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/ 19 October 2001
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
Some of the world’s top young DJs are in town for Yfm and 5fm birthday bashs, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 19 October 2001
The controversial painting of a black Christ is back in South Africa and has found a permanent home at the South African Gallery, writes Charlene Alexander.
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/ 19 October 2001
Not quite the movie of the week: Nicolas Cage as Captain Corelli pretty much sinks what is otherwise a fairly watchable movie, and undoes the hard work of the script and the direction, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 19 October 2001
Actual judgement day, the documentary <i>Judgement Day</i> suggests, comes when people have to decide whether to opt for war or peace, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 19 October 2001
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
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
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
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 […]