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Talking heads get together for Club Veg’s Vic Davies

July 20, 2009
Vic Davies, former Club Veg radio star, is fighting inoperable cancer

THE entertainment industry is holding a fund-raiser for former Club Veg radio star Vic Davies, who was diagnosed with inoperable cancer just two months ago. Davies received the diagnosis of lung cancer just before his 55th birthday but the disease has spread to other organs. His wife, Jodie, has quit her job to care for […]

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Russell Crowe’s latest film stunt goes slightly wrong

July 20, 2009
Russell Crowe on a break between scenes in Robin Hood

TWO-time Oscar winner Russell Crowe has injured himself on the set of his latest film when a stunt “went slightly wrong”. The 45-year-old actor, who is known for doing his own stunts and throwing himself into his roles, badly bruised his heels last Thursday after jumping from a port cullis (I’ll explain that in a […]

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Julie Goodwin is the Susan Boyle of MasterChef Australia

July 20, 2009
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They said she couldn’t do it and  so the wonderful Julie Goodwin went and proved the critics wrong. Goodwin, 38, is the winner of the inaugural series of the Australian reality TV cooking show MasterChef. So much for the naysayers, the newspaper pundits (one of whom declared today “the fix is in” if Goodwin won) and […]

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Actor Robert Redford acts his age and marries a 50something

July 16, 2009
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Iconic actor Robert Redford broke the mould on the weekend and did what few men of his advanced years, elevated status and deep pockets do – he married a woman in her 50s. Shock, horror! Finally, an actor acting his age. Redford, who is 72, tied the knot with his girlfriend of 13 years, Sibylle […]

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Is Nicole Kidman box office poison?

July 10, 2009
Nicole Kidman

You’ve got to pity Academy Award winning actress Nicole Kidman. The 42-year-old actress has a permanent target on her chest and the latest to take aim is influential Hollywood reporter Nikki Finke. In her must-read DeadlineHollywoodDaily website, Finke has attacked Kidman for daring to change her American publicist after a professional relationship that lasted 15 […]

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Major General Jim Molan – Australian Thinker for 2009

July 9, 2009
Major General Jim Mola

This is good news, but news you won’t read in the papers. Major General Jim Molan AO, DSC (retired), has been named the Australian Thinker of the Year for 2009 by the international School of Thinking. Molan is the author of Running the War in Iraq, published earlier this year by HarperCollins Australia (which also published my […]

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