976 until the company was taken over by Compaq in 1998. Some supplier companies grew up to service this site and the more distant IBM plant at Greenock in Renfrewshire, however, unemployment in the region is above the national average
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Judy Davis
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Judith Judy Davis is an Australian actress. With a career spanning over 30 years she is commended for her versatility and is regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. She is the recipient of eight AACTA Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Emmy Awards and has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, as a student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Davis played opposite Mel Gibson in Romeo and Juliet. Her other stage credits include Piaf, Insignificance, the role in Hedda Gabler. Davis was born in Perth, Western Australia, and had a strict Catholic upbringing and she was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Australian Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1977. She has been married to actor and fellow NIDA graduate Colin Friels since 1984 and they have two children, son Jack and daughter Charlotte. The relationship was briefly in the media when an argument led to an order against Friels – however. They live in the Sydney area of Birchgrove, New South Wales, Davis first came to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the coming-of-age saga My Brilliant Career, for which she won BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer. Davis also played the lead in the Australian New Wave classics Winter of Our Dreams and Heatwave. In 1984, she was cast as Adela Quested in David Leans final film A Passage to India and she earned Australian Film Institute Awards for both roles, and a National Society of Film Critics award for Hightides brief American theatrical run. In 1990, she played a cameo in Woody Allens Alice, in 1991, she was featured in Joel Coens Barton Fink, which won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and in David Cronenbergs adaptation of the hallucinogenic novel Naked Lunch. She won an Independent Spirit Award for her work as mannish woman author George Sand in Impromptu and she portrayed real-life Second World War heroine Mary Lindell in the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation One Against the Wind. In 1992, she played a role in Woody Allens Husbands. For this performance she earned both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress and she co-starred with Kevin Spacey in the 1994 comedy film The Ref, portraying a married couple whose relationship is on the rocks, with Denis Leary playing a thief who counsels their marriage. Much of her recent work has been on television, where she has a collection of Emmy Award nominations and she earned a second Emmy for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2001 television biographical film Life with Judy Garland, Me and My Shadows. In July 2006, she received her ninth Emmy nomination for her performance in the television film A Little Thing Called Murder and her tenth nomination came in 2007 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the U. S. miniseries The Starter Wife for which she was awarded the Emmy. In August 2007, she appeared opposite Sam Waterston in an episode of ABCs anthology series Masters of Science Fiction and she appeared on the TV mini-series, Diamonds from 2008–2009. In 2011, Davis appeared in a drama film, Page Eight
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Kilbirnie
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Kilbirnie is a small town of 7642 inhabitants situated in the Garnock Valley area of North Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. It is around 20 miles south-west of Glasgow and approximately 10 miles from Paisley, historically, the town built up around the flax and weaving industries before iron and steelmaking took over in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The suburb of Kilbirnie in the New Zealand capital of Wellington is named after the town, archaeological digs conducted in the 19th century have shown that the area was inhabited during the Bronze Age. A crannog with a causeway was discovered in Kilbirnie Loch. The town derived its name from the church, the Auld Kirk. In 1740 there were three houses, the population grew to 959 people by 1801. Half a century later, and the town had grown substantially, in 1851 Kilbirnie contained 5,484 people, due to the Industrial Revolution, hastened by the locality of the Ayr and Glasgow railways. However, the industry entered a decline and was eventually closed, the Decoy Bride a film starring David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald was partially filmed in Kilbirnie. The town was hit hard by the closure of traditional industries. The town has the 9th lowest life expectancy among pensioners in the United Kingdom according to a report published in the Daily Mail newspaper in 2012, in addition Kilbirnie has highest bankruptcy rate in Scotland. Kilbirnie has a rate of 71 insolvencies per 10,000 people, just ahead of Clydebank, Glengarnock Steel Works opened its blast furnaces around 1841 which caused a massive influx of people from all over the country, as well as all over the world. Initially these works were owned by Merry & Cunninghame before being taken over by David Colville & Sons and eventually nationalised as part of British Steel Corporation, the steelworks in Glengarnock provided employment for most men of the community. The entire collection of magazines of the steelworks at Glengarnock have been preserved and are held at the Mitchell Library. This provides content such as spotlights on employees and departments, and these mills are famous for their nets, used by the British Army and BT Tower. They are one of few companies in the United Kingdom who have expertise in this area. W & J Knox Threadmills was owned by the Knox family who were prominent, not only in Ayrshire but in the South of England too, whos Who editions of the period list many members of the family. Since the closure of the works in the 1980s, the area has been an unemployment blackspot with distinct social problems. The town has few local employers, and people generally commute out of the town for work
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Darwin, Northern Territory
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Darwin /ˈdɑːrwᵻn/ is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory and it is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top Ends regional centre. Darwins proximity to South East Asia makes it a link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and East Timor, the Stuart Highway begins in Darwin, ending at Port Augusta in South Australia. The city itself is built on a low bluff overlooking the harbour and its suburbs spread out over some area, beginning at Lee Point in the north and stretching to Berrimah in the east. Past Berrimah, the Stuart Highway goes on to Darwins satellite city, Palmerston, the Darwin region, like the rest of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and a dry season. Prone to cyclone activity during the wet season, Darwin experiences heavy monsoonal downpours, during the dry season, the city is met with blue skies and gentle sea breezes from the harbour. The greater Darwin area is the home of the Larrakia people. On 9 September 1839, HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin harbour during its surveying of the area, John Clements Wickham named the region Port Darwin in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ships previous voyage which had ended in October 1836. The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911. The city has been almost