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About 70 000 stranded passengers have been hoping a workplace regulator would end the grounding of Qantas Airways’s fleet over an industrial row.
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/ 1 February 2011
Residents and tourists evacuated coastal areas of Australia’s Queensland state on Tuesday as a monster cyclone intensified to "deadly" proportions.
Through wars, disasters and coups, foreign correspondent Kate Webb chronicled the turbulent birth of modern Asia, becoming a media legend who had the eerie experience of reading her own obituary. Webb, who died of cancer on May 13 at 64, covered many of Asia’s seminal events of the last four decades with a keen eye for the real story.
The hit United States television drama about life in a fictional White House, <i>The West Wing</i>, will end its seven-year run in May, losing its battle against declining audiences. Marc Lavine reports.
Hollywood will make a transcendent leap onto the internet on Tuesday when the Oscar-winning <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> becomes the first blockbuster available for permanent download on the same day its DVDs hit the shelves. Two competing download services announced on Monday they will offer downloads of such hit films as last year’s Oscar-nominated <i>King Kong</i> and <i>Memoirs of a Geisha</i>.
Top United States film director John McTiernan, the maker of such blockbusters as the Die Hard movies, was charged on Monday in connection with a fast-spreading Hollywood wiretapping scandal. McTiernan (55) is the 14th person to be charged in a snowballing criminal investigation that has threatened to envelop some major stars over alleged phone bugging.
Faded pop superstar Michael Jackson was on Friday crowned as the United States’s most foolish person in 2006, narrowly beating out trigger-happy US Vice-President Dick Cheney for the title. The 47-year-old "King of Pop" snatched the dishonour for the fourth year running.
Tension reached fever pitch as Hollywood began the final countdown to Sunday’s Oscars, with a posse of ”serious” films, led by Brokeback Mountain, set to overrun the big night. As workers frantically put the finishing touches on preparations for the 78th annual Academy Awards, which start with the legendary red carpet celebrity fashion show, the anxious nominees are crossing their fingers.
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/ 22 February 2006
Oscar has developed a social conscience this year, with weighty real-life themes, ranging from ethics in big business and media to racial tensions, dominating the movies vying for the big prizes. ”All of these films reflect the concerns that the filmmakers have for our society,” said Marty Grove, columnist for the Hollywood Reporter.
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/ 30 January 2006
Capote star Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon and the drama Crash stole top honours at Sunday’s Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, dealing a blow to Oscar favourite Brokeback Mountain. Witherspoon won best actress for her role as singer June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, while Hoffman was named best actor for his portrayal of United States author Truman Capote.