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/ 23 January 2007
Fred Khumalo wonders whether the Zulu language will ever lose its inhibitions.
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/ 12 January 2007
James Bond will take on Her Majesty at the British film awards, with Casino Royale garnering nine Bafta nominations on Friday, just one behind frontrunner The Queen. Stephen Frears was on the best director shortlist for The Queen, and Helen Mirren, an Oscar favourite in the leading role, was a best actress nominee for her portrayal of a confused monarch.
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/ 10 September 2006
The jury at the Venice Film Festival left critics and journalists perplexed and in some cases vexed when it awarded top prize to China’s Still Life. Jia Zhang-Ke’s picture, about two people searching for their partners as villages and towns are submerged by the giant Three Gorges Dam project in China, was introduced as a surprise entry.
Madonna feels responsible for the children of the world and has found herself a ”big, big project” to help orphans in Malawi. Gwyneth Paltrow declares ”I am African” in a new advertisement for a charity working in Africa. The continent has long been a favourite destination for celebrity campaigners, going back to 1954 when Danny Kaye became Unicef’s goodwill ambassador.
Music television is the endangered species of the pop world, and is learning the hard way that it must adapt to the internet age, or die. Britain’s Top of the Pops, the world’s longest-running weekly music show, will be declared extinct on Sunday when it is broadcast for the last time on BBC.
The world’s largest auction houses have seen sales surge in the first half of the year, boosted by record prices for rare paintings and increased interest from buyers in emerging markets like China and Russia. Privately-held Christie’s said on Monday it earned a record £1,2-billion (,1-billion) in worldwide sales in the first six months of the year.