entirely rebuilt four times, following devastation caused by the 1897 cyclone, the 1937 cyclone, Japanese air raids during World War II, the Aboriginal people of the Larrakia language group are the traditional custodians and the first inhabitants of the greater Darwin area. They had trading routes with Southeast Asia, and imported goods from as far afield as South, established songlines penetrated throughout the country, allowing stories and histories to be told and retold along the routes. The extent of shared songlines and history of multiple groups within this area is still contestable. The Dutch visited Australias northern coastline in the 1600s and landed on the Tiwi Islands only to be repelled by the Tiwi peoples, the Dutch created the first European maps of the area. This accounts for the Dutch names in the area, such as Arnhem Land, the first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ships captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, in 1863, the Northern Territory was tranferred from New South Wales to South Australia. In 1864 South Australia sent B. T. Finniss north as Government Resident to survey, Finniss chose a site at Escape Cliffs, near the entrance to Adelaide River, about 60 km northeast of the modern city. This attempt was short-lived, however, and the settlement abandoned by 1865, on 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin between Fort Hill and the escarpment. Goyder named the settlement Palmerston, after the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, in 1870, the first poles for the Overland Telegraph were erected in Darwin, connecting Australia to the rest of the world
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Brighton, Victoria
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Brighton is an affluent beach-side suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,11 km south-east of Melbournes central business district. Its local government area is the City of Bayside, at the 2011 Census, Brighton had a population of 21,257. Brighton is named after Brighton in England, Brighton houses some of the wealthiest citizens in Melbourne with grand homes, and the development of large residential blocks of land. Brighton is also known for its Dendy Street Beach with its 82 colourful beach boxes. As of June 2016, Brighton has a house price of AU$2,287,500. In England, on 29 August 1840, Henry Dendy purchased 5,120 acres of Port Phillip land at £1 per acre, site unseen, Dendy arrived on 5 February 1841 to claim his land. The area was known as Dendys Special Survey, the area Dendy was compelled to take, called Waterville, was bound by the coastline to the west and the present day North Road, East Boundary Road and South Road. A town was surveyed in mid-1841, defined by the street layout which remains today. The area soon became the Brighton Estate, and Dendys site for his own home was named Brighton Park, unfortunately, the land did not have any ready sources of water. Sales were slow at first, and the depression came and Dendys scheme for emigration. The family of his agent Jonathan Binns Were who had arrived in Melbourne in 1839, all of Dendys business ventures failed, and he died a pauper. After the depression, sales of land resulted in Brighton becoming the third most populated town in the Port Phillip District, Brighton attracted wealthy residents who wanted generous building sites and the prospect of sea bathing. By the late 1840s stately homes were built in a known as The Terrace, now called the Esplanade. The Brighton Post Office opened on 19 April 1853, St Andrews Anglican Church, Brighton, one of the earliest churches in Victoria, was founded in 1842. Wesleyan and Catholic churches followed by 1848, and a Methodist church in 1851, schools were opened on the Anglican Church land and by the Catholic Church in Centre Road. Another was opened in the Wesleyan Church in 1855, in 1854, Brighton had a census population of 2,731. A single line railway-tram from St Kilda to Brighton Beach was completed in 1906, the railway tramline was duplicated in 1914. In 1919 the railway was electrified, a tram ran down Hawthorn Road, the section from Glenhuntly to North Road was completed in 1925 and extended to Nepean Highway in 1937
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National Institute of Dramatic Art
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The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national education and training institute for students in the performing arts. Since 1958, NIDA has educated students in performance and production for theatre, film and it offers programs ranging from degrees to public short courses, including holiday programs and corporate training. In 2013, NIDA was ranked as the 8th best drama school in the world by The Hollywood Reporter. NIDAs main campus is based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington, located adjacent to the University of New South Wales, NIDA is affiliated with the University of New South Wales. Founded in 1958, NIDA commenced acting classes in 1959, more than 50 years later, NIDA has grown to approximately 232 full-time students annually, approximately 70 full-time staff members. The student body for these courses totalled 199 in 2014, NIDA is located on Anzac Parade in the Sydney suburb of Kensington, across the road from the University of New South Wales. The campus was first opened in 1987, followed by additional buildings opened in 2001, the largest of these is the Parade Theatre offering seating for audiences of up to 707 people in its three-tiered, horseshoe-shaped auditorium. The Playhouse, Studio Theatre, the Space and the Atrium offer a variety of performance spaces. The Rodney Seaborn Library is a specialist library for NIDA students, graduates, the NIDA Archives collects, organises and preserves archival records created by or relating to NIDA. Williams had defended herself stating her management style was not Thatcherite, long also mentioned that amongst Williams supporters were Cate Blanchett and Ralph Myers. Supporting Puplick were actor, director and a graduate of the school Jeremy Sims, who had launched the essay, and Kevin Jackson, who had taught acting at the school for 27 years
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Play School (Australian TV series)
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Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is the childrens show in Australia, and the second-longest-running childrens show worldwide. An estimated 80% of pre-school children under six watch the programme at least once a week. It is screened four times each weekday on ABC Kids, at 6.00 am,9.30 am,12.30 pm and 3.30 pm, in 2006, Play School was admitted to the Logies Hall of Fame. The program celebrated 50 years of broadcasting in 2016, many of the presenters remained with the series for lengthy periods, including Don Spencer, Benita Collings, John Hamblin, Alister Smart, Noni Hazlehurst, John Waters and Jan Kingsbury. While the show is written by preschool education experts, the presenters are all trained actors or musicians who can connect well with the target audience, Play School began production on 18 July 1966, and was based on a British programme of the same name. The first episode began transmitting that day, as the programme went out live and it has been produced continuously from this time. It has also launched the careers of several Australian actors and television presenters and it was admitted to the Logies Hall of Fame on its 40th anniversary in 2006, in recognition of the strong influence the show has had on at least three generations of Australian children. Play School was the show to enter the Hall of Fame in its own right. It was also the first childrens show inducted into the Hall of Fame, after these presenters