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LAUNCHING his film Kill Bill in Sydney a few years back, Quentin Tarantino paid tribute to one of his favourite Australian directors, Brian Trenchard-Smith. The assembled bigwigs from what's left of the local ...
Perhaps the least lionized of the Australian New Wave filmmakers, Bruce Beresford has developed a reputation for drawing extraordinary performances from his actors, as well as enjoying great success making ...
Peter Craven hopes a new Working Dog series will be erudite and irreverent. A FEW WEEKS AGO as I was sitting watching John Stanton do his remarkable impersonation of Shakespeare's Kings of England And When They ...
“I went to see her and she was with a lot of other old ladies, many in stages of dementia, being - I thought - carelessly looked after”
Madge Allsop gets the treatment from an unnamed nurse on her 1994 visit to Palmerston North hospital. via Manawatu Evening Standard
Humphries pays tribute to sidekick Perry
“Later, she said to me, 'Who was that funny man? He seemed very nervous'. She didn't know who he was.”
Barry Humphries has paid tribute to late sidekick Emily Perry. The Devon-born actress, who played Dame Edna Everage's silent bridesmaid Madge Allsop, died earlier this week at the age of 100. via Digital Spy
THE elderly English actress who played Dame Edna Everage's sidekick Madge Allsop has died. via News.com.au
“When THE NEW YORK TIMES tells you to close, you close.”
At one time hailed as the strongest proponent of Dada in Australia, the multi-talented Barry Humphries has excelled as a character actor in Europe and Australia and has become one of the best loved landscape ... via Hollywood.com
“Saturday Night Live") is 42. Actress Jeri Ryan ("Boston Public”
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 17-23: Feb. 17: Actor Hal Holbrook is 83. via The Elements
Dame Edna told to rest after surgery
“He has been told by his doctors to take a six month rest.”
DAME Edna Everage's creator, Barry Humphries, has been ordered to rest for six months because of complications over appendix surgery. via The Austrailian
“I'm funny? Funny how? I'm a clownfish, I amuse you, I make you laugh?”
Walt Disney Home Video presents Finding Nemo "Fish aren't meant to be in a box, kid. via DigitallyOBSESSED.com
Dame Edna lights up Parky's farewell
“I was told to pick a wish list and I put down these names and every single one of them is here”
DAME Edna Everage joined a star-studded line-up as Michael Parkinson, the king of British celebrity interviewing, recorded his final television show last night. via News.com.au
possibly the worst british film ever
“The clubs were renamed GOLDEN CITY and are now the centre of Sludgely's cultural life'. Jokes: Rodney: 'Who else do you know who isn't dead or Australian?”
Bruce Beresford's Side by Side is a 1975 comedy about two clubs, the Golden Nugget and Sound City. via Lorraine Crescent