Jack Thompson News

Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home.

As searches for survivors from Tuesday's deadly earthquake and tsunami continue in the Samoas, people in the Northwest are growing increasingly concerned about family members thousands of miles away.

The comments were made last night alongside actor Jack Thompson who launched Buckley's memoirs, Behind a Velvet Light Trap , in front of an audience of about 130 people at NSW's Mitchell library.

Harriett Blake and Jack Thompson added to their respective hardware collections on Sunday winning the womena s and mena s Kenora Golf and Country Club club championships, while Ryan Landon won the juvenile championship.

IT HAS been nearly 25 years since Jack Thompson played Robert O'Hara Burke on Australian movie screens, but the story of Burke and Wills' ill-fated exploration of the continent continues to resonate with him.

Eye opener...Jack Thompson in Wake In Fright. REDISCOVERING Wake In Fright is less like running into an old friend than someone you feared as a child.