accepted the award, the audience then joined them for a stirring rendition of the Play School theme. In 2016, Play School celebrated 50 years on the air and had a month of celebrations, the format of the show is activities, songs and games with either host passing back to each other at the end of their segment, and frequently joining each other in activities. Each day the presenters look at the calendar to find out which day of the week it is, read a story, and look through the windows. From 1976 to 2000, they had a clock which was shaped like a rocket. Until 2000, the windows looked almost exactly like their British counterparts with a few slight differences and they changed the background behind the windows from black to white at the end of 1967 and they then changed it to light blue in 1985. Each theme were repeated twice a year on average for a period of six to seven years, as funding was limited, only 45 new episodes were made each year, which means that nine weekly blocks shown each year were new episodes, the rest repeats. In 2000, the show had a revamp, with the rocket and flower clocks. That was soon replaced by the Hickory Dickory Clock which featured clockwork resembling the Hickory Dickory nursery rhyme and that was soon replaced by the Train Clock which resembles a train station with a clock above it. The windows were also heavily changed and they were now built into a massive rotating prop which was built underneath the clock and controlled by one of the presenters pulling a lever back and forwards
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Tatum O'Neal
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Tatum Beatrice ONeal is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award and she also starred in The Bad News Bears, in 1976, followed by Nickelodeon, and Little Darlings. She is also known for being Michael Jacksons first girlfriend, in 1986, ONeal married professional tennis player John McEnroe, with whom she had three children. The couple separated in 1992 and were divorced in 1994, ONeal was born in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, California, to actors Ryan ONeal and Joanna Moore. Her brother, Griffin, was born in 1964, in 1967, her parents divorced and her father quickly remarried. Her fathers marriage to actress Leigh Taylor-Young produced Tatums half-brother, Patrick, Tatum has another half-brother, Redmond, from Ryan ONeals relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett. ONeals mother died of cancer in 1997 at age 63, after a career in which she appeared in such movies as Walk on the Wild Side. The youngest ever to win a competitive Academy Award, she turned 9 years old during filming in autumn 1972, ONeal played the role of Addie Loggins, a child con artist being tutored by a Depression-era grifter played by her father, Ryan. She appeared as the character in the Faerie Tale Theatre episode Goldilocks. She appeared in five films during the next 15 years. In the early 2000s, ONeal returned to acting with made guest appearances on Sex and the City,8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, and Law and Order, Criminal Intent. In 2005, ONeal began a role as Maggie Gavin on the firehouse drama series Rescue Me, portraying the unbalanced and lively sister of Tommy Gavin. In January 2006, she participated in the season of ABCs reality series Dancing with the Stars with professional partner Nick Kosovich. They were eliminated in the second round and she went on to do commentary for the series on Entertainment Tonight. From 2006 to 2007, she portrayed the vindictive and psychotic Blythe Hunter in the My Network TV drama Wicked Wicked Games and she appears opposite Nashawn Kearse and Vanessa L. Williams in the film My Brother. One of ONeals first public boyfriends was pop star Michael Jackson, Jackson described ONeal as his first love, and in a 2002 interview with Martin Bashir said that ONeal tried to seduce him, but he was terrified by the idea of sex. ONeal adamantly denied all of Jacksons claims in her 2004 autobiography, ONeals relationship with tennis player John McEnroe began in 1984 when she moved into his Central Park West condominium in New York City. The couple have three children, Kevin, Sean, and Emily and they separated in 1992 and were divorced in 1994
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Monkey Grip (novel)
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Monkey Grip is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, her first published book. It initially received a critical reception, but has now become accepted as a classic of modern Australian literature. A film based on the novel, also titled Monkey Grip, was released in 1982, the novel is set in inner city suburbs of Melbourne in the mid 1970s. Nora and her daughter live in a succession of share houses. She is in love with Javo, an addict, who repeatedly drifts out of Noras life. Di Gribble of McPhee Gribble, the books first publisher, wrote that the title of the referred to both a linking of hands and the monkey on your back of drug addiction. Monkey Grip initially met with a mixed reception and it is now recognised as a classic of modern Australian literature. In 1982, the novel was adapted to the film Monkey Grip directed by Ken Cameron from his own screenplay, the lead actors were Noni Hazlehurst and Colin Friels. Australian novels at culture. gov. au Helen Garners Monkey Grip, documentary about background and impact of the book Read an extract at Penguin Books Australia
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Malcolm (film)
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Malcolm is a 1986 Australian cult film comedy, written by the husband-and-wife team of David Parker and Nadia Tass, and directed by Nadia Tass. The film stars Colin Friels as Malcolm, a tram enthusiast who becomes involved with a pair of bank robbers. His co-stars are Lindy Davies and John Hargreaves, the film won the 1986 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, and seven other AFI awards including Best Script and Best Director. At the start of the film Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, socially awkward and shy, Malcolm is obsessed with trams, but he is also a mechanical genius whose modest inner-city cottage is fitted with a variety of remarkable gadgets. When his boss discovers that Malcolm has built himself a cut-down tram during work time and using work materials, with his mother dead and no other income, the local shop-owner advises him to take in a boarder, Frank. Franks brassy girlfriend Judith soon moves in with him, and Frank reveals that he is a petty criminal who has recently released from gaol. Despite their differences, the trio develop a friendship. The trio then devises a plot to steal the weekly $250,000 cash delivery from a major bank. They plant a set of armed, remote-controlled motorised robot rubbish bins inside the bank, when the guards cross the walkway with the cash on a trolley, they are bailed up by the robot bins. They manage to elude the police, but they are nearly caught when two officers on a routine patrol pull up beside them and ask them for an ice-cream. Frank speeds away, with the police in hot pursuit, however, when we see the front of the tram, it is revealed to be Malcolms custom-made mini-tram, with the trio and their loot aboard. In the final scene, Frank is leaving a bank in Lisbon and he then meets up with Malcolm and Jude at a local cafe, and as the film concludes they lay plans for another daring robbery. As revealed in the credits, the character of Malcolm was inspired by Nadia Tass late brother, John Tassopoulos. David Parker had never written a script before and he did it while working on location of Burke and Wills as a stills photographer. Channel Seven agreed to provide $175,000 as a pre sale, Film Victoria came in for $100,000, all of the gadgets in Malcolms house and the ingenious inventions used in the robbery sequences were devised by writer David Parker. The scenes of the exterior of Malcolms house were filmed at 23 Napoleon Street, the house has since been demolished and redeveloped with apartments. The interior scenes were filmed at a house in John Street, Flemington, a façade was constructed in Napoleon Street for the exterior scenes of the Milk Bar. The interior scenes were filmed at the milk bar located on Peel Street near Napoleon Street
