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/ 19 October 2001

Red-hot, luxuriant love

Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge! is a musical of a kind you’ve never quite seen before. Though set in Paris in 1899, it makes use of a plethora of late-20th-century songs, reworked and often collaged into medleys. The combination of these with the film’s delirious, luxuriant visuals add up to an experience that leaves one somewhat stunned.

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/ 19 October 2001

Showtime waits for no man

A tougher test than the Dane is needed before Lewis John Rawling After battering the gallant though outclassed Brian Nielsen to defeat, Mike Tyson said he needed two more fights before he would be ready to attempt to regain the world heavyweight title. He is probably right, but the television powerbrokers who dictate the course […]

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/ 19 October 2001

Some dangers of prostitution

channel vision Robert Kirby Last week’s Special Assignment on the subject of child prostitution opened with a real stinger. In her usual soulful tones, Annaliese Burgess announced that permission to have themselves filmed, interviewed and transmitted had been granted by a collection of child prostitutes. What seems not to have struck Annaliese or her reporters […]

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/ 19 October 2001

Starved of recognition

Matthew Burbidge Top hotel chefs in Gauteng feel like frustrated artists: no one appreciates their work, South Africans just want bigger slices and they’ll never be really, really rich, they moaned in the Hyatt’s kitchen this week. Seven chefs, or sevens stars, as they are called, from the South African Chefs’ Association are performing at […]

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/ 19 October 2001

Stop this madman

Who does Robert Mugabe think he is, that he can take over businesses as well? He is a thief, a low-life, someone who looks at others’ possessions with envy and then plots to steal them. I am repulsed to have such an immoral man claiming to be the leader of Zimbabwe. He must have no […]