Comedian Red Buttons, winner of a best-supporting-role Oscar for <i>Sayonara</i> (1958) with Marlon Brando, died in Los Angeles on Thursday at 87, his spokesperson said. Buttons, whose real name was Aaron Chwatt, died of circulation problems that he had suffered from for several years.
World-renowned mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has died in the American state of New Mexico after a years-long battle with breast cancer, opera officials said there on Saturday. Lieberson was known internationally as a captivating "arch-maverick" of an opera singer.
Mary Watson’s short story, <i>Jungfrau</i> (Young Woman) has won her the Caine Prize for African writing.
<b>ANIMATION OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>Cars</i> is a well-rounded and predictable tale filled with excitement at the racetracks, writes Tumi Makgetla.
The Encounters documentary film festival highlights the responsibility of filmmakers in troubled times, writes Matthew Krouse.
<b>DRAMA OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal reviews Richard E Grant’s <i>Wah-Wah</i>, a labour of love that required much patience and persistence.
The threat to independent book dealers is very real and it is growing, writes Darryl Accone.
Pakistan paid a high price for a series of dropped catches as unbeaten hundreds from Alastair Cook and Paul Collingwood put England in a strong position on the first day of the first Test at Lord’s on Thursday. At stumps England were 309-3 after Cook, dropped three times, and Collingwood, missed once, both scored their second Test centuries.
‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, what’s all this, then? Police are telling booze-fuelled British women to wear nice knickers and wax their bodies, newspapers reported on Thursday. The latest attempt by the police to get hip with the kids is aimed at hammering home a responsible drinking message to irresponsible young women.
A half-smoked cigar enjoyed by Sir Winston Churchill, Britain’s war-time prime minister, was sold at auction on Wednesday for £365 (about R4 800). Churchill had been puffing on the cigar when he arrived for a meeting in Blackpool, north-west England, on October 14 1950.