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AACTA Awards
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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. The awards recognise excellence of professionals in the film and television industry and it is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards, the awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958 and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film, the AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. As of 2011, the Australian awards take place at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney and they were instituted in 1958, as a way to improve the impoverished state of Australian cinema, and was part of the Melbourne International Film Festival until 1972. Between 1958–1980, submitted films were presented with a gold, silver or bronze prize, and in some circumstances, a Grand Prix award, which was the highest honour a film could receive. Additionally, films were presented with a gold or silver medallion for technical achievements. Up until 1970, prizes were handed out in recognition of the film and production, rather than achievements of individual filmmakers and crafts people. In 1977 feature film categories became competitive, while non-feature films continued to be awarded the gold, silver and bronze prizes until 1981, in 1976 the awards were broadcast live on television for the first time on the Nine Network at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne. In 1986 television categories were introduced, presenting awards for mini-series and telefeatures before expanding to dramas, in June 2011, the AFI announced an industry consultation for an Australian Academy. The aim of the Academy is to create awareness for Australian film in local and international markets, the name of the new Academy was revealed on 18 August 2011 as the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, with the awards renamed to the AACTA Awards. The date change was made to align the awards with the awards season. At the time of the inception, a jury of five judges, composed of film critics and filmmakers. In 1976, the system was replaced by a peer voting process for feature films which would allow public members the right to vote in the Best Film category. The nominees and winners were later peer-voted by a jury which was made up of representatives from all industry crafts, including members of guilds, who have a professional membership with the AFI. When the AFI announced the launch of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, the fifteen Chapters consist of professionals from industry guilds and organisations including actors, producers, directors and screenwriters. All television and non-feature film awards, and feature film pre-selection are determined by juries, members of the Australian Film Institute are eligible to vote in the Best Short Fiction Film, Best Short Animation and Audience Choice award categories only. The votes are audited by accounting firm Ernst and Young from 2011, throughout the history of the awards there have been several differently designed awards given to winners
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Ground Zero (1987 film)
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It stars actors Colin Friels, Jack Thompson and Indigenous activist Burnum Burnum. Ground Zero was produced in 1986 and released in 1987, IMDb, and the DVD release of the film, both credit Michael Pattinson and Bruce Myles as producers, but only Pattinson is named in other sources. Pattinson went on to several other Australian feature films, including Wendy Cracked a Walnut, Secrets, One Crazy Night. Myles did not go on to directing, but acted in numerous subsequent Australian films. Ground Zero was made for A$7 million, and filmed on location in Coober Pedy and Woomera in South Australia, sound for the film was created by a team including Roger Savage and Gary Wilkins, who had both worked on the Mad Max series of feature movies. In the 1950s, the British government had conducted a number of tests at a site called Maralinga in outback South Australia. It was subsequently alleged that during tests, armed forces personnel. This led eventually to an inquiry, the McClelland Royal Commission. The inquiry attracted a lot of publicity, and ultimately a deal was struck with the United Kingdom to fund rehabilitation of the test sites, Ground Zero was made immediately following this inquiry. While fictional, it explores the idea that the exposure to radiation of Indigenous people and army personnel may have been deliberate, or known about at the time, despite its success at the 1987 AFI Awards, reviews of the film were mixed. Pointing out that the film contained elements of action thriller and political commentary, reviewers were unsure that it did either with great success. However, Janet Maslin, reviewing the film for the New York Times, wrote of taut, clever conspiracy-theory thrillers, Ground Zero has been rated at 6.4 stars out of 10 on IMDb. Ground Zero was shown on Indigenous television station Imparja as a tribute to Burnum Burnum after his death in 1997, cinema of Australia Ground Zero at the Internet Movie Database Ground Zero at Oz Movies
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Darkman
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Darkman is a 1990 American superhero film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi. It is based on a short story Raimi wrote that paid homage to Universals horror films of the 1930s. Unable to secure the rights to either The Shadow or Batman, Raimi decided to create his own superhero and it was produced by Robert Tapert, and was written by Raimi, his brother Ivan Raimi and Chuck Pfarrer. Darkman was generally received by critics and performed well at the box office, grossing almost $49 million worldwide. This financial success spawned two sequels, Darkman II, The Return of Durant and Darkman III, Die Darkman Die, as well as comic books, video games. Over the years, Darkman has become regarded as a cult film, scientist Dr. Peyton Westlake is developing a new type of synthetic skin to help acid-burn victims. He is frustrated with a flaw that causes the skin to rapidly disintegrate after 99 minutes and his girlfriend, attorney Julie Hastings, discovers the Bellasarious Memorandum, an incriminating document proving that developer Louis Strack has been bribing members of the zoning commission. Before she leaves, Westlake asks her to him. When she confronts Strack, he confesses, but shows Julie what hes been planning and he also warns Julie to keep her guard up as mobster Robert Durant wants the document. Back at Westlakes lab, Dr. Westlake is conducting an experiment when the lights go out, Dr. Westlake and his assistant Yakatito, are astounded to find the synthetic skin is stable after 100 minutes. Westlake deduces that the skin is photosensitive. Their joy is short lived, when Durant and his crew show up and demand the Bellasarious Memorandum, while searching for the document, Durant and his gang kill Yakatito. They proceed to beat Westlake, burn his hands and dip his face in acid, after they find the document, they rig the lab to explode- leaving Julie to watch the explosion. The blast throws Westlake through the roof, into the river, thought to be dead, he survives but is hideously burned. He is brought to a hospital and subjected to a treatment which cuts the nerves of the spinothalamic tract. However, he loses his tactile sensation. The loss of sensory input gives him enhanced strength due to adrenal overload and keeps his injuries from incapacitating him. After mourning the loss of his lab and realizing how badly burnt he is, the process is long, and in the meantime, Westlake plots revenge against Durant and his men
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Logie Awards
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The Logie Awards is an annual institution celebrating Australian television, which have been since 1960. Coined by Graham Kennedy after he won the first Star of the Year award in 1959, the name Logie awards honours John Logie Baird, who invented television as a practical medium. Awards are given in categories, but the most widely publicized award is the Gold Logie. The latest ceremony, the Logie Awards of 2016, was held on 8 May 2016, the first awards saw no formal ceremony, they were presented on 15 January 1959 on an episode of In Melbourne Tonight. Only Melbourne television personalities were nominated and awards were given in eight categories, the following year, Kennedy coined the name Logie Awards. In the same year, the first Gold Logie, considered by some to be equivalent to the Star of the Year Award presented in 1959, was presented, the Logie statuette was designed by Alec De Lacy, chief designer for Melbourne-based trophy makers KG Luke Ltd. According to Bert Newton, who was hosting that year, it no one was deemed worthy enough to receive it. He pleaded with the producers to never be put in that position again, many of the Logie categories are voted by the readers of TV Week magazine using coupons in the magazine and online forms. Thus, the majority of Logie Awards are fan awards, the readership of TV Week is a relatively small proportion of the Australian population, and skews heavily to teenage girls. The Most Outstanding categories are voted on by a jury comprising members of the Australian TV industry and are thus industry awards, in 2008, internet votes could be cast for the first time without having to buy a copy of the TV Week magazine. To be eligible to receive a Logie, a programme must be Australian produced, although in other years there has been a Logie for Most Popular Foreign Programme, this award was not part of the 2007 or 2008 awards. People eligible for a Logie must have appeared on an Australian-produced show that was broadcast on Australian television in the previous year, the winners do not have to be Australian - New Zealander John Clarke and American Michael Cole have won Logies. There are long-held suspicions that network publicists engage in mass voting to rig the results and they did so by getting their small readership to buy copies of TV Week and vote for Enus for the award. While the attempt failed, their failure gives some cause for the widespread derision in the industry towards the popular-vote awards and they do, however, have their own community television awards, known as the Antennas. The ABCs Media Watch program first reported the story on Monday 9 March 2009, the Logies ceremony is televised, and has generally become more elaborate in recent years. The awards have for the past 11 years been held in a ballroom at Crown Melbourne, dinner is served just before the ceremony and drinks are served during the ceremony. Bert Newton has been associated with the history of the Logies. As well as winning the Gold Logie four times, he hosted the awards a total of 19 times and he has also performed in well-received guest appearances
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Chemotherapy
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Chemotherapy is a category of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen. Chemotherapy may be given with an intent, or it may aim to prolong life or to reduce symptoms. Chemotherapy is one of the categories of the medical discipline specifically devoted to pharmacotherapy for cancer. Systemic therapy is used in conjunction with other modalities that constitute local therapy for cancer such as radiation therapy. Traditional chemotherapeutic agents are cytotoxic by means of interfering with cell division, to a large extent, chemotherapy can be thought of as a way to damage or stress cells, which may then lead to cell death if apoptosis is initiated. This results in the most common side-effects of chemotherapy, myelosuppression, mucositis, because of the effect on immune cells, chemotherapy drugs often find use in a host of diseases that result from harmful overactivity of the immune system against self. These include rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, vasculitis, there are a number of strategies in the administration of chemotherapeutic drugs used today. Chemotherapy may be given with an intent or it may aim to prolong life or to palliate symptoms. Induction chemotherapy is the first line treatment of cancer with a chemotherapeutic drug and this type of chemotherapy is used for curative intent. Combined modality chemotherapy is the use of drugs with other treatments, such as surgery, radiation therapy. Consolidation chemotherapy is given after remission in order to prolong the overall disease-free time, the drug that is administered is the same as the drug that achieved remission. Intensification chemotherapy is identical to consolidation chemotherapy but a different drug than the induction chemotherapy is used, combination chemotherapy involves treating a patient with a number of different drugs simultaneously. The drugs differ in their mechanism and side-effects, the biggest advantage is minimising the chances of resistance developing to any one agent. Also, the drugs can often be used at lower doses, neoadjuvant chemotherapy is given prior to a local treatment such as surgery, and is designed to shrink the primary tumor. It is also given to cancers with a risk of micrometastatic disease. Adjuvant chemotherapy is given after a local treatment and it can be used when there is little evidence of cancer present, but there is risk of recurrence. It is also useful in killing any cancerous cells that have spread to parts of the body. These micrometastases can be treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and can reduce relapse rates caused by these disseminated cells, maintenance chemotherapy is a repeated low-dose treatment to prolong remission
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Sydney Theatre Company
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Sydney Theatre Company is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company performs in The Wharf Theatre at Dawes Point in The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company was formed in December 1978, following the closure of The Old Tote Theatre Company the month before. Butcher established its identity and managerial structure, and proposed the name. With John Clark as the Artistic Adviser of the first season, the first production, by The Paris Company, was A Cheery Soul, by Patrick White, Australias Nobel Laureate for Literature, directed by Jim Sharman, featuring Robyn Nevin as Miss Docker. In June 1979, Richard Wherrett, then one of Nimrod Theatres co-Artistic Directors, was appointed Artistic Director of STC to plan and organise activities for the 1980 season. The first STC-produced play was The Sunny South,1 January 1980, by George Darrell, with music by Terence Clarke, directed by Richard Wherrett, in its early years the company operated out of several rented premises around the city, producing 38 productions in five separate venues. Elizabeth Butcher, STC Administrator, was given the task of finding one location that could all the activities of the company. The Wharf was officially handed over to STC in a ceremony on 13 December 1984. The first STC production in The Wharf Theatre,17 January 1985, was Late Arrivals, by Pamela van Amstel, the play was part of a season of one-act plays called Shorts at the Wharf. Directors working regularly for STC include Gale Edwards, Barrie Kosky, David Berthold, Neil Armfield, Benedict Andrews, many Australian actors who would later find wider success both locally and internationally such as Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush and Toni Collette have established their careers in STC productions. The Sydney Theatre Company operates out of a site of the wharf area of Sydney Harbour. The program goes beyond infrastructure projects to include employees, environmentally responsible theatre production, community engagement, the program won two Green Globe Awards. Culture of Sydney Wharf Revue Meyrick, Julian, see How It Runs Nimrod and the New Wave. Sydney, Currency Press in association with Cambridge University Press, the floor of heaven my life in theatre. Sydney Theatre Company website Greening the Wharf project video explanation
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Macbeth
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Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I and it was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is his shortest tragedy. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland, consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness, the events of the tragedy are usually associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play is cursed, over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It has been adapted to film, television, opera, novels, comics, the play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth. Macbeth, the Kings kinsman, is praised for his bravery, in the following scene, Macbeth and Banquo discuss the weather and their victory. As they wander onto a heath, the Three Witches enter, though Banquo challenges them first, they address Macbeth, hailing him as Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and that he shall be King hereafter. Macbeth appears to be stunned to silence, when Banquo asks of his own fortunes, the witches respond paradoxically, saying that he will be less than Macbeth, yet happier, less successful, yet more. He will father a line of kings though he himself will not be one, while the two men wonder at these pronouncements, the witches vanish, and another thane, Ross, arrives and informs Macbeth of his newly bestowed title, Thane of Cawdor. The first prophecy is fulfilled, and Macbeth, previously skeptical. King Duncan welcomes and praises Macbeth and Banquo, and declares that he spend the night at Macbeths castle at Inverness. Macbeth sends a message ahead to his wife, Lady Macbeth, Lady Macbeth suffers none of her husbands uncertainty and wishes him to murder Duncan in order to obtain kingship. When Macbeth arrives at Inverness, she overrides all of her husbands objections by challenging his manhood and he and Lady Macbeth plan to get Duncans two chamberlains drunk so that they will black out, the next morning they will blame the chamberlains for the murder. They will be defenseless as they remember nothing. While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth stabs him, despite his doubts and he is so shaken that Lady Macbeth has to take charge
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Presidency of George W. Bush
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The presidency of George W. Bush began on January 20,2001 at noon Eastern Standard Time, when George W. Bush was inaugurated as President of the United States. Bushs presidency ended on January 20,2009, a Republican, he took office following a very close win in the 2000 presidential election over Democratic nominee Al Gore, the then–incumbent Vice President. Bush, the 43rd United States president, is the son of the 41st president, Bush was re-elected in 2004, defeating his Democratic opponent John Kerry by a slim margin. He was succeeded in office by Democrat Barack Obama, who won the 2008 presidential election, upon taking office, Bush pushed through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program and the No Child Left Behind Act, a major education bill. He also pushed for socially conservative efforts, such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and that same month, he signed into law the controversial Patriot Act in order to strengthen security and allow for greater surveillance. In 2003, Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq, asserting that Iraq possessed stockpiles of weapons of destruction in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Later that year, he signed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, Bush pushed for Social Security and immigration reform, but both efforts failed. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continued, and in 2007 he launched a surge of troops in Iraq. The Bush administrations response to Hurricane Katrina and the dismissal of U. S. attorneys controversy earned wide coverage, and his second term saw a drop in his approval ratings. The financial crisis of 2007–2008 dominated his last days in office as policymakers looked to avert a major economic disaster, Bushs presidency is frequently ranked by historians as among the worst in American history. W. Vice President Dick Cheney served as Secretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush, Bush placed a high value on personal loyalty and, as a result, his administration had high message discipline. He maintained a style of management. Im confident in my management style, Im a delegator because I trust the people Ive asked to join the team. That makes it easier to be President, he said in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC in December 2003, critics alleged, however, that Bush was willing to overlook mistakes made by loyal subordinates. There was only one non-Republican in Bushs cabinet, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, Mineta resigned from Bushs cabinet on July 7,2006 to pursue other challenges. Mary Peters, a Republican, was nominated and confirmed to succeed him as Transportation Secretary, at least one other non-Republican was apparently offered a position in the administration but declined. CNN reported that in the transition to his term, Bush offered the positions of Ambassador to the United Nations. In 2006, Bush replaced long-time chief of staff Andrew Card with Joshua Bolten and made major staff, on November 8,2006, Bush announced plans to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with former CIA Director Robert Gates
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British nuclear tests at Maralinga
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British nuclear tests at Maralinga occurred between 1956 and 1963 at the Maralinga site, part of the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia and about 800 kilometres north-west of Adelaide. A total of seven tests were performed, with approximate yields ranging from 1 to 27 kilotonnes of TNT. Two major test series were conducted at the Maralinga site, Operation Buffalo, the site was also used for hundreds of minor trials, many of which were intended to investigate the effects of fire or non-nuclear explosions on atomic weapons. The site was contaminated with radioactive materials and an initial cleanup was attempted in 1967 and it recommended another cleanup, which was completed in 2000 at a cost of $108 million. Debate continued over the safety of the site and the health effects on the traditional Aboriginal owners of the land. In 1994, the Australian Government paid compensation amounting to $13.5 million to the local Maralinga Tjarutja people, the Maralinga tests were subject to extreme secrecy, but by the late 1970s there was a marked change in how the Australian media covered the British nuclear tests. Some journalists investigated the subject and political scrutiny became more intense, journalist Brian Toohey ran a series of stories in the Australian Financial Review in October 1978, based in part on a leaked Cabinet submission. In June 1993, New Scientist journalist Ian Anderson wrote an article titled Britains dirty deeds at Maralinga, in 2007, Maralinga, Australias Nuclear Waste Cover-up by Alan Parkinson documented the unsuccessful clean-up at Maralinga. Popular songs about the Maralinga story have been written by Paul Kelly, Midnight Oil, Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe and Alistair Hulett. On 3 October 1952, the United Kingdom tested its first nuclear weapon, named Hurricane, a year later the first nuclear test on the Australian mainland was Totem 1 at Emu Field in the Great Victoria Desert, South Australia, on 15 October 1953. Totem 2 followed two weeks later on 27 October, the Supply Minister, Howard Beale, stated in 1955 that England has the know how, we have the open spaces, much technical skill and a great willingness to help the Motherland. Between us we should help to build the defences of the free world, the British government formally requested a permanent test facility on 30 October 1953. The new site was announced in May 1955 and it was developed as a joint, co-funded facility between the British and Australian governments. Prior to selection, the Maralinga site was inhabited by the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal people, many were relocated to a new settlement at Yalata, and attempts were made to curtail access to the Maralinga site. Two major test series were conducted at the Maralinga site, Operation Buffalo, Operation Buffalo commenced on 27 September 1956. The operation consisted of the testing of four nuclear devices, codenamed One Tree, Marcoo, Kite and Breakaway respectively. One Tree and Breakaway were exploded from towers, Marcoo was exploded at ground level and this was the first drop of a British nuclear weapon from an aircraft. The fallout from these tests was measured using sticky paper, air sampling devices, all four Buffalo tests were criticised by the 1985 McClelland Royal Commission, which concluded that they were fired under inappropriate conditions
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Bastard Boys
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Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute, the script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Queensland Premiers Literary Award for Best Television Script. However, a number of characters were invented and events were considerably compressed for dramatic purposes, notably, the waterside workers portrayed in the drama were composites, based on interviews with many waterside workers. Journalist Michael Duffy described the series as the most blatant union propaganda and was critical that 80 per cent of the story is told from the point of view. Criticism has also emerged from members of the union movement. According to Phillip Adams, Bill Kelty was concerned that no researcher, writer or producer - spoke to him about the dispute or his role in it, yet they havent hesitated to put words into their Keltys mouth that the original Kelty never said. Chris Corrigans brother Derek Corrigan has disputed claims that the broadcasting of Bastard Boys was timed to support Greg Combets run for politics, list of Australian television series Bastard Boys at the Internet Movie Database Bastard Boys at TV. com
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Hoodwink (1981 film)
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Hoodwink is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Claude Whatham and written by Ken Quinnell. It stars John Hargreaves and Judy Davis, the film is based on the true story of a well-publicized Australian con artist. It was nominated for eight Australian Film Institute Awards, with Davis winning the Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, martin Stang, a bank robber finds himself behind bars and decides to pursue another con job, his escape. He does this by attempting to convince authorities that he is blind. Along his journey he befriends a sexually-repressed clergymans wife, Sarah, the pair become intimate during Martins day release but his con is complicated when he reveals to Sarah that he is not in fact blind. He told his story to literary agent Rosemary Cresswell, who was doing work for the Department of Corrective Services. Several directors were approached to make the movie but turned it down, including Bruce Beresford, Michael Thornhill, Phillip Noyce, eventually British director Claude Whatham was imported, which was highly controversial because the movie was made with funds from the Australian tax payer. The film was not a success at the box office. However Carl Synnerdahl was released from prison on Errol Sullivans bond after serving 21 years in prison and he remarried and had three children
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The Coolangatta Gold (film)
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The Coolangatta Gold is a 1984 Australian film which led to the establishment of the iron man race The Coolangatta Gold. Joe Lucas is determined that his son Adam becomes an iron man. He neglects his younger son, Steve, who is a band manager and enjoys karate. The leading iron man event is The Coolangatta Road, an competition for $20,000 prize money. The favourite for this event is champion iron man Grant Kenny, kennys father beat Joe Lucas for the iron man title in 1960. Steve falls in love with a dancer, Kerri, who inspires him to compete with his brother in The Coolangatta Gold. They wanted to do a love story in the sporting genre. However, after a few days it became obvious they wanted to do something more ambitious, auzins and Schreck formed a company, Angoloro Productions, with John Weiley as a third partner in December 1982. They then approached Hoyts Edgley who agreed to finance within 24 hours, the film performed disappointingly at the box office. Jonathan Chissick, managing director of Hoyts, said I thought it was the best script to come out of Australia, I dont want to point my finger but there was obviously a failure. The Coolangatta Gold was parodied by the Australian comedy troupe The D-Generation in the 1993 season of The Late Show, the sketch The Last Aussie Auteur, A Tribute to Filmmaker Warren Perso features excerpts from various Australian films, one being a box-office flop titled The Bermagui Bronze. The Coolangatta Gold was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in November 2012, the DVD is compatible with all region codes and includes special features such as a photo gallery, the making of The Coolangatta Gold and a Good Morning Australia segment. The music recording of The Coolangatta Gold, Original Soundtrack Recording was produced by Ashley Irwin, the Coolangatta Gold at the Internet Movie Database The Coolangatta Gold at TCMDB The Coolangatta Gold at Oz Movies
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High Tide (1987 film)
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High Tide is a 1987 Australian drama film starring Judy Davis, from a script by Laura Jones, about the mother-daughter bond, directed by Gillian Armstrong. Armstrong reported that when she began work on High Tide she pinned a note above her desk, Jan Adele plays Lillis mother-in-law Bet, in her film debut. Two-time Academy Award nominee Judy Davis plays Lili, a singer for an Elvis Presley impersonator. She is stranded in a coastal town and befriends teenager Ally without knowing she is the daughter left behind as an infant after her husbands sudden death. Lilli is one of three backing singers for a touring Elvis impersonator until she is fired, then, left alone at the beginning of winter she is stranded in a ramshackle beach town on the windswept coast of New South Wales. This remote, working class, tourist-town has a sense of rootlessness. The people survive by changing their occupations with the seasons and work hard in small businesses, here, stuck in the Mermaid Caravan Park, she encounters her teenage daughter Ally. When Lillis young surfer husband had died, she felt lost, she gave up her baby to her mother-in-law, Lilli has been drifting ever since, and getting wasted. Bet is a rowdy, belligerent woman, devoted to Ally—she has taken care of her for 13 years, Lilli has an immediate rapport with the lonely Ally even before she knows that Ally is her daughter, and after she knows, she cant take her eyes off her. But Lillis terrified of taking on the responsibilities of motherhood, when we first see Ally she is in the water, surfing is—her refuge from the noisy junkiness of life with Bet. Bet isnt a monster, shes simply the person to be raising the pensive Ally, whose emotions are hidden away. The drama is in our feeling that Lilli must not leave her daughter in the embrace of this raucous old trouper, Judy Davis as Lillie Jan Adele as Bet Claudia Karvan as Ally Frankie J. They wanted to something contemporary that had a small cast. The script was written and financed to be about a man who had abandoned his daughter. Her husband suggested she change the character to a woman, which would not only be different, Armstrong was reluctant as she did not want to make another film about a woman, but eventually changed her mind. Jones and Levy agreed with the choice, Judy Davis was approached even before the film was rewritten and she was involved in further drafts. In 1987 the film was nominated for seven AFI Awards and won in the Best Actress in a Lead Role, in 1989 Judy Davis won the NSFC Best Actress award for her role. High Tide grossed $206,185 at the box office in Australia, Cinema of Australia Murray, Scott, ed. Australian Cinema
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Class Action (film)
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Class Action is a 1991 American drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted. Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star, Laurence Fishburne, Colin Friels, Fred Dalton Thompson, the film was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival. The story is about a lawsuit concerning injuries caused by a defective automobile, the suit takes on a personal dimension because the injured plaintiffs attorney, Jedediah Tucker Ward discovers that the automobile manufacturers attorney Maggie Ward is his estranged daughter. The central premise of the film is roughly analogous to the surrounding the Ford Pinto. A1977 article in Mother Jones alleged Ford was aware of the flaw, refused to pay for a redesign. The magazine obtained a cost-benefit analysis that it said Ford had used to compare the cost of repairs against the cost of settlements for deaths, injuries, the document became known as the Ford Pinto Memo. The film received positive reviews, it currently holds a 75% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It holds a 58/100 on Metacritic, indicating mixed or average reviews
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Dingo (film)
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Dingo is a 1991 Australian film directed by Rolf de Heer and written by Marc Rosenberg. It traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson, a guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris, to meet his idol. In the films opening sequence, Davis and his band unexpectedly land on an airstrip in the Australian outback. The performance was one of Daviss last on film, christian Faure was the assistant director of the movie. Davis, who plays the role of Cross, provided the soundtrack in cooperation with Michel Legrand. Dingo grossed $132,500 at the box office in Australia, Dingo was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in July 2005. The DVD is compatible with all region codes and includes features such as a new 5.1 channel soundtrack, trailers. Cinema of Australia South Australian Film Corporation Official website Dingo at the Internet Movie Database Dingo at the National Film and Sound Archive
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Police Rescue
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Police Rescue was an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC, apart from the 61 episodes, there was a 90-minute pilot episode as well as a feature film in 1994, starring Zoe Carides. The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney, the 90-minute telemovie established the background of the protagonist of the series, Sergeant Mickey McClintock. Several issues were raised in the pilot, such as discrimination, sexism. The plot evolved around the entrance of the first woman member to the Police Rescue Squad, Constable Georgia Rattray, the telemovie was well received and spawned the series of Police Rescue, which carried on shortly after the pilot. In 1993, ABC Television released selected episodes from Series 1, the 1989 pilot episode was released the previous year
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Stark (miniseries)
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Stark is a 1993 British-Australian television miniseries, based on the bestselling novel Stark by comedian Ben Elton. The three-episode series, directed by Nadia Tass, was a coproduction between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It starred Ben Elton and Jacqueline McKenzie, the budget for the series was A$7 million, with most of the money coming from the BBC. Elton wrote the script adapted from his own novel, as well as taking the role as whinging Pom CD. Desert scenes, which make up much of the episodes, were filmed in. Stark was first aired by the ABC in Australia over two nights on 11 and 12 August, the series did not air in the United Kingdom until it appeared on BBC1 on Wednesday nights from 8–22 December. The main changes from the plot of the novel were the extent of the Stark Consipiracys plan, in the series, Lord de Quincy intends to scuttle a fleet of leper ships carrying toxic waste, to actually hasten the extinction of the human species. Sly boards the rocket with Rachel, who has fallen in love him. In an interview included on the DVD edition, Elton states that change was suggested by producer Michael Wearing. Several of the characters names are also changed in the series, Sly Moorcock was renamed Sly Morgan. Stark at the Internet Movie Database Stark at TV. com Variety Review
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A Good Man in Africa
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A Good Man in Africa is a 1994 film, based on William Boyds 1981 novel A Good Man in Africa and directed by Bruce Beresford. Bruce Beresford did not remember the film with fondness, God and that was the worst film experience I ever had. It was cast wrong, the crew was all strange and we were filming in the wrong place. We filmed in South Africa, it was set in West Africa, which is like shooting in Alaska when it’s set in New Orleans. And I realized that although the novel that it’s based on is terribly funny, I think on about the second day I realized it was never going to work, because the scenes don’t link. Focus Features released an Amazon. com exclusive DVD of the film on January 11,2010, a Good Man in Africa at the Internet Movie Database A Good Man in Africa at Box Office Mojo A Good Man in Africa at Rotten Tomatoes
